AI Engineer Salary in 2025

💰 The median AI Engineer Salary in 2025 is USD 170,000

✏️ This salary info is based on 853 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average AI Engineer salary lies between USD 119,650 and USD 223,400 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
AI Engineer
Experience
all levels
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
853
Top 10%
$ 280,000
Top 25%
$ 223,400
Median
$ 170,000
Bottom 25%
$ 119,650
Bottom 10%
$ 80,000

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for AI Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with AI Engineer job listings are Python, Engineering and Machine Learning. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Python | 1781 jobs Engineering | 1753 jobs Machine Learning | 1686 jobs LLMs | 1212 jobs Computer Science | 1165 jobs AWS | 979 jobs Generative AI | 970 jobs Azure | 901 jobs Research | 855 jobs Pipelines | 851 jobs PyTorch | 840 jobs Architecture | 826 jobs TensorFlow | 756 jobs APIs | 742 jobs NLP | 707 jobs GCP | 654 jobs ML models | 614 jobs Security | 591 jobs RAG | 571 jobs MLOps | 514 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for AI Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with AI Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Startup environment. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 1594 jobs Health care | 697 jobs Startup environment | 536 jobs Flex hours | 519 jobs Competitive pay | 504 jobs Equity / stock options | 407 jobs Team events | 306 jobs Flex vacation | 294 jobs Salary bonus | 264 jobs Insurance | 260 jobs Parental leave | 258 jobs Medical leave | 199 jobs 401(k) matching | 170 jobs Wellness | 142 jobs Transparency | 107 jobs Conferences | 86 jobs Fitness / gym | 76 jobs Gear | 61 jobs Home office stipend | 57 jobs Relocation support | 53 jobs

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