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/LLM Safety Engineer
AI/LLM Safety Engineer Own Your Impact. At Propio, we don't believe careers happen to people. We believe people create them. Here, you're trusted to make decisions, challenge assumptions, drive innovation, and shape…
Senior / Staff AI Engineer — Evals & Model Quality
FurtherAI builds agentic AI for the insurance industry and is hiring a Senior/Staff AI Engineer to own evaluation and model quality — building eval frameworks, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge graders, and benchmarking pipelines to measure and continuously improve the accuracy and reliability of its AI agents.
Applied AI Engineer
A seed-stage adtech startup in San Francisco (in-person) is hiring an Applied AI Engineer to own the agents that generate personalized playable and video ads in real time, spanning LLM/multimodal model selection, agent orchestration, evals, and backend infrastructure on GCP, Redis, MongoDB, and Temporal. Salary is $200k–$250k plus equity; visa sponsorship is not available.
AI Software Engineer-Reliability (Contract) (On-site)
Contract, on-site role in Plano, TX: diagnose and resolve complex production issues across Ziosk's Android (C++, Kotlin, React Native) and .NET pay-at-the-table platform, using AI-assisted tools, intelligent log analysis, RAG workflows, and automation to reduce MTTR and improve system reliability.
Onsite_Backend Engineer – Agentic AI & LLM Systems in AZ
Title: Senior Backend Engineer – Agentic AI & LLM Systems Location: Phoenix, AZ (Onsite) Work Arrangement: Onsite Employment Type: Contract Duration: 6 Months Primary Skills: Agentic AI, LLM, Rest API Job Summary We…
Principal AI Engineer, Media Pipelines
Senior hands-on IC who owns the architecture and technical direction of Liquid Studios' AI pipeline that turns video, audio, and text catalogs into short-form clips, multi-language dubs, and AI-discoverable formats. Day to day: orchestrating LLM, speech, and video models, owning cost/latency, building evals and quality gates, and shipping production code in Python/TypeScript on cloud.
Principal AI Engineer, Media Pipelines
About Liquid Studios Liquid Studios turns existing video, audio, and text catalogs into platform-native short-form clips, multi-language dubs, and formats that AI search and assistants can find and cite. We run it as a…
Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences)
An Applied AI Engineer on Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments team embeds with life sciences research institutions (e.g., HHMI, Allen Institute) to build Claude-powered agents, MCP servers, benchmarks, and reusable tooling that accelerate scientific research, feeding deployment learnings back to product and engineering.
Member of Technical Staff – Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Builds and ships production AI agent systems for enterprise customers: developing data pipelines, orchestration, post-training workflows, and evaluation harnesses while working directly with client researchers and engineers. Primarily on-site in San Francisco; open to new grads through senior engineers.
AI Engineer
Spectral Labs is building foundation models for engineering physical systems. We're looking for an AI engineer to build the systems that put those models to work: agents that read, edit, and generate CAD, the tool…
R&D Analytics - AI Developer
Syngenta's Analytics & Data Sciences team in Durham, NC is hiring an AI Developer to build data pipelines and AI-driven software that helps R&D scientists analyze experimental, genomic, and field data at scale. Daily work centers on Python engineering, deploying ML models on AWS, and applying LLM/agentic AI with tools like Snowflake and Databricks.
AI Product Engineer, Technology, Facilities
Rivian is hiring an AI Product Engineer to embed with its Facilities organization, building internal apps, AI agents, and workflow automations using LLM-assisted tools like Cursor, Gemini, and Claude. Day to day, they connect Facilities systems (ACC, Procore, Kahua, Databricks), own the full SDLC, and ship no-code/low-code solutions that deliver measurable time and cost savings.
AI Engineer - Senior
Senior AI/ML engineer building and deploying scalable, production-ready AI, ML, and generative AI systems for US federal government clients. Day to day involves Python development, data pipelines, MLOps/CI/CD, APIs and microservices, and model optimization on cloud platforms, requiring an active TS/SCI clearance.
Senior AI and Large Language Model (LLM) Engineer
Senior AI/LLM engineer serving as subject matter expert for a consulting team supporting NCBI (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, on-site. Day to day: designing, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs and RAG pipelines for biomedical search and knowledge discovery, guiding architecture across product teams. Core stack: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, embeddings and vector databases.
Founding AI Engineer – Computer Vision & Multimodal Models
Founding engineer at an early-stage company building AI for industrial environments. Day to day: build and deploy multimodal vision-language (VLM) systems that reason over images and video, own model orchestration and production deployment on edge/hardware-constrained devices, and design evaluation datasets and regression testing. Fully on-site in the SF Bay Area.
AI Engineer III
The AI Engineer III is a senior hands-on technical role responsible for the hands-on development, delivery and support of Agentic AI applications across the enterprise. This individual will serve as the technical lead…
Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI
Build and deploy AI-driven physics simulations and digital twins for real-world engineering problems, shipping production-ready systems that outperform traditional workflows.
Staff AI Engineer
Who is Recruiting from Scratch: Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we…