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Median advertised pay for AI, ML, LLM and data-science roles — drill into a specialization, country or seniority and the numbers update from live postings.
As of 2026-07-28, the median advertised salary for Core AI Engineering roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $130,000 – $225,000/yr (USD), across 3,227 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).
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Core AI Engineering roles
Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 3,227 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.
n=3,227 · as of 2026-07-28 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗
Salary distributionwithin Core AI Engineering roles
Most common advertised floor: $75K–$100K — 544 of 3,227 disclosed-pay postings.
Median floor by senioritywithin Core AI Engineering
Lead-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $197,300 (n=313).
Median floor by specializationwithin all AI roles
ML Systems and Inference pays the highest median floor ($159K); AI Safety and Evaluation the lowest ($105K).
Salary coverage by countryshare of postings with a salary range
United States leads salary coverage at 82.2%; 17 other markets are not yet covered.
Top-paying skillswithin Core AI Engineering roles
NVIDIA NeMo tops skill pay in this slice — $229,900 median floor (n=163).
Remote vs onsitewithin Core AI Engineering roles
Remote postings advertise a comparable median floor but a 13% lower median ceiling than onsite ($200K vs $231K).
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ML/AI Work, "AI & ML salary benchmarks — Core AI Engineering roles", dataset v2026.06, n=3227, as of 2026-07-28. https://mlai.work/salaries