Pre-Training Engineer Salary

Based on 69 Pre-Training listings with published compensation (164 total jobs)

$336k
Average
$100k
Low Posted
69
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 69 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 164 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
68 jobs
$330k avg
senior
38 jobs
$250k avg
mid
36 jobs
$193k avg
principal
15 jobs
$504k avg
junior
7 jobs

Top Paying Companies for Pre-Training

Pre-Training Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
68 jobs
$369k avg
Mountain View, CA
13 jobs
$270k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
10 jobs
$316k avg
Palo Alto, CA
8 jobs
$287k avg
London, UK
8 jobs
Seoul, South Korea
7 jobs
Paris, France
5 jobs
$265k avg
New York, NY
5 jobs
$365k avg
San Jose, CA
4 jobs
$300k avg
Heidelberg
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. 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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