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
Generative AI Engineer
Designs, builds, and operates grounded LLM/RAG decision-support tools that let government health payer clients search large bodies of program documentation in natural language. Day to day: document ingestion and vector-search pipelines, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks on AWS using Python, Bedrock, OpenSearch, and LangChain/LlamaIndex.
AI Engineer, Physical Systems and Sensing
Build AI-driven test and validation systems for defense hardware and sensors, using Python, LLMs, and anomaly detection to automate root cause analysis and monitor physical systems.
Software Engineer, Applied AI
Build and deploy AI/ML systems for defense applications, integrating models into production software under adversarial and constrained conditions.
AI Engineer, Product
Hands-on AI engineer at Welltower (a healthcare/wellness real estate company) building agent-driven tools, interfaces, and workflow tooling for internal teams — owning agent behavior and product surface end to end, iterating fast on real data with users. On-site in NYC; 6+ years shipping production software required.
AI Engineer, Platform and Data
Builds the core AI platform at Welltower: scalable data pipelines, the LLM/agent orchestration layer, and the APIs other engineers build on, while owning data integrity, security, and governance for sensitive data. Hands-on, on-site role in NYC at a healthcare/wellness real estate company.
Principal AI Software Engineer
Overview Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware and systems designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines technical capabilities,…
AI Developer I
Job ID: 2026_10_AIDI Role/Title: AI Developer I Priority: High – Immediate Hire Hybrid Opportunity - Must be local to the DC/VA/MD area and available to work onsite when needed. Clearance Requirement: Public Trust…
AI Engineer – Routing & Network Optimization
Builds and owns the routing and network optimization engine behind Gallatin's AI-driven defense logistics platform: designing time-phased, capacity-constrained routing models, implementing and tuning exact/heuristic solvers in Python, and integrating them into production batch and real-time planning pipelines. Core skills: operations research, graph theory, and solvers like Pyomo, CPLEX, or Gurobi
Lead AI Engineer (Finance Transformation, LN Venues)
Venue Nation is seeking a technical leader to help transform how our Finance organization operates - from automating complex workflows to enabling smarter decision-making at scale You will partner directly with Finance…
Staff AI Engineer - Enterprise Architecture
At American Express, AI is reshaping the future of commerce and redefining the experiences our commercial customers and card members expect. Within Amex Technology, we are building platforms, products, and governance…
Program Leader, GenAI & Voice AI Innovation
About the Role The Program Leader, GenAI & Voice AI Innovation sits within the Global Digital Experience (GDX) team — the digital service design arm of the global CommOps organization. This role owns the end-to-end…
Senior AI Developer
MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented AI Developer to join our team. This role requires hands-on technical expertise, collaboration across teams, and a commitment to delivering high-quality solutions.…
Lead AI Engineer (Camgian Labs)
As a Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer for Camgian Labs, you will lead a highly technical team developing next-generation AI/ML capabilities for national security missions. You will remain an active technical…
Amazon Principal Applied AI Architect, Applied AI & Data Architecture
Do you want to help customers build AI agents that change how work gets done? As a Principal, Solutions Architect in AWS, you will design and productionize agentic systems using services like Amazon Bedrock and…
Amazon Applied Scientist-LLM, Buy For Me
Do you want to shape the next generation of AI-driven customer experiences for Amazon’s most ground-breaking products? Join us and help invent the future of shopping. We are seeking a passionate, innovative, and highly…
Senior AI Engineer – Agentic AI & Generative AI
Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the…