Machine Learning Engineer Salary

Based on 306 Machine Learning listings with published compensation (646 total jobs)

$244k
Average
$75k
Low Posted
306
With Salary
$850k
High Posted

Machine Learning engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $75k to $850k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Machine Learning features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 306 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 646 total open Machine Learning 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
232 jobs
$227k avg
lead
160 jobs
$270k avg
mid
141 jobs
$167k avg
junior
75 jobs
$199k avg
principal
38 jobs
$336k avg

Top Paying Companies for Machine Learning

Machine Learning Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
127 jobs
$263k avg
Mountain View, CA
55 jobs
$253k avg
Remote (US)
52 jobs
$244k avg
New York, NY
45 jobs
$242k avg
London, UK
40 jobs
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Boston, MA
25 jobs
$199k avg
United States
22 jobs
$216k avg
San Mateo, CA
21 jobs
$309k avg
Palo Alto, CA
19 jobs
$273k avg
Remote
14 jobs
$224k 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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