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

$140K–$193K

Based on 154 listings

Full-time roles only.

Remote

+premium

$151K–$200K

Based on 32 listings

On-site / Hybrid

$138K–$191K

Based on 122 listings

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

Stack	Range	Avg max	Roles
1Transformers	$155K – $254K	$254K	2
2Rust	$180K – $244K	$244K	4
3Spark	$170K – $212K	$212K	8
4TypeScript	$147K – $203K	$203K	43
5LangGraph	$142K – $199K	$199K	66
6Java	$120K – $199K	$199K	29
7Hugging Face	$123K – $199K	$199K	29
8Docker	$153K – $198K	$198K	43
9LLMs	$142K – $197K	$197K	140
10Kubernetes	$145K – $197K	$197K	42
11Anthropic	$135K – $197K	$197K	54
12GCP	$146K – $196K	$196K	41
13Airflow	$152K – $196K	$196K	10
14Vector DB	$163K – $194K	$194K	9
15dbt	$129K – $194K	$194K	5

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

Weekly digest with salary data included on every listing.