AI Jobs Paying $200,000+ (2026)

Every listing in this hub carries a stated pay range whose midpoint reaches $200,000 a year, which is why 98 percent of them show a figure. As of September 2026 there are about 540 such jobs, the median midpoint across them is around $256,500, and about 60 were posted in the past week. This is one of the few pages on the board where the salary column is the first thing to read rather than the last.

OpenAI is the most frequent employer here with about 27 listings, followed by Snowflake, Wayve, Faire, Figure AI, Biohub, Asana and Roku. The list mixes frontier labs, data platforms, autonomy and robotics companies, biology research and consumer software. The country list contains only the US, with about 310 listings, and Canada with about 10, because stated USD ranges at this level are rare elsewhere.

Staff and principal roles are the largest band at about 180, but mid level roles are second at about 120, ahead of lead or manager at about 90 and senior at about 85. A $200,000 midpoint is therefore not reserved for the most senior titles; several of the most recent postings are plain senior machine learning engineer roles. Machine learning engineer is by far the largest category at about 195, with data engineer, research scientist and MLOps each between 20 and 30. Just under half the listings are tagged remote.

To use this hub well, add the category filter to see which specialties reach the threshold, and the level filter to check whether your experience band is represented. The $250K plus and $300K plus hubs are stricter cuts of the same data, and the $150K plus hub is broader. Because these are stated ranges, compare midpoints rather than the top of the band.