Reinforcement Learning Engineer Salary

Based on 252 Reinforcement Learning listings with published compensation (592 total jobs)

$270k
Average
$213k
25th %ile
$245k
Median
$300k
75th %ile

Reinforcement Learning engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. Roles at the 75th percentile ($300k) typically go to senior and lead engineers at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Reinforcement Learning features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Reinforcement Learning roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($213k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 252 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 592 total open Reinforcement Learning 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
167 jobs
$231k avg
lead
159 jobs
$288k avg
mid
130 jobs
$172k avg
principal
91 jobs
$409k avg
junior
45 jobs
$210k avg

Top Paying Companies for Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
167 jobs
$300k avg
Munich, Germany
57 jobs
Mountain View, CA
41 jobs
$245k avg
London, UK
33 jobs
New York, NY
29 jobs
$270k avg
Berlin, Germany
18 jobs
Remote (US)
17 jobs
$239k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
16 jobs
$263k avg
Palo Alto, CA
15 jobs
$310k avg
Redwood City, CA
12 jobs
$226k 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. 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 Reinforcement Learning.

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