AI Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 3,848 open AI Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 813 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are ai, llm and python.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $163,875 | $200,675 | $240,162 | 712 |
| USD | hour | $35 | $57 | $68 | 22 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- ai 89%
- llm 57%
- python 53%
- machine-learning 49%
- agentic-ai 48%
- cloud 41%
- api 38%
- generative-ai 34%
How the work is done
- Remote 669 · 17%
- Hybrid 541 · 14%
- Onsite 358 · 9%
Visa sponsorship offered in 54% of the 860 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 961
- Lead 321
- Principal 210
- Staff 204
- C-level 81
- Intern 69
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 857
- 501-1000 employees 323
- 11-50 employees 134
- 51-200 employees 96
- 201-500 employees 21
- 1-10 employees 15
Staff Data and AI Engineer - Enterprise
Designs and builds enterprise-scale data pipelines, AI agent systems, and analytics for corporate platforms like Workday and Oracle, using Databricks and RAG architectures.
Senior AI Engineer – Agentic AI Platform
Designs and builds enterprise-scale Agentic AI platforms for autonomous AI agent development, deployment, monitoring, and governance using Azure AI, LangChain, and Python.
AI Software Engineer
Designs and builds integrations between AI tools and school systems like SIS/LMS, automating workflows with APIs and cloud services in AWS/GCP to enhance operations and learning.
Manager I, Engineering - Applied AI - Natural Language & Conversational Interfaces
Lead a team building AI-powered conversational interfaces and agentic systems for Datadog’s observability platform, shipping production-grade AI features from research to customer impact.
Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Lead the design, training, and deployment of GenAI/ML models to build agentic troubleshooting and incident-resolution tools for Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring product.
Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Lead the design, training, and deployment of GenAI/ML models to build agentic investigation and troubleshooting tools for Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) product, focusing on distributed tracing and telemetry data.
AI Engineer Co-Op
AI Engineer Co-Op supporting Audax's Private Equity AI initiatives—building data pipelines, developing proof-of-concept AI applications, and implementing AI governance using Python, SQL, Azure, and OpenAI tools.
Senior AI Engineer (TypeScript / Node.js / Python)- 100% Remote
Required Skills 8–11 years of software engineering experience Strong expertise in TypeScript and Node.js Strong programming experience in Python Hands-on experience with LLMs and Generative AI Experience with AI…
Principal AI Engineer
Principal AI Engineer leading a distributed team in architecting and building AI-integrated software solutions, with a focus on agentic AI, prompt engineering, and system design using Python, LLM tools, and AI agent frameworks.
Applied AI Security Engineer
Build and enforce AI-native security guardrails for an autonomous-vehicle startup, auditing tools, designing sandboxing policies, and hardening LLM integrations to prevent misuse in safety-critical systems.

Applied AI Engineer (Customer Facing)
Build and deploy enterprise-grade voice AI applications with customers, integrating APIs/SDKs and optimizing conversational AI workflows for production use.
Senior Applied AI Engineer – Enterprise Systems
Senior engineer building production AI systems that automate enterprise workflows using LLMs and orchestration frameworks, owning full lifecycle from design to deployment and operations.
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI
Architect and scale AI-powered backend systems (document extraction, entity resolution, RAG, conversational interfaces) for an AI-native asset management platform focused on healthcare and real estate, using Node.js/TypeScript and PostgreSQL.