Compensation Data
2026 AI & ML salary guide
Typical US base salaries for senior roles in each AI and ML specialty, plus salaries shared anonymously by the community. Every job on TensorHunt needs a salary range to go live, so each specialty switches to live figures from real listings as jobs are posted.
ML Engineering
Build, train and ship ML models to production.
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Browse ML Engineering jobs →LLM & GenAI Engineering
Fine-tuning, RAG, agents, evals and inference.
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Browse LLM & GenAI Engineering jobs →Research Science
New methods, papers and frontier models.
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Browse Research Science jobs →Applied Science
Modelling, experimentation and evaluation for real problems.
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Browse Applied Science jobs →MLOps & ML Infrastructure
Training and serving platforms, GPU clusters, pipelines.
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Browse MLOps & ML Infrastructure jobs →Computer Vision
Image, video and 3D understanding and generation.
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Browse Computer Vision jobs →NLP & Speech
Language and speech models, ASR and TTS.
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Browse NLP & Speech jobs →Data Science & Analytics
Statistics, experimentation and decision science.
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Browse Data Science & Analytics jobs →Data Engineering
Pipelines, warehouses and training data.
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Browse Data Engineering jobs →AI Product & Leadership
Product managers and engineering leaders for AI teams.
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Browse AI Product & Leadership jobs →Software Engineering for AI
Backend, frontend, mobile and security at AI companies.
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Browse Software Engineering for AI jobs →