Inference Engineer Salary

Based on 56 Inference listings with published compensation (115 total jobs)

$257k
Average
$92k
Low Posted
56
With Salary
$850k
High Posted

Inference engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $92k to $850k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Inference features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 56 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 115 total open Inference roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

lead
48 jobs
$286k avg
senior
32 jobs
$209k avg
mid
23 jobs
$146k avg
principal
7 jobs
$345k avg
junior
5 jobs
$368k avg

Top Paying Companies for Inference

Inference Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
45 jobs
$306k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
8 jobs
$173k avg
London, UK
7 jobs
San Jose, CA
7 jobs
$248k avg
Palo Alto, CA
5 jobs
$269k avg
New York, NY
4 jobs
$166k avg
Remote
4 jobs
$196k avg
Toronto, Canada
3 jobs
Mountain View, CA
3 jobs
$238k avg
Remote (US)
3 jobs
$184k avg

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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