AI Engineering Jobs in United States
There are 3,837 open AI Engineering jobs in United States on freehire right now. 837 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 667 · 17%
- Hybrid 538 · 14%
- Onsite 352 · 9%
Visa sponsorship offered in 54% of the 856 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 959
- Lead 322
- Principal 210
- Staff 202
- C-level 81
- Intern 69
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 855
- 501-1000 employees 322
- 11-50 employees 133
- 51-200 employees 96
- 201-500 employees 21
- 1-10 employees 15
Software Engineer, Applied AI
Build core infrastructure primitives—authorization, audit, orchestration, and domain models—for an AI compute platform, making AI agents first-class operators of data center systems using LLM APIs and agentic frameworks.
Engineering Manager – Applied AI
Engineering Manager leading an Applied AI team that builds LLM/agent-based tools to accelerate nuclear engineering workflows (licensing, safety analysis, design) at a uranium enrichment company, using Python and modern AI techniques.
Sr AI Engineer II - Agentic AI
Architect and implement RAG pipelines and agentic AI systems powered by LLMs, owning production system reliability, latency, and cost.
Sr Staff AI Engineer - Veza
Architect and operate production-grade agentic AI systems for identity security and access management at enterprise scale, using Python, RAG pipelines, and frontier AI SDKs.
GenAI Front-End Engineer - Hybrid
The GenAI Front-End Engineer will build a reusable conversational and analytics UI for a global biotechnology company, focusing on integrating AI-driven experiences into existing host products.
Staff AI Software Engineer
Builds and maintains the AI and data platform that powers Afresh's grocery-focused products, focusing on retrieval, agent systems, and evaluation infrastructure for LLMs.
Senior AI Software Engineer
Senior engineer builds and operates the AI platform that turns raw grocery data into reliable context for LLMs and agent systems, including retrieval layers, evaluation harnesses, and production serving infrastructure.
AI Engineer - SDLC Process Improvement
An AI Engineer focused on improving software development workflows by integrating AI tools to automate code review, testing, and deployment, enhancing efficiency and quality across engineering teams.
Applied AI Engineer - Manager
Player-coach Engineering Manager leading a small team of Applied AI Engineers who embed with enterprise customers to ship production AI systems using Python, TypeScript, and LLM/agent tooling, based in NYC with moderate travel.
Applied AI
Building AI agents that perform real accounting work, owning LLM orchestration, evaluation pipelines, and agent workflows for daily customer use.
GENAI Architect
The GenAI Architect leads end-to-end client delivery and technical direction for an agentic AI platform. The role involves translating business requirements into architecture using RAG pipelines, MCP connectors, and hybrid orchestration across various enterprise systems.
GenAI Software Development Engineer
Build and maintain an autonomous AI agent platform for hardware validation, designing LLM agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, and developer tooling to automate testing and knowledge management without human intervention.
Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI
Builds and scales AI-driven features for public safety and government clients, using Python, React, and AWS to turn data into real-time operational intelligence.