AI Engineering Roles · Boston, MA
AI Engineering Roles salary in Boston.
321 roles tracked. Median $162,260. 22% above national.
$41,480
Low
$162,260
Median
$423,340
High
Boston's job market is powered by world class universities, a thriving biotech corridor, and established finance and healthcare sectors. The Kendall Square area is one of the most concentrated biotech hubs globally. Tech salaries in Boston are competitive with West Coast markets, particularly for roles that intersect with life sciences, AI, and robotics.
Massachusetts has a flat 5% income tax on most earnings, plus a 4% surtax on income above $1 million. There is no city income tax in Boston, keeping the total burden moderate.
Emphasize specialized credentials or advanced degrees. Boston employers, especially in biotech and finance, place a premium on educational pedigree and certifications.
AI Engineering Roles ranked by pay in Boston.
RoleLowMedianHigh
Machine Learning Director$276,940$325,740$423,340AI Protein Structure Specialist$209,840$268,400$348,920AI Technical Lead$219,600$256,200$308,660ML Technical Lead$219,600$256,200$308,660Staff AI Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Principal AI Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Staff AI Agent Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Principal AI Agent Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Staff AI Agent Architect$219,600$256,200$308,660Principal AI Agent Architect$219,600$256,200$308,660Staff AI Compiler Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Principal AI Compiler Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Lead Radiology AI Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Lead KYC/AML Engineer$219,600$256,200$308,660Lead Contract AI Developer$219,600$256,200$308,660Staff ML Engineer$207,400$254,980$329,400Principal ML Engineer$207,400$254,980$329,400Staff NLP Engineer$207,400$254,980$329,400Principal NLP Engineer$207,400$254,980$329,400Staff LLM Engineer$207,400$254,980$329,400Principal LLM Engineer$207,400$254,980$329,400EV Battery AI Optimization Engineer$195,200$250,100$325,740AI Business Development Manager$164,700$239,120$323,300Route Optimization AI Specialist$180,560$231,800$301,340Humanoid Robotics Engineer$170,800$229,360$302,560Senior AI Chip Designer$203,740$225,700$252,540AI Inventory Optimization Specialist$170,800$219,600$285,480AI Data Labeling Manager$157,380$208,620$272,060AI Transformation Officer$157,380$208,620$272,060AI Environment Manager$157,380$208,620$272,060Model Registry Manager$157,380$208,620$272,060Engineering Manager, AI$157,380$208,620$272,060Prompt Operations Manager$157,380$208,620$272,060AI Agent Operations Manager$157,380$208,620$272,060AI Manager$157,380$208,620$272,060Machine Learning Manager$157,380$208,620$272,060AI Transformation Lead$174,460$207,400$258,640AI Operations Lead$158,600$207,400$268,400AI Adoption Lead$174,460$207,400$258,640AI Change Management Lead$174,460$207,400$258,640Senior AI Engineer$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior AI Agent Engineer$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior AI Agent Architect$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior AI Compiler Engineer$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior Radiology AI Engineer$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior KYC/AML Engineer$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior Contract AI Developer$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior AI Developer$179,340$206,180$239,120Senior ML Systems Engineer$179,340$206,180$239,120AI Learning Experience Designer$157,380$201,300$262,300No-Code AI Specialist$157,380$201,300$262,300Senior ML Engineer$157,380$190,320$231,800Senior NLP Engineer$157,380$190,320$231,800Senior LLM Engineer$157,380$190,320$231,800Senior Azure AI Engineer$157,380$190,320$231,800Senior GCP ML Engineer$157,380$190,320$231,800AI Hardware/Chip Design Engineer$134,200$189,100$231,800AI Hardware Engineer$134,200$189,100$231,800AI Chip Designer$134,200$189,100$231,800AI Semiconductor Test Engineer$134,200$189,100$231,800AI Chipset Designer$134,200$189,100$231,800AI Chip Architect$134,200$189,100$231,800AI Accelerator Engineer$134,200$189,100$231,800AI Auditor$140,300$183,000$237,900AI Recruitment Specialist$137,860$176,900$230,580AI Transparency Lead$145,180$176,900$224,480AI Trust and Safety Lead$145,180$176,900$224,480AI Reasoning Specialist$118,340$172,020$228,140AI Agent Designer$132,980$170,800$222,040AI Vendor Manager$125,660$170,800$220,820AI Data Engineer$126,880$165,920$213,500Data Architect (AI/ML)$126,880$165,920$213,500AI Analytics Engineer$126,880$165,920$213,500Data Pipeline Engineer (ML)$126,880$165,920$213,500AI Data Quality Engineer$126,880$165,920$213,500Knowledge Graph Engineer$126,880$165,920$213,500Responsible AI Lead$137,860$165,920$208,620Machine Learning Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280ML Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280NLP Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Computer Vision Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280LLM Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280LLM Fine-Tuning Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Solutions Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280Generative AI Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280Robotics AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Agent Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280Edge AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Agentic Orchestrator$120,780$162,260$212,280Full Stack AI Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Systems Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Application Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Backend Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Frontend Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Embedded AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Firmware Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI API Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Microservices Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Integration Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Real-Time AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Compiler Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Model Distillation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280ML Pipeline Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Speech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Chatbot Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Localization Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280LiDAR AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Robotic Process Automation Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280Motion Planning AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Manipulation AI Specialist$120,780$162,260$212,280Robot Perception Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Agent Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Workflow Automation Specialist$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Simulation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Embodied AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Neuro AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280On-Device AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Wearables Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Spatial Computing AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Personal Assistant Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Workflow Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Fairness Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280LLM Operations Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Digital Twin Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280Developer Advocate, AI$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Accessibility Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Incident Commander$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Data Marketplace Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Knowledge Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Telecom Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Computer Vision Applications Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280NLP Applications Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Model Compression Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Search Ranking Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Embedded Systems Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Agent Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Systems Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280ML Solutions Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280Generative AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Evaluation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280TinyML Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280GovTech ML Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Workflow Automation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Prompt Operations Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Spatial Computing Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Tutor Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280Consulting ML Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Telecom ML Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Model Serving Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Training Data Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Founding ML Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Diagnostics Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Digital Therapeutics AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280MarTech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280SaaS AI Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280Adaptive Learning AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280InsurTech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Underwriting Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AgTech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI NPC Designer$120,780$162,260$212,280Telecom AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280HRTech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280GovTech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Building Design Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280FoodTech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Space Tech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Digital Health AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Spatial AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280LLM Ops Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Model Registry Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Carbon Capture AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280Chatbot Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI CRM Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Customer Support Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Email Marketing Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Pricing Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Revenue Optimization Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Accounting Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Payroll Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Audit Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Expense Management Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Credit Scoring Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Lending Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Document Review Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Property Valuation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Fleet Management Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Warehouse Optimization Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Demand Forecasting Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Quality Control Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Predictive Maintenance Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Digital Twin Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Assessment Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Recommendation Engine Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Vehicle Diagnostics Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Traffic Systems Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Network Planning Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Spectrum Optimization Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Claims Adjudication Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Visual Search Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Store Analytics Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Demand Planning Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Coaching Systems Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Recipe Recommendation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Talent Matching Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Workforce Planning Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Generative AI Solutions Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Agent Solutions Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Agent Integration Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Enterprise AI Agent Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Workflow Designer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Process Automation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Freelance AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280OpenAI API Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280Agentic AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Copilot Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Assistant Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Chatbot Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Search Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Benchmarking Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Document Understanding Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Code Generation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Reasoning Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Planning Systems Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Benchmark Developer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Data Pipeline Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Experiment Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Responsible AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI 3D Generation Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Text-to-Speech AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280Speech-to-Text AI Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Dubbing Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280ML Systems Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280ML Systems Architect$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Monitoring Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Incident Response Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Compiler Optimization Engineer$120,780$162,260$212,280AI Cloud Architect$119,560$158,600$207,400AI Customer Success Engineer$123,220$158,600$206,180Senior Magento Developer$122,000$156,160$202,520AI Training Manager$111,020$154,940$214,720AI Incident Response Analyst$106,140$152,500$201,300AI Privacy Engineer$106,140$152,500$201,300AI Enablement & Literacy Lead$122,000$150,060$195,200AI/GenAI Sales Engineer$104,920$148,840$201,300AI Sales Engineer$104,920$148,840$201,300Solutions Engineer, AI$104,920$148,840$201,300AI Solutions Engineer$104,920$148,840$201,300AI Pre-Sales Engineer$104,920$148,840$201,300AI Customer Engineer$104,920$148,840$201,300AI Field Engineer$104,920$148,840$201,300AI Demo Engineer$104,920$148,840$201,300Robotics Engineer$98,820$143,960$192,760AI Trainer / RLHF Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Training Data Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640Deep Learning Engineer$95,160$137,860$197,640AI/ML Data Analyst$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Business Intelligence Analyst$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Bias & Fairness Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Agricultural Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Model Evaluator$95,160$137,860$197,640Intelligence AI Analyst$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Trainer$95,160$137,860$197,640LLM Fine-Tuning Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640LLM Evaluator$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Ad Optimization Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Claims Processing Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Contract Analysis Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Crop Analysis Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640Network AI Optimization Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Analyst$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Consultant$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Specialist$95,160$137,860$197,640Machine Learning Analyst$95,160$137,860$197,640Machine Learning Consultant$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Model Trainer$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Data Curator$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Feature Engineer$95,160$137,860$197,640AI A/B Testing Engineer$95,160$137,860$197,640Time Series ML Engineer$95,160$137,860$197,640Graph ML Engineer$95,160$137,860$197,640Bayesian ML Engineer$95,160$137,860$197,640AI Localization Specialist$97,600$131,760$170,800AI Quality Assurance Engineer$92,720$125,660$165,920AI Testing Engineer$92,720$125,660$165,920Junior AI Engineer$107,360$125,660$145,180Junior AI Agent Engineer$107,360$125,660$145,180Junior AI Agent Architect$107,360$125,660$145,180Junior AI Compiler Engineer$107,360$125,660$145,180AI Agent QA Engineer$92,720$125,660$165,920AI Solutions Consultant$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Transformation Consultant$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Value Realization Analyst$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Roadmap Strategist$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Venture Analyst$91,500$123,220$167,140AI Workforce Planner$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Business Analyst$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Change Manager$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Adoption Manager$89,060$123,220$168,360AI Cost Analyst$91,500$123,220$167,140AI FinOps Engineer$91,500$123,220$167,140Magento Developer$95,160$122,000$158,600AI Documentation Engineer$79,300$112,240$126,880AI Transportation Planner$78,080$102,480$131,760Junior ML Engineer$82,960$101,260$120,780Junior NLP Engineer$82,960$101,260$120,780Junior LLM Engineer$82,960$101,260$120,780AI Partnership Manager$70,760$98,820$139,080AI Ecosystem Manager$70,760$98,820$139,080AI Geospatial Analyst$74,420$95,160$125,660AI Regulation Specialist$68,320$95,160$132,980AI Marketing Technologist$64,660$93,940$132,980AI Market Intelligence Analyst$64,660$93,940$132,980AI Pricing Analyst$64,660$93,940$132,980AI Procurement Analyst$68,320$92,720$125,660Technical Recruiter, AI$64,660$89,060$123,220AI Annotation Lead$59,780$67,100$76,860AI Customer Support Specialist$42,700$52,460$62,220AI Trainer / Data Annotator$41,480$48,800$58,560Salaries adjusted for Boston cost of living (+22% vs. national). 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Common questions.
The median salary across 321 ai engineering roles tracked in Boston, MA is $162,260. The full range runs from $41,480 at the entry level for the lowest-paying tracked role up to $423,340 at the top of the highest-paying tracked role. Boston sits 22% above the national average for cost-adjusted compensation.
Machine Learning Director is the highest-paying ai engineering role in Boston, with a median base salary of $325,740 when adjusted for local cost of living. Total compensation including equity and bonuses runs significantly higher at top-tier employers.
Yes. Boston is one of the active markets for AI talent in 2026. Boston's job market is powered by world class universities, a thriving biotech corridor, and established finance and healthcare sectors. AI Engineering Roles specifically benefit from local employer demand and the broader AI hiring boom that has pushed compensation up year over year.
Boston pays roughly 22% more than the national average for ai engineering roles. Top markets like San Francisco, New York, and Seattle typically pay 30-50% above national. Mid-cost metros like Austin, Denver, and Raleigh pay closer to national.
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