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
AI Engineer
Full-time AI Engineer at Unize, building AI workflows (agents/harnesses) in Python or JavaScript for Unize AI, a knowledge-work/collaboration platform, plus creating and running automated evaluations. Strong JavaScript full-stack developers may also build user-facing AI features, an MVP server, and a tool registry.
Staff AI Product Engineer
Founding product engineer at Deeply, a startup building an AI 'Relationship Operating System' for couples. You own customer outcomes end-to-end — problem framing, UX, architecture, implementation — working across React/Next.js, Postgres/Supabase, AI agents, SMS, notifications, and background jobs.
LLM & AI Agent Engineer cum Manager
Builds and manages LLM-powered sales agents — multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and proposal-generation features — for LeadsPipe, an AI sales co-pilot for enterprise and EPC firms. Day to day: Python agent development, prompt chains, evals, and optimizing latency/token cost across LLM providers.
Strategy & Ops Lead, Applied AI
Hands-on individual contributor role owning Clipboard's Ops internal tooling ecosystem: acting like a product manager to prioritize, configure, and improve support platforms, AI-driven tools, and internal automations, partnering with engineers but writing no production code. Clipboard is a remote-first healthcare staffing marketplace.
Backend + AI Engineer
Own the server side of a mobile-first startup: a TypeScript/Node backend (Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, Socket.io) plus a Python/FastAPI multi-agent AI service built on PydanticAI with Claude, Gemini, and GCP. Mostly TypeScript day-to-day, with independent AI work and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
AI Product Engineer, 2027 New Grad
Brain Co. is hiring a 2027 new-grad AI Product Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area to design, build, and ship AI-powered production applications for government, healthcare, and industrial clients. Day-to-day is full-stack work across front-end, back-end, and data workflows using Python, TypeScript, React, REST APIs, SQL, and cloud platforms, integrating AI models into real-world systems.
LLM Platform Engineer
Senior engineer owning the AI platform at AllSpice: building evaluation/observability tooling, data pipelines, and internal apps that power its generative AI products for hardware/circuit design. Stack: Python, TypeScript, SQL/Postgres, Langchain/Langfuse, Vue, GitHub Actions, Docker/Terraform on AWS.
AI Engineer
Emergence AI is seeking an AI-native engineer to build and deploy enterprise-grade AI agents that handle complex reasoning and automation. The role involves working across the stack to develop agent orchestration, memory systems, and trustworthy AI workflows for data-intensive industries.
Data and AI Engineer
Join us in Seattle and help shape how Sellen builds with data and AI. Sellen Construction is looking for a Data and AI Engineer to help automate manual work across the business. Reporting to the Director of Technology,…
AI Product Engineer (Claude Code)
Swivl, a fast-growing startup building AI-powered web, SMS, and voice agents for the self-storage industry, is hiring an AI Product Engineer to ship platform features using Claude Code as a core development tool. The role blends prompt engineering, LLM workflow design, code review, and documentation alongside Product, Engineering, and Design.
AI Engineer
Second engineer on Ariadne, ArrePath's LLM-based AI scientific assistant that gives drug-discovery scientists natural-language access to ML models and cheminformatics tools. You own work end to end — designing, building with coding agents, testing, and shipping — improving agent memory, reasoning, tool execution, and the TypeScript chat UI.
Staff AI Engineer
Job Summary This Staff AI Engineer role sits at the intersection of AI systems architecture and full-stack product engineering within CMG's AI & ML Engineering org. The person in this seat is the technical anchor for…
Remote | Senior Software Engineer – LLM Evaluation (US/Canada/WEU based)
We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced software engineers to contribute to advanced large language model evaluation, coding benchmark development, and AI-assisted…
Remote | Senior Software Engineer – LLM Evaluation
We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced Senior Software Engineers to contribute to advanced large language model evaluation, coding benchmark development, and AI-assisted…
Remote | Senior Software Engineer – LLM Evaluation & Repository Validation
We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced Senior Software Engineers with tech-lead-level expertise to contribute to advanced LLM evaluation, repository validation, and realistic…
Senior Engineering Manager, Applied AI
First engineering manager for Genius AI's Applied AI team: a hands-on leader who manages a lean team while personally prototyping agentic AI systems and evals, embedded with sales, marketing, and ops to ship AI that moves business metrics, then hands it off. In-office 3–4 days/week in NYC or San Francisco.
Applied AI Engineer
Builds production AI agents for Unify's AI-native outbound sales platform: designing agent harnesses (planning, tool execution, context, memory), shipping features end to end, and using evals and execution traces to improve quality. Needs 3+ years of software engineering, LLM/agent production experience, and strong TypeScript or Python.