Salary data

AI-native salaries & total comp by role

How total compensation is structured for AI-native roles — base, equity, and bonus by level — computed from live postings, not self-reported surveys. Pick a role for percentiles, seniority bands, and who's hiring.

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AI Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

What AI engineers earn at AI-native companies, by level — base, equity, and the premium for shipping LLM systems in production.

Median $210kRead

Machine Learning Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

ML engineer total compensation across AI-native employers, from training-pipeline roles to applied modelling and MLOps.

Median $205kRead

AI Product Manager Salary & Total Compensation

AI product manager pay by level — what PMs earn shipping AI-native products, and how equity skews the headline number.

Median $215kRead

Forward-Deployed Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

Forward-deployed engineer compensation — the customer-facing build role that AI labs pay a premium for.

Median $220kRead

Applied AI Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

Applied AI engineer salaries — building product features on top of foundation models across AI-native teams.

Median $200kRead

Research Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

Research engineer total comp at the frontier labs — among the highest-paid AI-native roles, equity-heavy at senior levels.

Median $245kRead

LLM Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

LLM engineer pay — specialists in prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, and serving large language models.

Median $215kRead

MLOps Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

MLOps engineer compensation — the infrastructure roles that keep training and inference reliable and cheap.

Median $195kRead

Data Scientist Salary & Total Compensation

Data scientist salaries at AI-native companies — analytics, experimentation, and applied modelling roles.

Median $185kRead

AI Solutions Architect Salary & Total Compensation

AI solutions architect pay — pre- and post-sales technical roles that design AI deployments for customers.

Median $205kRead

Computer Vision Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

Computer vision engineer compensation across AI-native robotics, autonomy, and multimodal teams.

Median $200kRead

AI Safety Engineer Salary & Total Compensation

AI safety engineer pay — alignment, evals, and red-teaming roles at the frontier labs, equity-heavy and scarce.

Median $230kRead