AI Agents salaries
Live salary data from first-party AI Agents postings (USD/yr). No surveys — pay ranges employers actually publish.
$286kmedian
$130klow
$34500khigh
173data points
Roles with published pay
Software Engineer, Cloud Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco
$293k–385k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Manager, Partner AI Deployment Engineering - AWS
OpenAI · San Francisco
$251k–335k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent (Brazilian Portuguese speaking)
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$180k–390k/yr
Software Engineer- BIS (Baseten Inference Stack)
Baseten · San Francisco
$180k–360k/yr
Software Engineer, GenAI
Abridge · SF Office
$255k–300k/yr
Agentic Risk Analyst
OpenAI · San Francisco
$288k–425k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Agents
Harvey · New York
$231k–340k/yr
AI Deployment Engineer, Cyber
OpenAI · San Francisco
$234k–260k/yr
Applied AI Engineer
Cognition · San Francisco
$180k–225k/yr
Software Engineer, Agents
Mercor · San Francisco or NYC
$130k–500k/yr
AI Deployment Engineer- Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco
$197k–278k/yr
Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Baseten · San Francisco
$165k–330k/yr
Senior Data Intelligence Engineer
Deepgram · USA | Remote
$165k–230k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–405k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform
Harvey · San Francisco
$185k–325k/yr
IC Agentic Engineering Manager - Stargate
OpenAI · San Francisco
$293k–385k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent
Sierra · Toronto
$180k–390k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Frontend - NYC
Harvey · New York
$193k–290k/yr
Research Engineer, AI Safety & Alignment
Character.AI · Redwood City, CA
$225k–400k/yr
Software Engineer, Agents
Harvey · New York
$161k–242k/yr
Full Stack Software Engineer, Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco
$255k–405k/yr
Full Stack Software Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen
OpenAI · San Francisco
$185k–385k/yr
Agent Development Manager
Decagon · Toronto
$130k–180k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Agents
Harvey · New York
$193k–290k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent Architecture
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research
OpenAI · San Francisco
$250k–380k/yr
Agentic Finance Engineer
Mercor · San Francisco
$175k–250k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–405k/yr
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure
Pinecone · US Remote
$190k–270k/yr
Agent Development Manager
Decagon · New York City
$150k–220k/yr
Research Engineer, Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Clinician Scientist
Abridge · SF Office
$236k–277k/yr
Software Engineer - Training Infrastructure
Baseten · San Francisco
$165k–330k/yr
Software Engineer, Insights
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–485k/yr
Training: ML Framework Engineer
OpenAI · San Francisco
$205k–445k/yr
Product Engineer, GTM Growth Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Seattle
OpenAI · Seattle
$162k–280k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Legal Engineer - Custom Solutions
Harvey · Chicago
$220k–320k/yr
Research Engineer – Benchmarking, Evals & Failure Analysis
Mercor · San Francisco
$130k–500k/yr
Backend Software Engineer (Evals)
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Software Engineer, RL Training Infra
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
Harvey · San Francisco
$193k–290k/yr
Multimodal LLM Researcher (MLLM)
Pika · Palo Alto HQ
$185k–400k/yr
Staff Research Engineer
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI)
Perplexity · New York City
$205k–335k/yr
Strategist, Agent Development - Financial Services
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$150k–300k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent (Korean Speaking)
Sierra · Singapore
$295k–495k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Performance & Systems Engineer, Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Senior Research Engineer
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent (Cantonese Speaking)
Sierra · Singapore
$295k–495k/yr
Staff AI research scientist
Writer · San Francisco, CA
$234k–296k/yr
Software Engineer, Internal Applications - Enterprise
OpenAI · San Francisco
$293k–342k/yr
Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
Simulation Applications Engineer
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Backend Software Engineer - Active Learning Team
Deepgram · USA | Remote
$150k–220k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Backend - NYC
Harvey · New York
$238k–290k/yr
Director of Customer Engineering, Agent Builder
Decagon · San Francisco
$250k–320k/yr
Software engineer, agents
Writer · New York City, NY
$112k–218k/yr
Strategist, Agent Development
Sierra · Singapore
$190k–380k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Staff Research Engineer, Voice + Speech
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–405k/yr
Research Engineer, Machine Learning Systems
Deepgram · USA | Remote
$150k–250k/yr
Software Engineer, Security
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$200k–330k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Agents
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Agent Post-Training Research
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Support Operations Engineer
Harvey · New York
$104k–156k/yr
Software quality engineer (US)
Writer · San Francisco, CA
$132k–258k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent
Sierra · Singapore
$295k–495k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$250k–405k/yr
Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
Software Engineer, Model Performance Systems
Baseten · San Francisco
$160k–200k/yr
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training
Mercor · San Francisco
$130k–500k/yr
Applied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Engineering Manager (API Platform)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$300k–405k/yr
Software Engineer, Codex Core Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)
Deepgram · USA | Remote
$150k–220k/yr
Legal Engineer - Custom Solutions
Harvey · San Francisco
$220k–320k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent Builder
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Frontend - NYC
Harvey · New York
$231k–340k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent (Thai Speaking)
Sierra · Singapore
$295k–495k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Harvey · San Francisco
$231k–314k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Connector Platform)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–405k/yr
Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments
OpenAI · San Francisco
$205k–380k/yr
Automation Engineer, Customer Education
Harvey · San Francisco
$124k–185k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent Data Platform
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Analytics Engineer)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$175k–330k/yr
Software Engineer - Deepgram for Restaurants
Deepgram · San Francisco, CA
$154k–307k/yr
AI deployment engineer (West)
Writer · San Francisco, CA
$132k–185k/yr
Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Engineering
Abridge · SF Office
$230k–290k/yr
Researcher, Automated Red Teaming
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Strategist, Agent Development - Healthcare
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$150k–300k/yr
Agent Engineer, TLM
Sierra · New York, NY
$280k–410k/yr
Support Operations Engineer
Harvey · Remote
$104k–156k/yr
Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI)
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Member of Technical Staff, Backend
Vapi · San Francisco
$200k–280k/yr
Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems
Modal · New York
$180k–240k/yr
AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–405k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform
Harvey · New York
$231k–340k/yr
Automation Engineer, Customer Education
Harvey · New York
$124k–185k/yr
Full Stack Software Engineer, Codex Cloud Apps
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–325k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent - Healthcare
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$180k–390k/yr
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience
Pinecone · US Remote
$190k–270k/yr
Engineering Manager, Active Learning
Deepgram · USA | Remote
$180k–220k/yr
Agent Strategist - SF
Vapi · San Francisco
$130k–160k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Product
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Senior Research Engineer
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform
Harvey · New York
$220k–300k/yr
Researcher, Agent Post-Training, API & Power-Users
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Software Engineer - Voice AI (Inference Runtime)
Baseten · San Francisco
$165k–330k/yr
Agent Development Manager
Decagon · San Francisco
$150k–220k/yr
Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration
Decagon · San Francisco
$280k–430k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - NYC
Harvey · New York
$193k–290k/yr
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–555k/yr
Software engineer, connectors & MCP
Writer · San Francisco, CA
$155k–304k/yr
Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Products
OpenAI · San Francisco
$278k–490k/yr
Agent Engineer - NY
Vapi · New York
$160k–180k/yr
Senior Research Engineer, Voice + Speech
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–405k/yr
Agent Strategist - NYC
Vapi · New York
$130k–160k/yr
Software Engineer, Gen AI Platform
Abridge · SF Office
$221k–300k/yr
Solutions architect (East)
Writer · New York City, NY
$183k–273k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Agents
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Software Engineer - Enterprise Platform
Baseten · San Francisco
$165k–330k/yr
Staff Research Engineer, Voice + Speech
Decagon · New York City
$200k–400k/yr
Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle
OpenAI · Seattle
$153k–325k/yr
Customer Engineer, Agent Builder
Decagon · New York City
$175k–230k/yr
Agent Engineer
Vapi · San Francisco
$160k–180k/yr
Staff Research Engineer
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Research Engineer, Multimodal
Character.AI · Redwood City, CA
$225k–400k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent
Sierra · Tokyo
$22000k–47000k/yr
Support Operations Engineer
Harvey · San Francisco
$104k–156k/yr
Engineering Manager - Model Performance
Baseten · San Francisco
$260k–380k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Agents
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Program Manager, Quality
Mercor · San Francisco
$120k–200k/yr
Senior AI Support Engineer (US)
Dust · San Francisco
$150k–200k/yr
Researcher, Agent Post-Training, Personality
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$175k–330k/yr
Software Engineer, Automation
Mercor · San Francisco
$130k–500k/yr
Software Engineer, Agents
Harvey · San Francisco
$161k–242k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Engineering Manager (TLM, Agents)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$300k–405k/yr
Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations - London
OpenAI · London, UK
$221k–370k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$180k–390k/yr
Software Engineer - AI Enablement
Baseten · San Francisco
$165k–330k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Infra
Pika · Palo Alto HQ
$185k–300k/yr
Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement
OpenAI · San Francisco
$255k–405k/yr
Security Preparedness Lead, Coding Agents
OpenAI · San Francisco
$293k–405k/yr
Research Engineer, Post-Training (All Industry Levels)
Character.AI · Redwood City or New York City
$225k–400k/yr
Engineering Manager, Model Inference
Abridge · SF Office
$220k–270k/yr
Software Engineer, Product
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
AI Deployment Engineer
OpenAI · New York City
$197k–278k/yr
Principal Research Engineer, Post-Training
Character.AI · Redwood City, CA
$275k–400k/yr
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer- Model Inference
Abridge · SF Office
$221k–260k/yr
GTM Technology Product Owner — Growth
Harvey · San Francisco
$164k–240k/yr
Customer Engineer, Agent Builder
Decagon · San Francisco
$175k–230k/yr
Senior Research Engineer, Voice + Speech
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform
Harvey · San Francisco
$231k–340k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Agents
Harvey · San Francisco
$193k–290k/yr
Support Engineer
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$250k–275k/yr
Software Engineer, Inference – AMD GPU Enablement
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–555k/yr
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Sierra · San Francisco, CA
$230k–390k/yr
Software Engineer, Research - Human Data
OpenAI · San Francisco
$230k–385k/yr
Staff Software Engineer, Agents
Harvey · San Francisco
$231k–340k/yr
Customer Engineer, Agent Builder
Decagon · Toronto
$150k–200k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–485k/yr