AI Engineering Roles · Manchester, NH
AI Engineering Roles salary in Manchester.
321 roles tracked. Median $140,980. 6% above national.
$36,040
Low
$140,980
Median
$367,820
High
Manchester is New Hampshire's largest city and a growing satellite hub for Boston's tech economy. The lack of state income tax and sales tax makes it highly attractive for professionals who commute to or work remotely for Boston area employers. Defense, healthcare, and small tech firms anchor the local economy.
New Hampshire has no state income tax on wages and no sales tax. Manchester has no city income tax. This makes it one of the lowest taxed metros in the Northeast.
Use the no income tax advantage to negotiate. Many professionals live in Manchester and work remotely for Boston companies, keeping the higher salary with zero state tax.
AI Engineering Roles ranked by pay in Manchester.
RoleLowMedianHigh
Machine Learning Director$240,620$283,020$367,820AI Protein Structure Specialist$182,320$233,200$303,160AI Technical Lead$190,800$222,600$268,180ML Technical Lead$190,800$222,600$268,180Staff AI Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Principal AI Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Staff AI Agent Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Principal AI Agent Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Staff AI Agent Architect$190,800$222,600$268,180Principal AI Agent Architect$190,800$222,600$268,180Staff AI Compiler Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Principal AI Compiler Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Lead Radiology AI Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Lead KYC/AML Engineer$190,800$222,600$268,180Lead Contract AI Developer$190,800$222,600$268,180Staff ML Engineer$180,200$221,540$286,200Principal ML Engineer$180,200$221,540$286,200Staff NLP Engineer$180,200$221,540$286,200Principal NLP Engineer$180,200$221,540$286,200Staff LLM Engineer$180,200$221,540$286,200Principal LLM Engineer$180,200$221,540$286,200EV Battery AI Optimization Engineer$169,600$217,300$283,020AI Business Development Manager$143,100$207,760$280,900Route Optimization AI Specialist$156,880$201,400$261,820Humanoid Robotics Engineer$148,400$199,280$262,880Senior AI Chip Designer$177,020$196,100$219,420AI Inventory Optimization Specialist$148,400$190,800$248,040AI Data Labeling Manager$136,740$181,260$236,380AI Transformation Officer$136,740$181,260$236,380AI Environment Manager$136,740$181,260$236,380Model Registry Manager$136,740$181,260$236,380Engineering Manager, AI$136,740$181,260$236,380Prompt Operations Manager$136,740$181,260$236,380AI Agent Operations Manager$136,740$181,260$236,380AI Manager$136,740$181,260$236,380Machine Learning Manager$136,740$181,260$236,380AI Transformation Lead$151,580$180,200$224,720AI Operations Lead$137,800$180,200$233,200AI Adoption Lead$151,580$180,200$224,720AI Change Management Lead$151,580$180,200$224,720Senior AI Engineer$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior AI Agent Engineer$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior AI Agent Architect$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior AI Compiler Engineer$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior Radiology AI Engineer$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior KYC/AML Engineer$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior Contract AI Developer$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior AI Developer$155,820$179,140$207,760Senior ML Systems Engineer$155,820$179,140$207,760AI Learning Experience Designer$136,740$174,900$227,900No-Code AI Specialist$136,740$174,900$227,900Senior ML Engineer$136,740$165,360$201,400Senior NLP Engineer$136,740$165,360$201,400Senior LLM Engineer$136,740$165,360$201,400Senior Azure AI Engineer$136,740$165,360$201,400Senior GCP ML Engineer$136,740$165,360$201,400AI Hardware/Chip Design Engineer$116,600$164,300$201,400AI Hardware Engineer$116,600$164,300$201,400AI Chip Designer$116,600$164,300$201,400AI Semiconductor Test Engineer$116,600$164,300$201,400AI Chipset Designer$116,600$164,300$201,400AI Chip Architect$116,600$164,300$201,400AI Accelerator Engineer$116,600$164,300$201,400AI Auditor$121,900$159,000$206,700AI Recruitment Specialist$119,780$153,700$200,340AI Transparency Lead$126,140$153,700$195,040AI Trust and Safety Lead$126,140$153,700$195,040AI Reasoning Specialist$102,820$149,460$198,220AI Agent Designer$115,540$148,400$192,920AI Vendor Manager$109,180$148,400$191,860AI Data Engineer$110,240$144,160$185,500Data Architect (AI/ML)$110,240$144,160$185,500AI Analytics Engineer$110,240$144,160$185,500Data Pipeline Engineer (ML)$110,240$144,160$185,500AI Data Quality Engineer$110,240$144,160$185,500Knowledge Graph Engineer$110,240$144,160$185,500Responsible AI Lead$119,780$144,160$181,260Machine Learning Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440ML Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440NLP Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Computer Vision Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440LLM Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440LLM Fine-Tuning Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Solutions Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440Generative AI Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440Robotics AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Agent Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440Edge AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Agentic Orchestrator$104,940$140,980$184,440Full Stack AI Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Systems Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Application Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Backend Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Frontend Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Embedded AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Firmware Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI API Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Microservices Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Integration Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Real-Time AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Compiler Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Model Distillation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440ML Pipeline Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Speech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Chatbot Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Localization Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440LiDAR AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Robotic Process Automation Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440Motion Planning AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Manipulation AI Specialist$104,940$140,980$184,440Robot Perception Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Agent Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Workflow Automation Specialist$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Simulation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Embodied AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Neuro AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440On-Device AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Wearables Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Spatial Computing AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Personal Assistant Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Workflow Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Fairness Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440LLM Operations Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Digital Twin Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440Developer Advocate, AI$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Accessibility Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Incident Commander$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Data Marketplace Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Knowledge Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Telecom Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Computer Vision Applications Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440NLP Applications Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Model Compression Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Search Ranking Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Embedded Systems Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Agent Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Systems Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440ML Solutions Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440Generative AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Evaluation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440TinyML Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440GovTech ML Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Workflow Automation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Prompt Operations Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Spatial Computing Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Tutor Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440Consulting ML Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Telecom ML Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Model Serving Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Training Data Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Founding ML Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Diagnostics Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Digital Therapeutics AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440MarTech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440SaaS AI Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440Adaptive Learning AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440InsurTech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Underwriting Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AgTech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI NPC Designer$104,940$140,980$184,440Telecom AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440HRTech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440GovTech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Building Design Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440FoodTech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Space Tech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Digital Health AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Spatial AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440LLM Ops Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Model Registry Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Carbon Capture AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440Chatbot Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI CRM Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Customer Support Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Email Marketing Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Pricing Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Revenue Optimization Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Accounting Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Payroll Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Audit Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Expense Management Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Credit Scoring Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Lending Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Document Review Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Property Valuation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Fleet Management Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Warehouse Optimization Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Demand Forecasting Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Quality Control Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Predictive Maintenance Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Digital Twin Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Assessment Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Recommendation Engine Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Vehicle Diagnostics Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Traffic Systems Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Network Planning Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Spectrum Optimization Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Claims Adjudication Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Visual Search Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Store Analytics Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Demand Planning Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Coaching Systems Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Recipe Recommendation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Talent Matching Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Workforce Planning Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Generative AI Solutions Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Agent Solutions Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Agent Integration Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Enterprise AI Agent Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Workflow Designer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Process Automation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Freelance AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440OpenAI API Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440Agentic AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Copilot Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Assistant Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Chatbot Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Search Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Benchmarking Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Document Understanding Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Code Generation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Reasoning Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Planning Systems Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Benchmark Developer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Data Pipeline Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Experiment Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Responsible AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI 3D Generation Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Text-to-Speech AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440Speech-to-Text AI Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Dubbing Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440ML Systems Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440ML Systems Architect$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Monitoring Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Incident Response Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Compiler Optimization Engineer$104,940$140,980$184,440AI Cloud Architect$103,880$137,800$180,200AI Customer Success Engineer$107,060$137,800$179,140Senior Magento Developer$106,000$135,680$175,960AI Training Manager$96,460$134,620$186,560AI Incident Response Analyst$92,220$132,500$174,900AI Privacy Engineer$92,220$132,500$174,900AI Enablement & Literacy Lead$106,000$130,380$169,600AI/GenAI Sales Engineer$91,160$129,320$174,900AI Sales Engineer$91,160$129,320$174,900Solutions Engineer, AI$91,160$129,320$174,900AI Solutions Engineer$91,160$129,320$174,900AI Pre-Sales Engineer$91,160$129,320$174,900AI Customer Engineer$91,160$129,320$174,900AI Field Engineer$91,160$129,320$174,900AI Demo Engineer$91,160$129,320$174,900Robotics Engineer$85,860$125,080$167,480AI Trainer / RLHF Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Training Data Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720Deep Learning Engineer$82,680$119,780$171,720AI/ML Data Analyst$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Business Intelligence Analyst$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Bias & Fairness Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Agricultural Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Model Evaluator$82,680$119,780$171,720Intelligence AI Analyst$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Trainer$82,680$119,780$171,720LLM Fine-Tuning Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720LLM Evaluator$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Ad Optimization Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Claims Processing Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Contract Analysis Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Crop Analysis Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720Network AI Optimization Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Analyst$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Consultant$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Specialist$82,680$119,780$171,720Machine Learning Analyst$82,680$119,780$171,720Machine Learning Consultant$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Model Trainer$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Data Curator$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Feature Engineer$82,680$119,780$171,720AI A/B Testing Engineer$82,680$119,780$171,720Time Series ML Engineer$82,680$119,780$171,720Graph ML Engineer$82,680$119,780$171,720Bayesian ML Engineer$82,680$119,780$171,720AI Localization Specialist$84,800$114,480$148,400AI Quality Assurance Engineer$80,560$109,180$144,160AI Testing Engineer$80,560$109,180$144,160Junior AI Engineer$93,280$109,180$126,140Junior AI Agent Engineer$93,280$109,180$126,140Junior AI Agent Architect$93,280$109,180$126,140Junior AI Compiler Engineer$93,280$109,180$126,140AI Agent QA Engineer$80,560$109,180$144,160AI Solutions Consultant$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Transformation Consultant$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Value Realization Analyst$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Roadmap Strategist$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Venture Analyst$79,500$107,060$145,220AI Workforce Planner$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Business Analyst$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Change Manager$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Adoption Manager$77,380$107,060$146,280AI Cost Analyst$79,500$107,060$145,220AI FinOps Engineer$79,500$107,060$145,220Magento Developer$82,680$106,000$137,800AI Documentation Engineer$68,900$97,520$110,240AI Transportation Planner$67,840$89,040$114,480Junior ML Engineer$72,080$87,980$104,940Junior NLP Engineer$72,080$87,980$104,940Junior LLM Engineer$72,080$87,980$104,940AI Partnership Manager$61,480$85,860$120,840AI Ecosystem Manager$61,480$85,860$120,840AI Geospatial Analyst$64,660$82,680$109,180AI Regulation Specialist$59,360$82,680$115,540AI Marketing Technologist$56,180$81,620$115,540AI Market Intelligence Analyst$56,180$81,620$115,540AI Pricing Analyst$56,180$81,620$115,540AI Procurement Analyst$59,360$80,560$109,180Technical Recruiter, AI$56,180$77,380$107,060AI Annotation Lead$51,940$58,300$66,780AI Customer Support Specialist$37,100$45,580$54,060AI Trainer / Data Annotator$36,040$42,400$50,880Salaries adjusted for Manchester cost of living (+6% vs. national). 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Common questions.
The median salary across 321 ai engineering roles tracked in Manchester, NH is $140,980. The full range runs from $36,040 at the entry level for the lowest-paying tracked role up to $367,820 at the top of the highest-paying tracked role. Manchester sits 6% above the national average for cost-adjusted compensation.
Machine Learning Director is the highest-paying ai engineering role in Manchester, with a median base salary of $283,020 when adjusted for local cost of living. Total compensation including equity and bonuses runs significantly higher at top-tier employers.
Yes. Manchester is one of the active markets for AI talent in 2026. Manchester is New Hampshire's largest city and a growing satellite hub for Boston's tech economy. AI Engineering Roles specifically benefit from local employer demand and the broader AI hiring boom that has pushed compensation up year over year.
Manchester pays roughly 6% 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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