Fine-tuning salaries
Live salary data from first-party Fine-tuning postings (USD/yr). No surveys — pay ranges employers actually publish.
$313kmedian
$145klow
$34500khigh
36data points
Roles with published pay
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–555k/yr
Research Engineer, AI Safety & Alignment
Character.AI · Redwood City, CA
$225k–400k/yr
Research Engineer/Scientist - Human Alignment, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco
$380k–445k/yr
Research Engineer, Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Researcher, Synthetic RL
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)
Perplexity · San Francisco
$220k–485k/yr
Research Engineer, Applied AI Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco
$250k–555k/yr
Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity
OpenAI · San Francisco
$266k–555k/yr
Multimodal LLM Researcher (MLLM)
Pika · Palo Alto HQ
$185k–400k/yr
Post-Training Research Engineer
Baseten · San Francisco
$200k–275k/yr
Staff AI research scientist
Writer · San Francisco, CA
$234k–296k/yr
Software Engineer - Training Product
Baseten · San Francisco
$165k–330k/yr
Agent Post-Training Research
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Software Engineer, Model Performance Systems
Baseten · San Francisco
$160k–200k/yr
Research Staff, LLMs
Deepgram · USA | Remote
$150k–250k/yr
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training
Mercor · San Francisco
$130k–500k/yr
Research Engineer / Research Scientist -Personal AGI, Proactivity
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–555k/yr
Forward Deployed Engineer - ML
Modal · New York
$180k–250k/yr
Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments
OpenAI · San Francisco
$205k–380k/yr
Member of Technical Staff, Backend
Vapi · San Francisco
$200k–280k/yr
Member of Technical Staff, Document Understanding
LlamaIndex · San Francisco
$180k–250k/yr
Researcher, Agent Post-Training, API & Power-Users
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Engineering Manager, MLE
OpenAI · San Francisco
$293k–385k/yr
Agent Strategist - NYC
Vapi · New York
$130k–160k/yr
Software Engineer, Gen AI Platform
Abridge · SF Office
$221k–300k/yr
Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform
OpenAI · San Francisco
$293k–385k/yr
Staff Research Engineer
Decagon · San Francisco
$200k–400k/yr
Research Engineer, Multimodal
Character.AI · Redwood City, CA
$225k–400k/yr
Defense / Edge Tech Lead
Deepgram · USA | Remote
$185k–245k/yr
Software Engineer, Agent
Sierra · Tokyo
$22000k–47000k/yr
Research Engineer - Speech & Realtime Models
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Researcher, Agent Post-Training, Personality
OpenAI · San Francisco
$295k–445k/yr
Software Engineer - Model Performance
Baseten · San Francisco
$180k–360k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Infra
Pika · Palo Alto HQ
$185k–300k/yr
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack - NYC
Harvey · New York
$200k–260k/yr
Principal Research Engineer, Post-Training
Character.AI · Redwood City, CA
$275k–400k/yr