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
Staff AI Research Engineer
Staff AI Research Engineer at Lovelace will lead design and productionization of advanced AI models and pipelines for the Elemental context engine — multimodal data ingestion, entity resolution, knowledge graph construction, and agentic search. Work centers on ML frameworks like PyTorch/TensorFlow, Kubernetes-based model serving, and MLOps, with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration. Full-t
Lead AI Software Engineer
Lead engineer at HP's new AI innovation lab (HP IQ) designing backend services that run AI workloads across cloud and edge devices. Day to day: build APIs, microservices, and an agent-orchestration runtime for LLMs, plus data pipelines, security, and observability — mainly with Java, C++, or Python.
Senior AI Software Engineer
Senior engineer at HP's AI innovation lab building backend services that run AI workloads across edge devices and cloud. Day to day: designing scalable microservices and APIs, optimizing data pipelines for real-time inference, and building an agent orchestration runtime for LLM tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning using Java, C++, or Python.
Senior Applied AI Engineer 2
Research-focused Senior Applied AI Engineer at Drata, a compliance-automation platform, improving how its AI products retrieve, reason, and respond. Day to day: designing and evaluating RAG/agentic and classic ML approaches, building eval frameworks and ranking/reranking systems, and running experiments in Python. Hybrid role in San Francisco.
Onsite_Inperson Interview_Agentic AI Automation Engineer_ Menlo Park, California
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Applied AI Architect, Startups
The Applied AI Architect partners with startups to help them build and scale applications using the Claude Developer Platform. This role involves technical advising, designing AI architectures, and guiding founders through the adoption journey from evaluation to production.
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI (Remote)
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Rula (mental health care) embeds with business and clinical teams to learn their workflows and ship AI-powered tools that cut hours-long manual tasks to minutes, then converts learnings into reusable building blocks. Core work centers on LLM-based tooling, coding agents, evals, and privacy-by-design.
Generative AI Applications Engineer (Agents & RAG)
At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the…
Lead AI Engineer
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Software Engineer, Applied AI
At Shepherd, a Series B insurtech rebuilding commercial insurance, you'll design and ship production AI systems — LLM-powered features, AI agents, and RAG pipelines — that power underwriting and pricing, working across the Node.js/TypeScript, React/Next.js, GraphQL, Postgres/Redis stack.
AI Engineer
SUMMARY: The AI Engineer makes Saturn's data decision-ready. The role builds one reliable data foundation across SAP S/4HANA, Ignition, Excel, and external market data, automates the reporting produced from it, and…
AI Engineer
On-site AI Engineer at Twin Prime, an AI lab building real-time reasoning systems over sensor data for defense and security. Day to day: implement and fine-tune deep learning models (video, spatial, multimodal), build training/eval pipelines, and optimize inference for constrained hardware using Python and PyTorch.
Applied AI Engineer - Technology Consultant
Senior AI engineer consults enterprise clients to deploy intelligent agents and LLM solutions using Celonis’ Process Intelligence platform, driving measurable ROI and adoption.
Staff AI Engineer
Lead the design and delivery of AI/ML systems, owning architecture decisions and driving solutions from research through production at scale using Python, AWS, and generative AI tools.
Applied AI Engineer
Designs, trains, and deploys vision and multimodal AI models (including VLMs and world models) that process live retail video across thousands of stores in real time. Core stack: Python/C++/CUDA, PyTorch, OpenCV, TensorRT/ONNX, Docker/Kubernetes.