Machine Learning Engineer Salary

Based on 302 Machine Learning listings with published compensation (589 total jobs)

$242k
Average
$90k
Low Posted
302
With Salary
$850k
High Posted
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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 $90k 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 302 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 589 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
219 jobs
$221k avg
lead
169 jobs
$271k avg
mid
123 jobs
$173k avg
junior
46 jobs
$204k avg
principal
32 jobs
$336k avg

Top Paying Companies for Machine Learning

Machine Learning Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
101 jobs
$271k avg
Remote (US)
62 jobs
$243k avg
Mountain View, CA
43 jobs
$248k avg
New York, NY
42 jobs
$230k avg
London, UK
33 jobs
Boston, MA
27 jobs
$197k avg
San Mateo, CA
19 jobs
$267k avg
United States
17 jobs
$271k avg
Foster City, CA
16 jobs
$264k avg
Toronto, Canada
15 jobs
$200k 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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