Llm Engineer Salary

Based on 1090 Llm listings with published compensation (2656 total jobs)

$245k
Average
$196k
25th %ile
$230k
Median
$277k
75th %ile

Llm engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. Roles at the 75th percentile ($277k) typically go to senior and lead engineers at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Llm features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Llm roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($196k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 1090 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 2656 total open Llm 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

senior
1014 jobs
$228k avg
lead
711 jobs
$267k avg
mid
551 jobs
$169k avg
principal
223 jobs
$354k avg
junior
157 jobs
$184k avg

Top Paying Companies for Llm

Llm Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
704 jobs
$274k avg
New York, NY
214 jobs
$233k avg
Remote (US)
144 jobs
$222k avg
London, UK
143 jobs
$193k avg
Mountain View, CA
109 jobs
$248k avg
Remote
103 jobs
$229k avg
Bangalore, India
82 jobs
United States
66 jobs
$217k avg
Paris, France
65 jobs
$265k avg
Palo Alto, CA
58 jobs
$247k 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. The percentile breakdowns above (p25, p50 median, p75) are computed over the midpoint of each published range. Experience level percentiles use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level field on the listing. City-level figures require at least 3 open roles in that city for Llm.

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