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AI engineer jobs paying $180k+

Applied AI is the highest-paying speciality in software right now. These listings have explicit base bands at or above $180k — no "competitive" hand-waving.

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At the $180k+ floor AI engineering bifurcates into research-adjacent roles (PhD or published work usually required, base in the $180-240k range but with serious equity at the foundation-model labs) and applied AI (strong backend background + hands-on LLM / RAG / vector DB / evaluation work, base in the $180-260k range, equity smaller but cash higher). Most of the listings on this page are the second kind — every B2B SaaS at Series B+ is hiring at least one engineer to ship LLM features and they're paying senior-backend-plus to land them. Read the JD carefully for the lane: research roles emphasise novel methods + papers; applied roles emphasise production infrastructure, latency, eval, and cost.

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