Pre-Training Engineer Salary

Based on 84 Pre-Training listings with published compensation (204 total jobs)

$308k
Average
$100k
Low Posted
84
With Salary
$850k
High Posted

Pre-Training 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 $850k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Pre-Training features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 84 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 204 total open Pre-Training 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

lead
76 jobs
$313k avg
senior
52 jobs
$244k avg
mid
42 jobs
$195k avg
principal
17 jobs
$535k avg
junior
17 jobs
$225k avg

Top Paying Companies for Pre-Training

Pre-Training Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
102 jobs
$324k avg
Mountain View, CA
17 jobs
$236k avg
London, UK
12 jobs
—
Sunnyvale, CA
8 jobs
$287k avg
Amsterdam, Netherlands
7 jobs
—
Paris, France
6 jobs
$265k avg
New York, NY
6 jobs
$374k avg
Palo Alto, CA
4 jobs
$269k avg
Remote
4 jobs
—
Shanghai
3 jobs
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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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