AI Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 3,909 open AI Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 1,111 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 | $173,950 | $210,000 | $244,875 | 567 |
| USD | hour | $25 | $38 | $55 | 25 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- ai 96%
- llm 70%
- python 65%
- machine-learning 58%
- agentic-ai 56%
- cloud 51%
- api 48%
- rag 38%
How the work is done
- Remote 723 · 18%
- Hybrid 603 · 15%
- Onsite 562 · 14%
Visa sponsorship offered in 53% of the 469 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 850
- Lead 328
- Staff 234
- Principal 200
- Intern 139
- C-level 114
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 348
- 501-1000 employees 148
- 11-50 employees 71
- 51-200 employees 42
- 1-10 employees 12
- 201-500 employees 12
Applied AI Research Engineer
Owns the intelligence layer of Starburst's AIDA agents — building RAG/retrieval pipelines, data grounding systems, and evaluation frameworks so natural-language answers over enterprise data are accurate and measurably improving. Core stack: Python, LLM APIs, vector databases, embedding models, shipping weekly with startup speed.
Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI (RCM)
Senior engineer on Commure's RCM AI team building LLM-powered agents that automate healthcare revenue-cycle workflows (claims submission, denials/appeals, document extraction), owning features end-to-end from prompt design and evals to production infrastructure. Stack includes Python/Go/C++, JavaScript frontend, GCP/AWS, Docker/Kubernetes.
Staff Software Engineer - AI/Agent Engineer, Care Automation
Toast is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build AI-powered automations and agentic workflows for its restaurant customer-care systems, integrating LLM-based systems with Salesforce Service Cloud, Amazon Connect, and iPaaS tools. Day to day you design, ship, test, and monitor production AI systems in Python, Java, or Go.
AI Product Engineer
AI Product Engineer at a Series A legal-AI startup in San Francisco, building automation for plaintiff law firms (medical chronologies, demand letters, record retrieval). The role owns AI-driven product quality end-to-end, works directly with customers, and uses Python/JavaScript, ML, and cloud platforms. In-person, with H-1B/OPT sponsorship available.
Threat Intel - AI / LLM Trainer - Make Your Own Hours
Evaluate AI-generated cybersecurity threat responses using human feedback to train and refine models that detect and mitigate evolving cyber threats.
Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI
Build and scale Scale GP, an enterprise-grade GenAI platform with APIs for knowledge retrieval, inference, and evaluation, working across backend, frontend, and LLM integrations.
Strategic Projects Lead, Generative AI
Lead cross-functional AI projects to drive new revenue, partnering with engineering and GTM teams while managing data labeling operations for strategic customers.
Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
Build and deploy production AI agents that combine frontier models with enterprise data and software, designing reasoning systems, retrieval pipelines, and multi-agent workflows for Fortune 100 clients.
Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
Build and deploy production AI agents that automate workflows, reason over enterprise data, and integrate with customer systems using LLMs, retrieval, and traditional ML.
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
Design and deploy production AI agents that combine frontier models, retrieval, and structured knowledge to automate complex workflows for enterprise customers across industries like finance and healthcare.
AI Engineer
LiveX AI · AI Engineer (Machine Learning Engineer) Palo Alto, CA · Full-time, on-site · Department: Engineering Source: (posted May 27, 2026) About the Role LiveX AI is building realtime, interactive AI avatars:…
Senior AI Engineer
We’re seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and optimize advanced artificial intelligence solutions that drive innovation and efficiency across AbsenceSoft’s leave management…
AI Engineer, Marketing
At Instructure , we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development,…
Staff AI Engineer - Data & Portfolio Planning
We are seeking a highly experienced Staff AI Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and delivery of next-generation AI, data, and analytics solutions for product portfolio planning and investment…
AI Automation Engineer, Finance & Operations
Apptegy is hiring an AI Automation Engineer to build AI-powered workflows and system integrations across finance and operations. Day to day: automating processes and moving data between NetSuite, Salesforce, Snowflake and similar tools using Claude/Claude Code, N8N, Python, SQL, and APIs — a hands-on builder role, not traditional software engineering.
Mid Level AI Engineer
Capco is hiring a Mid Level AI Engineer in Orlando, FL (hybrid) to design, build, and deploy production-grade generative AI applications using LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic architectures. Day-to-day work centers on Python backend services, REST APIs, vector databases, and cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/GCP.
Senior AI Engineer – Human–AI Systems
Who We Are Aptima is a technological leader in the national security industry. Our mission is to drive the future of national security by engineering scalable solutions that fuse technological innovation with human…
AI Engineer
At a proprietary options market-making firm, you'll build agent tooling and shared AI infrastructure (inference, tracing, integrations, access controls) used by engineers, quants, and traders, and prototype agent uses in research, simulation, and trading. Core work spans LLM/agent APIs with Python, C++, and/or Java.