Median maximum salary is $219,550 for software engineering AI jobs that publish a USD range, with a median floor of $152,405, on 13,345 of 29,916 live software engineering postings. Across every category the median maximum is $202,400 on 38,518 USD postings, so software engineering sits above the market. Measured September 2026.
Software Engineering AI jobs
29916 live jobs match "Software Engineering AI jobs" right now. 6,919 use, work on, or build AI, not just mention it in the posting, and the median salary starts around $147,000 a year, and the most common tools are Python, AWS, and Kubernetes.
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How much do software engineering AI jobs pay?
How many software engineering AI jobs are remote?
5,606 of 29,916 live software engineering AI jobs are remote, a 18.7% share. Across every category, 18,110 of 110,851 live jobs are remote (16.3%), so software engineering runs above the site average. Remote status is read from the posting's own location field, never inferred from the company. Measured September 2026.
Are there entry-level software engineering AI jobs?
1,578 of 29,916 live software engineering AI jobs are tagged intern or junior, and 22,997 are rated Little AI, where the work involves no AI at all. Seniority is read from the title and the posting text; 18,289 of 110,851 postings across the site do not state it, so these counts are floors. Measured September 2026.
Method: counts come from live postings in Level's catalog in the Software Engineering category. Measured September 2026. Levels follow our method.
Source: O*NET OnLine (U.S. Dept. of Labor) — Software Developers (SOC 15-1252.00).