AI Engineering Roles · Miami, FL
AI Engineering Roles salary in Miami.
321 roles tracked. Median $148,960. 12% above national.
$38,080
Low
$148,960
Median
$388,640
High
Miami has rapidly evolved from a tourism and real estate center into a legitimate tech and finance hub. The city's crypto, fintech, and Latin American trade connections have drawn significant venture investment. Cost of living has surged recently, but the absence of state income tax keeps take home pay competitive with larger metros.
Florida has no state income tax, which is a major draw for high earners. Overall tax burden is low, though property insurance costs and rising housing prices offset some savings.
Use the no income tax benefit to frame your ask. Show employers that accepting 90 to 95% of a New York salary in Miami yields equivalent or better take home pay.
AI Engineering Roles ranked by pay in Miami.
RoleLowMedianHigh
Machine Learning Director$254,240$299,040$388,640AI Protein Structure Specialist$192,640$246,400$320,320AI Technical Lead$201,600$235,200$283,360ML Technical Lead$201,600$235,200$283,360Staff AI Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Principal AI Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Staff AI Agent Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Principal AI Agent Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Staff AI Agent Architect$201,600$235,200$283,360Principal AI Agent Architect$201,600$235,200$283,360Staff AI Compiler Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Principal AI Compiler Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Lead Radiology AI Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Lead KYC/AML Engineer$201,600$235,200$283,360Lead Contract AI Developer$201,600$235,200$283,360Staff ML Engineer$190,400$234,080$302,400Principal ML Engineer$190,400$234,080$302,400Staff NLP Engineer$190,400$234,080$302,400Principal NLP Engineer$190,400$234,080$302,400Staff LLM Engineer$190,400$234,080$302,400Principal LLM Engineer$190,400$234,080$302,400EV Battery AI Optimization Engineer$179,200$229,600$299,040AI Business Development Manager$151,200$219,520$296,800Route Optimization AI Specialist$165,760$212,800$276,640Humanoid Robotics Engineer$156,800$210,560$277,760Senior AI Chip Designer$187,040$207,200$231,840AI Inventory Optimization Specialist$156,800$201,600$262,080AI Data Labeling Manager$144,480$191,520$249,760AI Transformation Officer$144,480$191,520$249,760AI Environment Manager$144,480$191,520$249,760Model Registry Manager$144,480$191,520$249,760Engineering Manager, AI$144,480$191,520$249,760Prompt Operations Manager$144,480$191,520$249,760AI Agent Operations Manager$144,480$191,520$249,760AI Manager$144,480$191,520$249,760Machine Learning Manager$144,480$191,520$249,760AI Transformation Lead$160,160$190,400$237,440AI Operations Lead$145,600$190,400$246,400AI Adoption Lead$160,160$190,400$237,440AI Change Management Lead$160,160$190,400$237,440Senior AI Engineer$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior AI Agent Engineer$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior AI Agent Architect$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior AI Compiler Engineer$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior Radiology AI Engineer$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior KYC/AML Engineer$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior Contract AI Developer$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior AI Developer$164,640$189,280$219,520Senior ML Systems Engineer$164,640$189,280$219,520AI Learning Experience Designer$144,480$184,800$240,800No-Code AI Specialist$144,480$184,800$240,800Senior ML Engineer$144,480$174,720$212,800Senior NLP Engineer$144,480$174,720$212,800Senior LLM Engineer$144,480$174,720$212,800Senior Azure AI Engineer$144,480$174,720$212,800Senior GCP ML Engineer$144,480$174,720$212,800AI Hardware/Chip Design Engineer$123,200$173,600$212,800AI Hardware Engineer$123,200$173,600$212,800AI Chip Designer$123,200$173,600$212,800AI Semiconductor Test Engineer$123,200$173,600$212,800AI Chipset Designer$123,200$173,600$212,800AI Chip Architect$123,200$173,600$212,800AI Accelerator Engineer$123,200$173,600$212,800AI Auditor$128,800$168,000$218,400AI Recruitment Specialist$126,560$162,400$211,680AI Transparency Lead$133,280$162,400$206,080AI Trust and Safety Lead$133,280$162,400$206,080AI Reasoning Specialist$108,640$157,920$209,440AI Agent Designer$122,080$156,800$203,840AI Vendor Manager$115,360$156,800$202,720AI Data Engineer$116,480$152,320$196,000Data Architect (AI/ML)$116,480$152,320$196,000AI Analytics Engineer$116,480$152,320$196,000Data Pipeline Engineer (ML)$116,480$152,320$196,000AI Data Quality Engineer$116,480$152,320$196,000Knowledge Graph Engineer$116,480$152,320$196,000Responsible AI Lead$126,560$152,320$191,520Machine Learning Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880ML Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880NLP Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Computer Vision Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880LLM Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880LLM Fine-Tuning Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Solutions Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880Generative AI Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880Robotics AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Agent Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880Edge AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Agentic Orchestrator$110,880$148,960$194,880Full Stack AI Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Systems Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Application Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Backend Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Frontend Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Embedded AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Firmware Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI API Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Microservices Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Integration Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Real-Time AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Compiler Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Model Distillation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880ML Pipeline Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Speech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Chatbot Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Localization Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880LiDAR AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Robotic Process Automation Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880Motion Planning AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Manipulation AI Specialist$110,880$148,960$194,880Robot Perception Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Agent Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Workflow Automation Specialist$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Simulation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Embodied AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Neuro AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880On-Device AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Wearables Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Spatial Computing AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Personal Assistant Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Workflow Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Fairness Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880LLM Operations Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Digital Twin Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880Developer Advocate, AI$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Accessibility Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Incident Commander$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Data Marketplace Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Knowledge Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Telecom Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Computer Vision Applications Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880NLP Applications Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Model Compression Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Search Ranking Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Embedded Systems Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Agent Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Systems Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880ML Solutions Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880Generative AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Evaluation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880TinyML Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880GovTech ML Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Workflow Automation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Prompt Operations Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Spatial Computing Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Tutor Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880Consulting ML Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Telecom ML Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Model Serving Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Training Data Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Founding ML Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Diagnostics Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Digital Therapeutics AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880MarTech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880SaaS AI Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880Adaptive Learning AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880InsurTech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Underwriting Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AgTech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI NPC Designer$110,880$148,960$194,880Telecom AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880HRTech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880GovTech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Building Design Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880FoodTech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Space Tech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Digital Health AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Spatial AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880LLM Ops Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Model Registry Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Carbon Capture AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880Chatbot Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI CRM Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Customer Support Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Email Marketing Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Pricing Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Revenue Optimization Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Accounting Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Payroll Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Audit Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Expense Management Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Credit Scoring Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Lending Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Document Review Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Property Valuation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Fleet Management Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Warehouse Optimization Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Demand Forecasting Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Quality Control Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Predictive Maintenance Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Digital Twin Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Assessment Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Recommendation Engine Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Vehicle Diagnostics Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Traffic Systems Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Network Planning Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Spectrum Optimization Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Claims Adjudication Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Visual Search Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Store Analytics Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Demand Planning Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Coaching Systems Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Recipe Recommendation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Talent Matching Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Workforce Planning Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Generative AI Solutions Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Agent Solutions Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Agent Integration Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Enterprise AI Agent Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Workflow Designer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Process Automation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Freelance AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880OpenAI API Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880Agentic AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Copilot Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Assistant Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Chatbot Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Search Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Benchmarking Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Document Understanding Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Code Generation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Reasoning Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Planning Systems Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Benchmark Developer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Data Pipeline Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Experiment Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Responsible AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI 3D Generation Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Text-to-Speech AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880Speech-to-Text AI Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Dubbing Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880ML Systems Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880ML Systems Architect$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Monitoring Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Incident Response Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Compiler Optimization Engineer$110,880$148,960$194,880AI Cloud Architect$109,760$145,600$190,400AI Customer Success Engineer$113,120$145,600$189,280Senior Magento Developer$112,000$143,360$185,920AI Training Manager$101,920$142,240$197,120AI Incident Response Analyst$97,440$140,000$184,800AI Privacy Engineer$97,440$140,000$184,800AI Enablement & Literacy Lead$112,000$137,760$179,200AI/GenAI Sales Engineer$96,320$136,640$184,800AI Sales Engineer$96,320$136,640$184,800Solutions Engineer, AI$96,320$136,640$184,800AI Solutions Engineer$96,320$136,640$184,800AI Pre-Sales Engineer$96,320$136,640$184,800AI Customer Engineer$96,320$136,640$184,800AI Field Engineer$96,320$136,640$184,800AI Demo Engineer$96,320$136,640$184,800Robotics Engineer$90,720$132,160$176,960AI Trainer / RLHF Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Training Data Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440Deep Learning Engineer$87,360$126,560$181,440AI/ML Data Analyst$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Business Intelligence Analyst$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Bias & Fairness Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Agricultural Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Model Evaluator$87,360$126,560$181,440Intelligence AI Analyst$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Trainer$87,360$126,560$181,440LLM Fine-Tuning Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440LLM Evaluator$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Ad Optimization Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Claims Processing Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Contract Analysis Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Crop Analysis Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440Network AI Optimization Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Analyst$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Consultant$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Specialist$87,360$126,560$181,440Machine Learning Analyst$87,360$126,560$181,440Machine Learning Consultant$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Model Trainer$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Data Curator$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Feature Engineer$87,360$126,560$181,440AI A/B Testing Engineer$87,360$126,560$181,440Time Series ML Engineer$87,360$126,560$181,440Graph ML Engineer$87,360$126,560$181,440Bayesian ML Engineer$87,360$126,560$181,440AI Localization Specialist$89,600$120,960$156,800AI Quality Assurance Engineer$85,120$115,360$152,320AI Testing Engineer$85,120$115,360$152,320Junior AI Engineer$98,560$115,360$133,280Junior AI Agent Engineer$98,560$115,360$133,280Junior AI Agent Architect$98,560$115,360$133,280Junior AI Compiler Engineer$98,560$115,360$133,280AI Agent QA Engineer$85,120$115,360$152,320AI Solutions Consultant$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Transformation Consultant$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Value Realization Analyst$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Roadmap Strategist$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Venture Analyst$84,000$113,120$153,440AI Workforce Planner$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Business Analyst$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Change Manager$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Adoption Manager$81,760$113,120$154,560AI Cost Analyst$84,000$113,120$153,440AI FinOps Engineer$84,000$113,120$153,440Magento Developer$87,360$112,000$145,600AI Documentation Engineer$72,800$103,040$116,480AI Transportation Planner$71,680$94,080$120,960Junior ML Engineer$76,160$92,960$110,880Junior NLP Engineer$76,160$92,960$110,880Junior LLM Engineer$76,160$92,960$110,880AI Partnership Manager$64,960$90,720$127,680AI Ecosystem Manager$64,960$90,720$127,680AI Geospatial Analyst$68,320$87,360$115,360AI Regulation Specialist$62,720$87,360$122,080AI Marketing Technologist$59,360$86,240$122,080AI Market Intelligence Analyst$59,360$86,240$122,080AI Pricing Analyst$59,360$86,240$122,080AI Procurement Analyst$62,720$85,120$115,360Technical Recruiter, AI$59,360$81,760$113,120AI Annotation Lead$54,880$61,600$70,560AI Customer Support Specialist$39,200$48,160$57,120AI Trainer / Data Annotator$38,080$44,800$53,760Salaries adjusted for Miami cost of living (+12% vs. national). 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Common questions.
The median salary across 321 ai engineering roles tracked in Miami, FL is $148,960. The full range runs from $38,080 at the entry level for the lowest-paying tracked role up to $388,640 at the top of the highest-paying tracked role. Miami sits 12% above the national average for cost-adjusted compensation.
Machine Learning Director is the highest-paying ai engineering role in Miami, with a median base salary of $299,040 when adjusted for local cost of living. Total compensation including equity and bonuses runs significantly higher at top-tier employers.
Yes. Miami is one of the active markets for AI talent in 2026. Miami has rapidly evolved from a tourism and real estate center into a legitimate tech and finance hub. AI Engineering Roles specifically benefit from local employer demand and the broader AI hiring boom that has pushed compensation up year over year.
Miami pays roughly 12% 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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