Pre Training Engineer Salary

Based on 58 Pre Training listings with published compensation (156 total jobs)

$338k
Average
$262k
25th %ile
$310k
Median
$387k
75th %ile

Pre Training engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. Roles at the 75th percentile ($387k) typically go to senior and lead engineers at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Pre Training features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Pre Training roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($262k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 58 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 156 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
55 jobs
$342k avg
mid
50 jobs
$194k avg
senior
28 jobs
$234k avg
principal
15 jobs
$480k avg
junior
8 jobs
$182k avg

Top Paying Companies for Pre Training

Pre Training Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
63 jobs
$375k avg
Mountain View, CA
11 jobs
$274k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
9 jobs
$292k avg
Paris, France
6 jobs
$265k avg
San Jose, CA
5 jobs
$250k avg
Heidelberg
5 jobs
Remote (Europe)
5 jobs
Amsterdam, Netherlands
4 jobs
Remote
4 jobs
Shanghai
4 jobs

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. The percentile breakdowns above (p25, p50 median, p75) are computed over the midpoint of each published range. Experience level percentiles use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level field on the listing. City-level figures require at least 3 open roles in that city for Pre Training.

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