Salaries

Industry vertical.

AI Finance Roles.

Where AI meets capital.

25
$133K
$73K to $299K

Source.

By Justin Bartak, Founder & Chief AI OfficerUpdated Q2 2024 benchmarks

Finance pays AI engineers more than almost any other vertical, and the reason is simple: the work moves real money. Quantitative trading, fraud detection, insurance underwriting, risk modeling, fintech engineering. Banks, hedge funds, prop shops, fintechs, and insurance carriers all bid against each other for the same engineers. Compensation reflects the bidding war. Roles below are sorted by base salary.

Roles in ai finance roles.

AI Finance Roles ranked by base median salary, sourced from Orbyt Intelligence Q2 2024.
RoleLowMedianHigh
AI Trading Strategist$179K$230K$299K
AI Risk Analytics Engineer$168K$215K$280K
AI Financial Engineer$155K$210K$270K
Financial AI Product Manager$164K$210K$273K
AI Risk Manager$135K$175K$225K
AI Fintech Product Manager$129K$171K$223K
Quantum ML Researcher$97K$141K$187K
Quantum Computing AI Researcher$97K$141K$187K
AI Fintech Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Trading Systems Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Insurance Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Fraud Detection Engineer$99K$133K$174K
Fintech ML Engineer$99K$133K$174K
Insurance ML Engineer$99K$133K$174K
Fintech AI Engineer$99K$133K$174K
Banking AI Engineer$99K$133K$174K
Crypto AI Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Financial Planning Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Payments Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Payment Fraud Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Insurance Pricing Engineer$99K$133K$174K
AI Insurance Underwriting Specialist$78K$113K$162K
Quantitative AI Researcher$78K$113K$162K
AI Fraud Strategist$78K$113K$162K
AI Portfolio Manager$73K$101K$136K

Top cities.

Common questions.

Not always, but it shortens the interview. Most engineers hired into AI finance roles have a quant background (math, physics, CS) plus on-the-job finance learning, OR an MBA/CFA plus serious technical chops. Pure finance majors without coding lose to engineers with finance interest.

Quant trading. Top hedge funds and prop shops pay AI engineers $400K to $800K total comp with extreme bonus skew. Fintech runs $200K to $400K with more stable equity. Quant has higher upside; fintech has more career stability.

Less than they used to be. AI finance roles got promoted from cost center to revenue center over the past 24 months. Even in a banking downturn, AI fraud detection and AI risk modeling stay funded because the ROI is direct and immediate.

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