Top AI Engineer Salary

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hey there welcome back to our Channel today we're talking about how much money Ai and machine learning engineers make if you're just starting out in tag or thinking about switching into AI engineering this could really help you out I talked about the top software engineering salaries in my last video and one of the questions I got in the comment section was from user ID AB I think it's AB naak thank you for the comment and he asked if I can also talk about top AI engineering salaries so here we go now I'm using the same website called levels. FYI to categorize a job into different levels and find out how much they pay at various companies the way this site works is that everyone anonymously submits their own salary information and we can look at the salaries based on various filters and by the way this video is not sponsored by levels. FYI I just find it really helpful because it's been pretty accurate in my experience first we're going to look at us-based salaries by levels and and I'll briefly talk about global salaries and lastly a topic that everyone's always asking me about which is the remote engineering salaries for AI Engineers if this topic sounds interesting smash that like button and let's dive into it first of all let's dive into the entry level I have filtered for salaries updated in the past year specifically in the US there's a lot of debate about what qualifies as an entry level but for this filter setting for levels at Yi it is set to Zer to one year of experience and it's like the starting point in their world of working in time for this level the highest pay was fic Investments at $594,000 I'm just going to be rounding them up to the thousands and I've never actually heard of this company vatic investment so I had to Google it it apparently is a private Equity investment this person is in New York and despite having zero years of experience still got $250,000 of base salary and a bonus of $344,000 and whoever you are kudos to you good job securing that high pay as a new Junior and engineer next in line is radex trading they are also based in New York with an entry level total compensation of $525,000 same base of $250 as the first company but a slightly less bonus of 275,000 with one year of experience third is Jane Street at $518,000 with a slightly higher base pay of 300K and the first non-finance company in the entry-level category was Cruz with $465,000 this person is in San Francisco with one year of experience and I'm sure you're familiar with Cruz the top autonomous vehicle company they've been on the news quite a lot recently for good and bad and fifth place Place following cruise is nuro also a self-driving car company based in the Silicon Valley and the total compensation for this person was $460,000 and now let's move on to the mid-level rules which according to levels that FYI filter are levels with 2 to six years of experience first on the list is husten River Trading offering 2.1 million in total compensation but I do want to note that this might be a bit of an exception as the base salary was only at $200,000 and the bonus was really significant at $1.9 million which contributed to the overall annual earnings which is I guess not unusual for finance industry the second company was open AI with a total compensation of $925,000 with a base salary of 300K next was technically principal SD at Amazon which appeared on the list but I'm going to just exclude that because that's not really a midlevel engineering role so moving on we have L6 and cruise boasting a total compensation of $86,000 this breaks down into a base salary of 283k total stock rsus amounting to 466k and the bonus of $57,000 following closely we find app liit securing the fourth spot with a total compensation of 800k while grammarly is not too far behind at $780,000 in total compensation now let's look at senior level which according to levels that fii are rules with seven plus years of experience this is where a lot of the Fang companies start to show up at the top we have Facebook E7 which is pretty pretty damn senior with the total compensation of $1,965 th000 this included a base salary of $285,000 stock RSU totaling $1.6 million and a bonus of $80,000 just to give you a little more context an E7 level at Facebook would be somewhat similar to a principal engineer and that is why I excluded the principal engineer Amazon from the previous list the person holding this particular position at Facebook reported 17 years of experience working in Tech following closely was an L9 at Google with a total compensation of 1, 570,000 these numbers are so high it's kind of difficult to speak okay well this person from Google also is very seasoned he or she has 30 years of experience curing the third place is Cruz L8 at $1,340 th000 followed by by Pinterest at $1,310 th000 and Netflix at $1.2 million these numbers pretty much show that experienced people in the tech industry really get good pay as they move up in their careers it's not easy to get to this level but if you can wing it the payout is great now if I take away the filter that shows jobs only in the US and look at jobs all around the world the ranking pretty much stays the same which tells us that United States is where you can find the jobs that pay the most and if you are aiming for those high paying jobs us is probably where you would want to be but I know many people want to work remotely here is a list of entry-level remote jobs all around the world ranking at number one is Pinterest at $300,000 number two was Amazon at $272,000 next is Intel at $217,000 number four is dropbox at $22,000 and lastly Twitter is at $186,000 as you can see the pay is significantly less compared to the earlier list but it's still a good amount of money especially if you're looking for that flexibility to work from anywhere now if you want to learn more about whether AI engineering career is the right career for you watch this video otherwise this is the video that YouTube thinks you should watch next