Inference Engineer Salary

Based on 49 Inference listings with published compensation (154 total jobs)

$282k
Average
$92k
Low Posted
49
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 49 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 154 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
59 jobs
$302k avg
senior
44 jobs
$231k avg
mid
35 jobs
$121k avg
principal
11 jobs
$439k avg
junior
5 jobs
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Top Paying Companies for Inference

Inference Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
49 jobs
$341k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
26 jobs
$187k avg
London, UK
11 jobs
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San Jose, CA
8 jobs
$236k avg
United States and Canada
7 jobs
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Mountain View, CA
5 jobs
$301k avg
Palo Alto, CA
5 jobs
$269k avg
New York, NY
4 jobs
$166k avg
Remote
4 jobs
$196k avg
Toronto, Canada
3 jobs
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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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