AI Jobs Paying $150,000+ (2026)

Nearly every listing on this page states its pay. That is what defines the hub: AI roles whose stated US dollar range reaches $150,000 or more, which as of September 2026 comes to 1,267 live listings from the last 60 days, 139 of them posted in the past week. Because pay is printed on 99 percent of them, this is the one place on TixelJobs where the salary filter does exactly what it says.

The median midpoint across the hub is about $222,500 a year, so the $150,000 floor is well below the typical listing. Seniority is spread evenly: 336 mid level, 328 staff or principal, 294 senior and 213 lead, manager or architect. Mid level roles clearing $150,000 are common at the employers that post here, which include OpenAI with 35 open listings, Snowflake with 26, xAI with 21, CoreWeave with 20, Wayve with 17, Faire with 16 and Roku with 15.

Geography is almost entirely American: 742 of the country-tagged listings are in the US, 28 in Canada, and single digits elsewhere, because US employers print ranges far more often than those in Europe or Asia. About 49 percent are remote. By category, machine learning engineering accounts for 365 listings, data engineering 121, MLOps and ML infrastructure 72 and research scientist 55; titles include Engineering Manager for ML and data science, Senior AI Applied Scientist II, AI Compiler Engineer and Staff Data Engineer for analytics.

Search this hub by raising the floor rather than lowering it: /ai-jobs-200k and /ai-jobs-250k are the same view with a higher minimum, and /ai-jobs-100k widens it. Pair the level filter with the category filter to compare pay within a band, which is more informative than the headline median. A listing with no stated pay is excluded here, not necessarily lower paid; the machine learning hub still holds hundreds of senior roles that do not print a number.