Machine Learning Engineer Salaries
The average Machine Learning Engineer salary is $209.1k – $344.9k per year across 162 jobs. Pay ranges from $137.9k – $217.9k for Entry Level roles to $216.5k – $353.2k at the Senior level.
Average salary range
$209.1k – $344.9k
Based on 162 jobs · 23% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$160k
Average
$277.0k
75th percentile
$440k
Machine Learning Engineer salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Level | $137.9k – $217.9k | 5 | +43% |
| Mid Level | $182.3k – $322.9k | 64 | +29% |
| Senior | $216.5k – $353.2k | 81 | +19% |
Top companies for Machine Learning Engineer salaries
10 companies hiring for Machine Learning Engineer roles, ranked by average salary.
xAI
Avg. $180k – $440k · 26 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $320.8k – $467.0k · 21 jobs
Scale
Avg. $210.0k – $267.3k · 18 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $146.0k – $266.5k · 17 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $153.9k – $235.2k · 16 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $267.7k – $393.2k · 11 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $210k – $385k · 6 jobs
Together AI
Avg. $171.7k – $246.7k · 6 jobs
Sesame
Avg. $181k – $296k · 5 jobs
Thinking Machines Lab
Avg. $350k – $475k · 5 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer salaries by location
Average Machine Learning Engineer salaries across 6 locations.
Related skills
Top paying skills across 6 skills.
Related titles
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Avg. $196.3k – $313.3k · 510 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $182.7k – $283.5k · 201 jobs
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $152.5k – $308.9k · 201 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $202.2k – $316.4k · 187 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $190.5k – $311.4k · 161 jobs
AI Engineering
Avg. $201.5k – $311.3k · 134 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer salary FAQs
All salary figures are normalized to USD annual equivalents. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.