NLP Engineer Salary

Based on 115 NLP listings with published compensation (323 total jobs)

$231k
Average
$82k
Low Posted
115
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 $82k 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 115 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 323 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
115 jobs
$229k avg
lead
85 jobs
$263k avg
mid
61 jobs
$156k avg
junior
39 jobs
$179k avg
principal
23 jobs
$334k avg

Top Paying Companies for NLP

NLP Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
52 jobs
$248k avg
London, UK
26 jobs
$312k avg
Remote
19 jobs
$226k avg
New York, NY
16 jobs
$241k avg
Seattle, WA
14 jobs
$208k avg
Mountain View, CA
14 jobs
$247k avg
Remote (US)
13 jobs
$212k avg
Bangalore, India
12 jobs
United States
10 jobs
$231k avg
Palo Alto, CA
9 jobs
$213k 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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