Machine Learning Engineer Salary in United States

Machine Learning Engineer jobs in United States hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $258,380/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

United States
AI/ML
Data Science
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
DevOps
Web3
Games
Hardware
Robotics
Security
QA
Executive
Networking
Product
Design
Analytics
Support
Enterprise Apps
Quantum

Eight Sleep

eightsleep.com
Eight Sleep is a sleep technology company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2014. The company sells the Pod, a mattress cover and hardware system that heats and cools each side of a bed, tracks sleep and biometrics, and adjusts temperature automatically through the night. It sells directly to consumers in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, positioning its products around athletic recovery and sleep fitness.
eightsleep.com • HQ: New York, United States • Wellness Programs • Lifestyle • Health Care • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Wellness • Consumer Electronics • Smart Home Devices • Est. 2014
HQ: New York, United States • Wellness Programs • Lifestyle • Health Care • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Wellness • Consumer Electronics • Smart Home Devices • Est. 2014
Verified live · 9 hours ago 7 months ago

ML Research Scientist (Health & Sensing)

$171k – $320k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Middle
C++
Python
AI/ML
LLM
Multimodal AI
NLP
Reinforcement Learning
Self-Supervised Learning
Apply
Verified live · 9 hours ago 7 months ago

Senior ML Operations (MLOps) Engineer

$152k – $273k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Apache Kafka
DynamoDB
AI/ML
Flink
PyTorch
TensorFlow
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon ECS
Amazon Kinesis
Apply
Verified live · 9 hours ago 8 months ago

Machine Learning Engineer (Foundation Models & Personalization)

$128k – $299k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
JAX
LLM
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
RAG
Ray
Spark
TensorFlow
Model Context Protocol
Time Series Forecasting
Federated Learning
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
Apply
Report

Profound

profound.com
Profound is a digital market research service owned by MarketResearch.com, which is based in Rockville, Maryland, and was founded in 1998. The platform aggregates more than one million research reports from over 200 global publishers and features a specialized section slicing tool that allows users to purchase specific chapters, charts, or tables. It operates as a subscription-based business intelligence solution for corporate professionals, academic institutions, and government agencies across nearly 700 industry segments worldwide.
profound.com • HQ: Rockville, United States • Professional Services • Business Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Sales & Marketing • Market Research • Est. 1998
HQ: Rockville, United States • Professional Services • Business Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Sales & Marketing • Market Research • Est. 1998
Open 189 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

AI Strategist, Team Lead

$180k – $280k per year • Lead • 6+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
SQL
AI/ML
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
LLM
Perplexity
Analytics
Tableau
Design
Figma
Apply
Open 361 dayTop 25% pay 12 months ago

AI/ML Engineer

$160k – $250k per year • In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
SQL
AI/ML
ChatGPT
LLM
NLP
Perplexity
RAG
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Red Teaming
Design
Figma
Apply
Report

Adaptivesecurity

adaptivesecurity.com
Adaptive Security is the human security platform for the AI era — protecting 1,000+ companies worldwide against deepfakes, AI phishing, and social engineering attacks.
adaptivesecurity.com • New York • Sydney • London • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity
New York • Sydney • London • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity
Open 189 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

$146k – $283k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years expIn office (New York, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Java
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AWS Bedrock
PyTorch
Spark
TensorFlow
Amazon SageMaker
OpenAI
DevOps
AWS
Apply
Report

NeoSigma

neosigma.ai
NeoSigma is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company focused on self-improving agentic systems. Built by research and engineering leaders formerly at OpenAI, Sierra, and Google, the platform provides an automated harness and runtime evaluation layer that enables AI agents to continuously learn from production failures.
neosigma.ai • San Francisco • Bengaluru
San Francisco • Bengaluru
Open 192 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Intern

Intern • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Intern
LLM
OpenAI
Post-training
AI Agents
Apply
Open 199 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - AI Engineer

$195k – $337k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
LLM
OpenAI
Post-training
AI Agents
Apply
Report

Sanity.io

sanity.io
Sanity is the back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
sanity.io • London • San Francisco • Oslo • New York • Operating Systems • Cybersecurity • Commerce
London • San Francisco • Oslo • New York • Operating Systems • Cybersecurity • Commerce
Open 199 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, AI Growth

$156k – $303k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Braintrust
ChatGPT
Claude
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Anthropic
OpenAI
Cursor
GPT-5
Lovable
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Vercel
Heroku
Netlify
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
Apply
Report

RISA Labs

risalabs.ai
AI-powered operating system for oncology. Automate workflows, reduce treatment delays, and accelerate care delivery. Book a demo with RISA Labs.
risalabs.ai • Bengaluru • New York • Palo Alto • Digital Health • Artificial Intelligence • Medical AI • Est. 2024
Bengaluru • New York • Palo Alto • Digital Health • Artificial Intelligence • Medical AI • Est. 2024
Open 231 dayVerified live · 1 day ago 8 months ago

AI Engineer

$105k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (Palo Alto, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Junior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
NLP
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
TensorFlow
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
Report

Generalist

generalist.com
The people, companies, and technologies shaping the future. Click to read The Generalist, by Mario Gabriele, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
generalist.com • San Francisco • Boston
San Francisco • Boston
Open 200 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Research Scientist: Post-Training

$240k – $350k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
ChatGPT
Fine-tuning
Gemini
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Synthetic Data
GPT-4
OpenAI
Post-training
Robotics
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Apply
Open 200 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Research Scientist: Pretraining

$240k – $350k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
ChatGPT
Diffusion Models
Gemini
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
GPT-4
OpenAI
Apply
Open 200 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Software Engineer: ML Optimization

$200k – $350k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
ChatGPT
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Gemini
Multimodal AI
NumPy
GPT-4
NVLink
OpenAI
Apply
Report

HeyGen

heygen.com
HeyGen is a company founded in 2020 that generates presenter videos from text using synthetic avatars and cloned voices. Its translation feature re-voices existing footage in other languages while matching lip movement, which made it popular with marketing and training teams. The company reports fast revenue growth serving businesses that produce large volumes of localised video.
heygen.com • HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Semiconductors • Embedded Systems • Cybersecurity • Est. 2020
HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Semiconductors • Embedded Systems • Cybersecurity • Est. 2020
Open 319 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 11 months ago

Tech Lead, AI Compute Infrastructure

$118k – $282k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years expIn office (Los Angeles, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
Databases
LanceDB
AI/ML
Accelerate
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Ray
Spark
TensorFlow
Scale AI
Diffusion Models
NCCL
DevOps
Kubernetes
HPC
Apply
Open 977 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 3 years ago

Research Engineer

$70k – $208k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 1+ year expIn office (Los Angeles, United States) • Master's Degree • Junior
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Diffusion Models
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Apply
Report

CesiumAstro

cesiumastro.com
CesiumAstro is an aerospace technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas, and founded in 2017. The company develops and manufactures software-defined active phased array communication systems, including satellites, terminals, and reconfigurable processing units for space, airborne, and ground missions. It serves commercial and defense sectors with high-throughput connectivity solutions and operates manufacturing facilities in the United States to support domestic supply chains.
cesiumastro.com • HQ: Austin, United States • Telecommunications • Aerospace Manufacturing • Manufacturing • Military Satellites • Military • Satellite Manufacturing • Satellite Communications • Space & Aerospace • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2017
HQ: Austin, United States • Telecommunications • Aerospace Manufacturing • Manufacturing • Military Satellites • Military • Satellite Manufacturing • Satellite Communications • Space & Aerospace • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2017
Verified live · 2 hours ago 7 months ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer II

$135k – $263k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (Austin, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
Report

Canopy

getcanopy.com
To empower accountants to spend more of their time helping their clients succeed, and to provide our employees with an amazing place to work.
getcanopy.com • Detroit • Digital Signature • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Higher Education
Detroit • Digital Signature • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Higher Education
Open 218 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 8 months ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

$126k – $180k per year • Senior • 5+ years expDetroit • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
MATLAB
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Edge AI
ONNX
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
GCP
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
Apply
Report

Uncountable

uncountable.com
Uncountable is the AI platform that unifies R&D, QC, and PLM data across the full product lifecycle — for traceability, compliance, and faster decisions.
uncountable.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • CAD & PLM • Artificial Intelligence • Software
HQ: San Francisco, United States • CAD & PLM • Artificial Intelligence • Software
Open 225 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

LLM Applications Engineer

$130k – $175k per year • Junior • 2+ years expRemote/Hybrid (New York, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
JavaScript
Python
SQL
TypeScript
Python
Flask
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Haystack
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Redux
Sass
Apply
Report

Runway

runway.team
Runway is a mobile release management company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2020. The company builds a platform that coordinates app store releases, automating build tracking, regression checks, staged rollouts, and the cross-team communication that surrounds a mobile launch. It integrates with the app stores, continuous integration systems, issue trackers, and chat tools that mobile teams already use, and went through Y Combinator.
runway.team • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Project Management • Information Technology • DevOps • Software • Mobile App Development • Est. 2020
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Project Management • Information Technology • DevOps • Software • Mobile App Development • Est. 2020
Open 234 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer

$270k – $370k per year • Staff+ • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
JAX
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Runway
Post-training
SFT
Apply
Open 691 dayTop 25% pay 2 years ago

Research Engineer, Data Foundations

$270k – $370k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Multimodal AI
Synthetic Data
JAX
PyTorch
Ray
Runway
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
Open 1585 daysTop 25% pay 4 years ago

Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research Scientist

$260k – $370k per year • Staff+ • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Computer Vision
CUDA Toolkit
PyTorch
Runway
TensorFlow
CUDA
Human-in-the-Loop
Apply
Report

Tensorlake

tensorlake.ai
Sandboxes for AI agents. Securely run untrusted, LLM-generated code in isolated Firecracker microVM sandboxes that scale from one to thousands — with snapshot, suspend/resume, and durable orchestration.
tensorlake.ai • San Francisco • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents
San Francisco • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents
Open 235 daysVerified live · 9 hours ago 8 months ago

Senior Applied Research Scientist – Core AI & Document Intelligence

$104k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (Canada, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Fine-tuning
LLM
LoRA
Multimodal AI
NLP
PyTorch
Quantization
RAG
PEFT
Context Engineering
AI Agents
Apply
Report

Inference

inference.ai
Models. Agents. GPUs. Whatever you need — we've got it. Ghost agent VMs, Maestro model routing, Engine wholesale GPUs, and Academy, on one platform.
inference.ai • San Francisco
San Francisco
Open 238 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Machine Learning Researcher

$250k – $350k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Transformers
TRL
DPO
GPT-5
Hugging Face
Megatron-LM
Post-training
SFT
Multimodal AI
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
Open 238 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Applied Machine Learning Engineer

$220k – $320k per year • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
Axolotl
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
PyTorch
Transformers
GPT-5
Hugging Face
Post-training
SFT
Multimodal AI
DevOps
GitHub
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
Report

Prompthealth

prompthealth.com
Prompt is a healthcare software company focused on electronic medical records, with a particular emphasis on making clinical documentation and practice workflows simpler and more efficient. From its positioning, the product is designed to help clinicians capture patient information accurately, reduce the time spent on admin, and keep records organised in a way that supports day to day care. For job seekers, this points to a business working on practical problems that sit right at the intersection of software usability, clinical reality, and regulatory expectations.
prompthealth.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Physical Therapy • Health Care
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Physical Therapy • Health Care
$160k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
SQLAlchemy
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
RAG
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
Hybrid Search
Streamlit
LLM Evaluation
DevOps
Amazon EC2
AWS
Docker
Amazon S3
Vector
Apply
Open 238 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer (Natural Language Systems)

$160k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
SQLAlchemy
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
NLP
Recommender Systems
Text-to-Speech
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Amazon EC2
AWS
Docker
Amazon S3
CI/CD
Apply
Report

FAR

far.ai
FAR.AI is an AI safety nonprofit advancing technical research across robustness, deception, and red-teaming to ensure AI systems remain safe and beneficial.
far.ai • Berkeley • LLM & Generative AI • Cybersecurity AI • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Berkeley • LLM & Generative AI • Cybersecurity AI • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Open 245 daysVerified live · 9 hours ago 9 months ago

Research Engineer

$100k – $190k per year • Remote/Hybrid (Berkeley, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Accelerate
ChatGPT
Claude
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
TensorFlow
Transformers
GPT-5
Hugging Face
OpenAI
Post-training
Apply
Open 278 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago

Senior Research Engineer

$150k – $250k per year • Senior • In office (Berkeley, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
ChatGPT
Claude
CUDA Toolkit
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
CUDA
GPT-5
OpenAI
Post-training
DevOps
Kubernetes
SLURM
Apply
Open 528 daysVerified live · 9 hours ago 1 year ago

Research Scientist

$120k – $190k per year • Senior • Remote/Hybrid (Berkeley, United States) • Visa sponsorship • PhD • Full-Time
ChatGPT
Claude
Fine-tuning
GPT-5
OpenAI
Post-training
Apply
Report

HammerHead AI

hammerheadco.ai
ORCA platform boosts token output by 30% by orchestrating power, cooling, and compute systems in AI factories.
hammerheadco.ai • Redwood City
Redwood City
Open 256 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 9 months ago

Reinforcement Learning Engineer

$153k – $288k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (Redwood City, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
PyTorch
Ray
RLlib
TensorFlow
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
Isaac Gym
Apply
Report

KREA

krea.ai
KREA is a company founded in 2022 that builds real-time generative visual tools for designers and artists. Its canvas updates images as the user sketches or types, and the product bundles upscaling, style training and video generation across multiple underlying models. It became popular with creative professionals who wanted control and speed rather than one-shot prompting.
krea.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: San Francisco, United States • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
Open 258 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 9 months ago

ML Engineer - Personalization & Recommendation Systems

$161k – $353k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
JAX
PyTorch
Recommender Systems
Diffusion Models
Embeddings
Apply
Open 396 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$164k – $360k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Diffusion Models
Apply
Report

Argmax

argmax.org
Patrick van der Smagt - Publications. Publications list generated from BibTeX. Click on any title to search on Google Scholar.
argmax.org • Palo Alto • Robotics • Artificial Intelligence
Palo Alto • Robotics • Artificial Intelligence
Open 281 day 10 months ago

On-device AI Frameworks Engineer (Intern)

Intern • 1+ year expIn office (Palo Alto, United States) • Internship • Intern
C++
Kotlin
Swift
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Edge AI
MLX ML
ONNX
Frontend
WebGPU
Mobile
Core ML
Apply
Open 306 days 11 months ago

On-device AI Frameworks Engineer (Staff)

$176k – $304k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 5+ years expIn office (Palo Alto, United States) • Staff
Python
Swift
JavaScript
Kotlin
AI/ML
MLX ML
ONNX
Edge AI
Frontend
WebGPU
Mobile
Core ML
Apply
Report

Epistemix

epistemix.com
Epistemix is a world model of your market: see how adoption spreads person by person, test strategy before you spend, and track the assumptions it rests on.
epistemix.com • Data & Analytics • Data Science
Data & Analytics • Data Science
Open 266 days 9 months ago

AI Engineer

$116k – $235k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
SQLAlchemy
Databases
FAISS
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
LLM
NLP
RAG
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Apply
Report
Machine Learning Engineer Salary in United States
Frequently asked questions
How many Machine Learning Engineer jobs in United States are available on Alion?
There are currently 3452 active listings from 866 hiring companies on Alion, refreshed daily.
What salary do Machine Learning Engineer jobs in United States pay?
The average salary is around $258,380 per year based on the current listings.
Are remote options available for Machine Learning Engineer jobs in United States?
Yes, many of these roles offer remote or hybrid work, and you can filter listings by remote, relocation and visa sponsorship.
How do I apply for Machine Learning Engineer jobs in United States?
Open any listing on Alion and apply directly with the employer through the provided link - no lengthy sign-up required.