Salary for Entry-level / Junior Machine Learning Engineer during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Entry-level / Junior Machine Learning Engineer during 2025 is USD 140,550

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The average entry-level / junior Machine Learning Engineer salary lies between USD 98,300 and USD 218,540 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
Machine Learning Engineer
Experience
Entry-level / Junior
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
50
Top 10%
$ 218,540
Top 25%
$ 218,540
Median
$ 140,550
Bottom 25%
$ 98,300
Bottom 10%
$ 60,842

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 Entry-level / Junior Machine Learning Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with entry-level / junior Machine Learning Engineer job listings are Machine Learning, Python and Engineering. 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:

Machine Learning | 282 jobs Python | 178 jobs Engineering | 158 jobs Computer Science | 144 jobs Research | 109 jobs PyTorch | 103 jobs ML models | 98 jobs TensorFlow | 92 jobs NLP | 84 jobs LLMs | 84 jobs PhD | 83 jobs Pipelines | 75 jobs Deep Learning | 73 jobs Computer Vision | 60 jobs Statistics | 60 jobs AWS | 58 jobs E-commerce | 52 jobs Scikit-learn | 50 jobs Docker | 50 jobs SQL | 49 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Entry-level / Junior Machine Learning Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with entry-level / junior Machine Learning Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Team events. 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 | 212 jobs Health care | 69 jobs Team events | 63 jobs Startup environment | 59 jobs Flex hours | 46 jobs Equity / stock options | 38 jobs Competitive pay | 34 jobs Salary bonus | 24 jobs Conferences | 23 jobs Medical leave | 23 jobs Flex vacation | 20 jobs Transparency | 18 jobs Insurance | 17 jobs Relocation support | 15 jobs Wellness | 13 jobs Parental leave | 11 jobs 401(k) matching | 9 jobs Fitness / gym | 9 jobs Lunch / meals | 8 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 8 jobs

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