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
Founding Applied AI Engineer- Proactive AI Agents
Founding engineer at a three-person, early-stage AI company building proactive personal AI agents that observe user context and autonomously automate workflows. You'd own zero-to-one product areas end-to-end — agent harnesses, LLM orchestration, and infrastructure — using Python, working onsite in San Francisco 5 days/week.
LLM Inference Engineer (Mid, Sr, Staff)
Optimize LLM serving infrastructure for a healthcare AI company — designing multi-node architectures, implementing quantization and speculative decoding, and using CUDA/GPU optimization to achieve sub-100ms inference responses.
Senior Agent Engineer (Langchain)
Senior engineer at software consultancy Focused building AI-enabled, production-ready apps for clients using LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith and LLMs; leads end-to-end full-stack delivery (backend services to React/Next.js UIs), pairs daily, mentors developers, and travels up to 30% within the US. Remote role, $120k–$170k base.
Food and Agriculture LLM Fellow
Food and Agriculture LLM Fellow Part-time, exempt, 20 hours/week On-campus $40,0000 / year Reports to: CAFS Director Vermont Law and Graduate School is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and…
Applied AI Research Engineer
Anori, an early-stage applied-AI startup making housing and building development more sustainable, seeks an Applied AI Research Engineer in San Mateo to prototype, benchmark, and deploy production AI systems—including agentic workflows and pipelines for regulatory and multimodal data—powering its SaaS platform end to end.
AI Engineer, RL & Evals
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…
Forward Deployed AI Software Engineer
Build enterprise integrations and scalable AI-driven solutions for Fortune 500 customers, bridging engineering, product, and client needs.
Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer
About Echelon Echelon is building the AI platform for Business Operations. Our goal is to automate the knowledge work of BizOps so one exceptional operator can deliver the leverage of an entire team, as Ramp and…
FDE / AI Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA On-Site | Full-time Compensation: $150K - $250K Our client, an elite Y Combinator-backed startup based in San Francisco, is building the software factory for the enterprise. Traditional SaaS…
Head of Product, Applied AI
About the company Our client is a public-safety technology company providing real-time situational awareness to millions of consumers and enterprise organizations. Its mobile and enterprise products help people and…
AI Engineer Internship
Employment Type : Onsite Internship Location : Dallas, TX Travel Required : TBA Paid-internship : $25/hr About Kaizen Kaizen Global is a global technology consulting firm that helps organizations unlock the full value…
Tax LLM Extern
Summary The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) seeks an LLM Extern to advance our international tax policy for the spring semester. This internship, based in Washington, DC, offers opportunities to develop skills…
Principal Applied AI Scientist
Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and…
AI Engineer Manager - Finance
The Finance AI Manager is responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of AI-enabled finance solutions for Controllership and FP&A functions across multiple client engagements. This role blends deep…
Applied ML and Generative AI Lead - Vice President
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class…
Applied ML and Generative AI Leader - Executive Director
As an Applied ML and Generative AI leader within our Corporate Technology team, you will develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. You will operate as a hands-on…