High Paying AI Jobs (2026)

High paying here has a definition: the listing states a salary range whose lower end is at least $150,000 a year. That excludes anything unpriced, however generous it might turn out to be, and it is why 99 percent of the roughly 1,270 live listings in this hub carry a US dollar figure. Across them the median midpoint is about $222,500 as of September 2026, and about 139 new priced listings landed in the past week.

Staff and principal roles are almost as numerous as mid level ones, 328 against 336, with 294 senior and 213 lead, manager or architect, so this is the hub where experienced engineers will see the most relevant volume. Machine learning engineer is the largest category at 365, then data engineer at 121, MLOps and ML infrastructure at 72 and research scientist at 55. Titles include senior AI applied scientist, AI compiler engineer, staff data engineer for analytics and engineering manager for ML and data science.

OpenAI posts the most roles above the threshold with 35, followed by Snowflake, xAI, CoreWeave, Wayve, Faire and Roku. Frontier labs and GPU cloud providers are well represented, but so are a marketplace, a self driving company and a streaming platform. The US accounts for 742 of the located listings and Canada 28, with almost nothing outside North America, which reflects where salary disclosure is required rather than where high pay exists. Forty nine percent are flagged remote.

Sort by Highest Salary to read from the top down, add Category to compare disciplines, or move to the $200K+, $250K+ or $300K+ hubs for a stricter floor. For senior roles without the salary requirement, the senior AI jobs and staff AI jobs hubs are the broader pools.