NLP Engineer Salary

Based on 102 NLP listings with published compensation (310 total jobs)

$237k
Average
$100k
Low Posted
102
With Salary
$500k
High Posted

NLP engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $100k to $500k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping NLP features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 102 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 310 total open NLP 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
114 jobs
$233k avg
lead
80 jobs
$267k avg
junior
49 jobs
$198k avg
mid
46 jobs
$173k avg
principal
21 jobs
$336k avg

Top Paying Companies for NLP

NLP Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
70 jobs
$243k avg
London, UK
23 jobs
—
New York, NY
18 jobs
$246k avg
Remote
18 jobs
$230k avg
Mountain View, CA
18 jobs
$244k avg
Remote (US)
12 jobs
$246k avg
Bangalore, India
11 jobs
—
Palo Alto, CA
9 jobs
$213k avg
Toronto, Canada
9 jobs
$175k avg
Seattle, WA
7 jobs
$243k 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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