LLM Engineer Salary

Based on 1203 LLM listings with published compensation (2937 total jobs)

$252k
Average
$70k
Low Posted
1203
With Salary
$850k
High Posted

LLM engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $70k to $850k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping LLM features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 1203 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 2937 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
1030 jobs
$229k avg
lead
887 jobs
$273k avg
mid
537 jobs
$170k avg
principal
259 jobs
$370k avg
junior
224 jobs
$189k avg

Top Paying Companies for LLM

LLM Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
843 jobs
$284k avg
New York, NY
289 jobs
$241k avg
London, UK
150 jobs
$237k avg
Remote (US)
149 jobs
$225k avg
Remote
111 jobs
$206k avg
Mountain View, CA
110 jobs
$255k avg
United States
71 jobs
$220k avg
Bangalore, India
70 jobs
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Paris, France
60 jobs
$265k avg
Palo Alto, CA
49 jobs
$265k 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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