How to hire an AI engineer
"AI engineer" means very different things at different companies — from wiring a chatbot to a vendor API, to building training infrastructure. Right now, 297 live postings on Level match the title, and 258 of them are rated L3 or L4 — genuinely AI-heavy rather than the title alone.
Who else is hiring right now
- OpenAI35 open roles
- Mastercard15 open roles
- NVIDIA11 open roles
- Airwallex9 open roles
- Cloudera9 open roles
What the current market looks like
- Remote
- 54% of live AI engineer postings (161 of 297) are remote.
- Published salary
- Median posted minimum: $197,000, from 123 postings that publish a USD salary (41% of the total).
Where to post the role
A rated board filters candidates before they apply: on Level, the job carries its Level 1–4 rating from day one, so an applicant already knows whether the role matches the depth of AI work they want. Post an AI engineer role on Level (flat fee, 30-day listing, $299).
Method
- Scope: Live postings on Level's own database matching the AI engineer title scope (status = live).
- Sample: 297 postings, 123 with a published USD salary.
- Measured: September 2026, read live on every page render.
- Currency: USD, no conversions.
- Not measured: Postings on other boards for the same title: not aggregated here, so no cross-board count is claimed.