AI Jobs Paying $50,000+ (2026)

Do not let the number in the title mislead you. The $50,000 floor is so far below what AI employers actually print that this hub is, in practice, every listing on TixelJobs with a stated US dollar salary: 1,854 live roles as of September 2026, 96 percent of them priced, with a median midpoint of about $201,850 a year. Junior and support roles that pay near the floor exist, such as an AI Product Support Specialist in the US, but they are the exception on the page.

The employers are the same ones that lead the higher salary hubs, which is the point: OpenAI has 35 priced listings, Snowflake 29, CoreWeave 22, Telus Digital 22, xAI 21, and Roku and Tenstorrent 20 each. Machine learning engineering accounts for 482 listings, data engineering 199, robotics and embodied AI 96 and MLOps 84. Titles range from Senior Machine Learning Engineer and AI Compiler Engineer to Engineering Manager for ML and data science.

Because stated pay is mostly an American habit, 1,007 of the country-tagged listings are in the US and 74 in Canada, with the UK, France and Germany in single or low double digits. Half of the listings are remote. Seniority covers the whole ladder: 618 mid level, 438 senior, 351 staff or principal and 328 lead, manager or architect, and 196 listings were posted in the past week.

The right way to use this page is as a starting point for the minimum salary filter. Raise the floor to $100,000 or $150,000 with the filter, or jump straight to /ai-jobs-100k and /ai-jobs-150k, and the set shrinks toward the roles that match your band. If you came here looking for genuinely junior AI work, /entry-level-ai-jobs and /ai-internships are the honest answer; most of those listings do not state pay at all, which is exactly why they are missing from this one.