AI and Machine Learning Salaries & Job Market in the United States (2026)
The average AI and Machine Learning pay in the United States is USD 158,034-USD 217,232 per year, based on 64 disclosed salaries.
Average salary by pay period
- Annual: USD 158,034-USD 217,232 per year (44 listings)
- Hourly: USD 3,731-USD 6,523 per hour (20 listings)
Best cities for AI and Machine Learning jobs
- San Francisco — 53 jobs
- San Jose — 39 jobs
- New York City — 25 jobs
- Boston — 21 jobs
- Seattle — 13 jobs
- Redmond — 9 jobs
- Bellevue — 9 jobs
- Foster City — 8 jobs
Work mode
17% remote, 0% hybrid, 83% on-site across 290 listings.
Top hiring employers
- Amazon (40 open roles)
- Waymo (26 open roles)
- Stripe (18 open roles)
- Scale AI (16 open roles)
- Klaviyo (14 open roles)
- Roku (13 open roles)
Current openings
- Senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer (US) — PointClickCare (Remote - US)
- Marketing Automation Manager, AI Journey — Okta Canada (Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- Sr. Manager, AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) — Databricks Canada (Remote - California)
- Staff Security Software Engineer, AI Security Engineering — Databricks Canada (Remote - California)
- Sr. Technology Partner Director - AI Code-Gen & Apps — Databricks Canada (Remote - California; San Francisco, California)
- Senior Staff Backline Engineer - Data & AI — Databricks Canada (Dallas, Texas; San Francisco, California; Vancouver, Canada)
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents — Okta Canada (Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents — Okta Canada (Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- AI Journey Operations Manager — Okta Canada (Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training — Airbnb Canada (Remote - USA)
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