Data from 1000 live listings

AI Engineer Salary Guide 2026

Real compensation data pulled from active AI engineering job postings — not surveys. Full-time salaries are annual. Contract rates are hourly.

By job type

Full-time salaries are annual. Contract rates are per hour.

Full-time

$144K–$206K

Based on 169 listings

Full-time roles only.

Remote

+premium

$149K–$209K

Based on 37 listings

On-site / Hybrid

$142K–$205K

Based on 132 listings

Full-time roles only, averaged across all seniority levels.

Stack	Range	Avg max	Roles
1Qdrant	$207K – $320K	$320K	3
2C++	$178K – $300K	$300K	2
3Spark	$187K – $290K	$290K	3
4Rust	$190K – $275K	$275K	3
5Go	$169K – $254K	$254K	35
6PostgreSQL	$160K – $244K	$244K	13
7Hugging Face	$151K – $243K	$243K	24
8Ray	$137K – $237K	$237K	3
9Java	$147K – $230K	$230K	20
10PyTorch	$156K – $230K	$230K	20
11TypeScript	$154K – $230K	$230K	57
12MLflow	$175K – $220K	$220K	5
13Airflow	$145K – $218K	$218K	11
14TensorFlow	$143K – $208K	$208K	16
15Vector DB	$152K – $208K	$208K	6

Salaries are averages across all seniority levels and company sizes from active listings.

Weekly digest with salary data included on every listing.