AI Engineering Roles · Seattle, WA
AI Engineering Roles salary in Seattle.
321 roles tracked. Median $164,920. 24% above national.
$42,160
Low
$164,920
Median
$430,280
High
Seattle is home to Amazon, Microsoft, and a dense cluster of cloud computing, gaming, and AI companies. The presence of major tech headquarters drives some of the highest engineering salaries outside the Bay Area. Seattle's job market is particularly strong for cloud infrastructure, machine learning, and enterprise software roles.
Washington State has no personal income tax, which significantly boosts take home pay. However, state and local sales taxes are among the highest in the country at roughly 10.25%.
Remind employers that no state income tax makes your effective compensation higher. You can accept a slightly lower gross salary and still take home more than in California.
AI Engineering Roles ranked by pay in Seattle.
RoleLowMedianHigh
Machine Learning Director$281,480$331,080$430,280AI Protein Structure Specialist$213,280$272,800$354,640AI Technical Lead$223,200$260,400$313,720ML Technical Lead$223,200$260,400$313,720Staff AI Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Principal AI Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Staff AI Agent Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Principal AI Agent Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Staff AI Agent Architect$223,200$260,400$313,720Principal AI Agent Architect$223,200$260,400$313,720Staff AI Compiler Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Principal AI Compiler Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Lead Radiology AI Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Lead KYC/AML Engineer$223,200$260,400$313,720Lead Contract AI Developer$223,200$260,400$313,720Staff ML Engineer$210,800$259,160$334,800Principal ML Engineer$210,800$259,160$334,800Staff NLP Engineer$210,800$259,160$334,800Principal NLP Engineer$210,800$259,160$334,800Staff LLM Engineer$210,800$259,160$334,800Principal LLM Engineer$210,800$259,160$334,800EV Battery AI Optimization Engineer$198,400$254,200$331,080AI Business Development Manager$167,400$243,040$328,600Route Optimization AI Specialist$183,520$235,600$306,280Humanoid Robotics Engineer$173,600$233,120$307,520Senior AI Chip Designer$207,080$229,400$256,680AI Inventory Optimization Specialist$173,600$223,200$290,160AI Data Labeling Manager$159,960$212,040$276,520AI Transformation Officer$159,960$212,040$276,520AI Environment Manager$159,960$212,040$276,520Model Registry Manager$159,960$212,040$276,520Engineering Manager, AI$159,960$212,040$276,520Prompt Operations Manager$159,960$212,040$276,520AI Agent Operations Manager$159,960$212,040$276,520AI Manager$159,960$212,040$276,520Machine Learning Manager$159,960$212,040$276,520AI Transformation Lead$177,320$210,800$262,880AI Operations Lead$161,200$210,800$272,800AI Adoption Lead$177,320$210,800$262,880AI Change Management Lead$177,320$210,800$262,880Senior AI Engineer$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior AI Agent Engineer$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior AI Agent Architect$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior AI Compiler Engineer$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior Radiology AI Engineer$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior KYC/AML Engineer$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior Contract AI Developer$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior AI Developer$182,280$209,560$243,040Senior ML Systems Engineer$182,280$209,560$243,040AI Learning Experience Designer$159,960$204,600$266,600No-Code AI Specialist$159,960$204,600$266,600Senior ML Engineer$159,960$193,440$235,600Senior NLP Engineer$159,960$193,440$235,600Senior LLM Engineer$159,960$193,440$235,600Senior Azure AI Engineer$159,960$193,440$235,600Senior GCP ML Engineer$159,960$193,440$235,600AI Hardware/Chip Design Engineer$136,400$192,200$235,600AI Hardware Engineer$136,400$192,200$235,600AI Chip Designer$136,400$192,200$235,600AI Semiconductor Test Engineer$136,400$192,200$235,600AI Chipset Designer$136,400$192,200$235,600AI Chip Architect$136,400$192,200$235,600AI Accelerator Engineer$136,400$192,200$235,600AI Auditor$142,600$186,000$241,800AI Recruitment Specialist$140,120$179,800$234,360AI Transparency Lead$147,560$179,800$228,160AI Trust and Safety Lead$147,560$179,800$228,160AI Reasoning Specialist$120,280$174,840$231,880AI Agent Designer$135,160$173,600$225,680AI Vendor Manager$127,720$173,600$224,440AI Data Engineer$128,960$168,640$217,000Data Architect (AI/ML)$128,960$168,640$217,000AI Analytics Engineer$128,960$168,640$217,000Data Pipeline Engineer (ML)$128,960$168,640$217,000AI Data Quality Engineer$128,960$168,640$217,000Knowledge Graph Engineer$128,960$168,640$217,000Responsible AI Lead$140,120$168,640$212,040Machine Learning Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760ML Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760NLP Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Computer Vision Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760LLM Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760LLM Fine-Tuning Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Solutions Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760Generative AI Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760Robotics AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Agent Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760Edge AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Agentic Orchestrator$122,760$164,920$215,760Full Stack AI Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Systems Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Application Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Backend Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Frontend Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Embedded AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Firmware Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI API Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Microservices Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Integration Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Real-Time AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Compiler Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Model Distillation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760ML Pipeline Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Speech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Chatbot Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Localization Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760LiDAR AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Robotic Process Automation Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760Motion Planning AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Manipulation AI Specialist$122,760$164,920$215,760Robot Perception Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Agent Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Workflow Automation Specialist$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Simulation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Embodied AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Neuro AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760On-Device AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Wearables Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Spatial Computing AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Personal Assistant Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Workflow Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Fairness Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760LLM Operations Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Digital Twin Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760Developer Advocate, AI$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Accessibility Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Incident Commander$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Data Marketplace Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Knowledge Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Telecom Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Computer Vision Applications Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760NLP Applications Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Model Compression Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Search Ranking Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Embedded Systems Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Agent Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Systems Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760ML Solutions Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760Generative AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Evaluation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760TinyML Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760GovTech ML Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Workflow Automation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Prompt Operations Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Spatial Computing Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Tutor Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760Consulting ML Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Telecom ML Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Model Serving Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Training Data Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Founding ML Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Diagnostics Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Digital Therapeutics AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760MarTech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760SaaS AI Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760Adaptive Learning AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760InsurTech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Underwriting Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AgTech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI NPC Designer$122,760$164,920$215,760Telecom AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760HRTech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760GovTech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Building Design Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760FoodTech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Space Tech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Digital Health AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Spatial AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760LLM Ops Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Model Registry Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Carbon Capture AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760Chatbot Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI CRM Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Customer Support Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Email Marketing Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Pricing Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Revenue Optimization Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Accounting Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Payroll Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Audit Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Expense Management Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Credit Scoring Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Lending Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Document Review Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Property Valuation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Fleet Management Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Warehouse Optimization Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Demand Forecasting Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Quality Control Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Predictive Maintenance Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Digital Twin Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Assessment Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Recommendation Engine Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Vehicle Diagnostics Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Traffic Systems Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Network Planning Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Spectrum Optimization Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Claims Adjudication Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Visual Search Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Store Analytics Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Demand Planning Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Coaching Systems Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Recipe Recommendation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Talent Matching Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Workforce Planning Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Generative AI Solutions Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Agent Solutions Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Agent Integration Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Enterprise AI Agent Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Workflow Designer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Process Automation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Freelance AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760OpenAI API Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760Agentic AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Copilot Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Assistant Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Chatbot Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Search Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Benchmarking Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Document Understanding Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Code Generation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Reasoning Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Planning Systems Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Benchmark Developer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Data Pipeline Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Experiment Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Responsible AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI 3D Generation Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Text-to-Speech AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760Speech-to-Text AI Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Dubbing Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760ML Systems Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760ML Systems Architect$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Monitoring Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Incident Response Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Compiler Optimization Engineer$122,760$164,920$215,760AI Cloud Architect$121,520$161,200$210,800AI Customer Success Engineer$125,240$161,200$209,560Senior Magento Developer$124,000$158,720$205,840AI Training Manager$112,840$157,480$218,240AI Incident Response Analyst$107,880$155,000$204,600AI Privacy Engineer$107,880$155,000$204,600AI Enablement & Literacy Lead$124,000$152,520$198,400AI/GenAI Sales Engineer$106,640$151,280$204,600AI Sales Engineer$106,640$151,280$204,600Solutions Engineer, AI$106,640$151,280$204,600AI Solutions Engineer$106,640$151,280$204,600AI Pre-Sales Engineer$106,640$151,280$204,600AI Customer Engineer$106,640$151,280$204,600AI Field Engineer$106,640$151,280$204,600AI Demo Engineer$106,640$151,280$204,600Robotics Engineer$100,440$146,320$195,920AI Trainer / RLHF Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Training Data Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880Deep Learning Engineer$96,720$140,120$200,880AI/ML Data Analyst$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Business Intelligence Analyst$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Bias & Fairness Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Agricultural Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Model Evaluator$96,720$140,120$200,880Intelligence AI Analyst$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Trainer$96,720$140,120$200,880LLM Fine-Tuning Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880LLM Evaluator$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Ad Optimization Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Claims Processing Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Contract Analysis Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Crop Analysis Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880Network AI Optimization Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Analyst$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Consultant$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Specialist$96,720$140,120$200,880Machine Learning Analyst$96,720$140,120$200,880Machine Learning Consultant$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Model Trainer$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Data Curator$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Feature Engineer$96,720$140,120$200,880AI A/B Testing Engineer$96,720$140,120$200,880Time Series ML Engineer$96,720$140,120$200,880Graph ML Engineer$96,720$140,120$200,880Bayesian ML Engineer$96,720$140,120$200,880AI Localization Specialist$99,200$133,920$173,600AI Quality Assurance Engineer$94,240$127,720$168,640AI Testing Engineer$94,240$127,720$168,640Junior AI Engineer$109,120$127,720$147,560Junior AI Agent Engineer$109,120$127,720$147,560Junior AI Agent Architect$109,120$127,720$147,560Junior AI Compiler Engineer$109,120$127,720$147,560AI Agent QA Engineer$94,240$127,720$168,640AI Solutions Consultant$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Transformation Consultant$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Value Realization Analyst$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Roadmap Strategist$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Venture Analyst$93,000$125,240$169,880AI Workforce Planner$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Business Analyst$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Change Manager$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Adoption Manager$90,520$125,240$171,120AI Cost Analyst$93,000$125,240$169,880AI FinOps Engineer$93,000$125,240$169,880Magento Developer$96,720$124,000$161,200AI Documentation Engineer$80,600$114,080$128,960AI Transportation Planner$79,360$104,160$133,920Junior ML Engineer$84,320$102,920$122,760Junior NLP Engineer$84,320$102,920$122,760Junior LLM Engineer$84,320$102,920$122,760AI Partnership Manager$71,920$100,440$141,360AI Ecosystem Manager$71,920$100,440$141,360AI Geospatial Analyst$75,640$96,720$127,720AI Regulation Specialist$69,440$96,720$135,160AI Marketing Technologist$65,720$95,480$135,160AI Market Intelligence Analyst$65,720$95,480$135,160AI Pricing Analyst$65,720$95,480$135,160AI Procurement Analyst$69,440$94,240$127,720Technical Recruiter, AI$65,720$90,520$125,240AI Annotation Lead$60,760$68,200$78,120AI Customer Support Specialist$43,400$53,320$63,240AI Trainer / Data Annotator$42,160$49,600$59,520Salaries adjusted for Seattle cost of living (+24% vs. national). 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Common questions.
The median salary across 321 ai engineering roles tracked in Seattle, WA is $164,920. The full range runs from $42,160 at the entry level for the lowest-paying tracked role up to $430,280 at the top of the highest-paying tracked role. Seattle sits 24% above the national average for cost-adjusted compensation.
Machine Learning Director is the highest-paying ai engineering role in Seattle, with a median base salary of $331,080 when adjusted for local cost of living. Total compensation including equity and bonuses runs significantly higher at top-tier employers.
Yes. Seattle is one of the active markets for AI talent in 2026. Seattle is home to Amazon, Microsoft, and a dense cluster of cloud computing, gaming, and AI companies. AI Engineering Roles specifically benefit from local employer demand and the broader AI hiring boom that has pushed compensation up year over year.
Seattle pays roughly 24% 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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