Salaries//Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer salary in US

Average Base Salary in US

$152,812
$27,871
Additional Cash Compensation
$180,683
Total Compensation
Median: 155,000
Min: $87K
Max: $278K

How Much Does a Machine Learning Engineer Make in US?

The average salary for a Machine Learning Engineer in US is $152,812. The average additional cash compensation for a Machine Learning Engineer in US is $27,871. The average total compensation for a Machine Learning Engineer in US is $180,683. Machine Learning Engineer salaries are based on responses gathered by Built In from anonymous Machine Learning Engineer employees in US.

Machine Learning Engineer
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best-paying cities for Machine Learning Engineer

The metropolitan areas that pay the highest salaries for software engineers are Austin, Chicago, San Francisco, Remote and Colorado.
City NameAverage SalaryCompared to National Average
Austin, TX$204,500
+ 25% (152,499)
Chicago, IL$203,750
+ 25% (152,499)
San Francisco, CA$183,176
+ 17% (152,499)
Remote$180,750
+ 16% (152,499)
Colorado, CO$180,000
+ 15% (152,499)
Los Angeles, CA$168,333
+ 9% (152,499)
Seattle, WA$167,375
+ 9% (152,499)
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX$161,571
+ 6% (152,499)
Greater Boulder Area$160,000
+ 5% (152,499)
Omaha, NE$157,500
+ 3% (152,499)

Machine Learning Engineer Salary by gender

The average Machine Learning Engineer salary for women is $153,147 and the average Machine Learning Engineer salary for men is $136,326.

Machine Learning Engineer Salary by Years of Experience

The average salary for a Machine Learning Engineer with 7+ years of experience is $178,077. The average salary for <1 year of experience is $120,571.

Machine Learning Engineer Salary ranges

The most common Machine Learning Engineer salary in US is between $160k - $170k.

Average Dev + Engineer salaries in US

Job TitleAverage SalarySalary Range
Wordpress Developer$71,129
Min: $55K
Max: $96K
Junior Web Developer$75,699
Min: $64K
Max: $93K
Web Developer$78,608
Min: $72K
Max: $84K
Implementation Specialist$78,995
Min: $38K
Max: $235K
Junior Software Developer$82,749
Min: $77K
Max: $95K
QA Analyst$84,126
Min: $42K
Max: $175K
Network Engineer$86,626
Min: $78K
Max: $105K
App Developer$88,326
Min: $79K
Max: $120K
Test Engineer$88,826
Min: $81K
Max: $115K
RPA Developer$89,414
Min: $80K
Max: $127K
Junior Software Engineer$90,253
Min: $42K
Max: $165K
IT Engineer$90,499
Min: $75K
Max: $117K
Application Engineer$90,886
Min: $80K
Max: $121K
React Developer$93,048
Min: $85K
Max: $120K
Design Engineer$94,330
Min: $83K
Max: $116K
Tableau Developer$94,349
Min: $87K
Max: $121K
Full Stack Developer$94,361
Min: $85K
Max: $119K
Back End Developer$95,176
Min: $87K
Max: $104K
Java Developer$95,216
Min: $87K
Max: $116K
SQL Developer$96,485
Min: $89K
Max: $119K
Blockchain Developer$96,708
Min: $90K
Max: $122K
QA Engineer$98,305
Min: $40K
Max: $210K
Power BI Developer$100,015
Min: $95K
Max: $107K
Software Test Engineer$100,525
Min: $55K
Max: $175K
Robotics Engineer$100,526
Min: $89K
Max: $138K
AWS Developer$101,157
Min: $92K
Max: $132K
Javascript Developer$102,449
Min: $84K
Max: $119K
Python Developer$102,598
Min: $95K
Max: $117K
Database Developer$102,840
Min: $90K
Max: $150K
Aerospace Engineer$103,572
Min: $94K
Max: $120K
AI Engineer$106,407
Min: $80K
Max: $145K
Front End Developer$109,055
Min: $37K
Max: $330K
Cloud Engineer$109,862
Min: $102K
Max: $141K
Cloud Security Engineer$110,768
Min: $95K
Max: $144K
Cybersecurity Engineer$111,195
Min: $100K
Max: $127K
Automation Engineer$111,281
Min: $10K
Max: $240K
Android Developer$111,497
Min: $60K
Max: $310K
Salesforce Developer$113,227
Min: $55K
Max: $221K
Game Developer$116,715
Min: $65K
Max: $214K
iOS Developer$118,367
Min: $52K
Max: $391K
Senior Systems Engineer$120,524
Min: $110K
Max: $160K
Business Intelligence Developer$122,000
Min: $122K
Max: $122K
Systems Engineer$123,317
Min: $65K
Max: $221K
Data Engineer$124,138
Min: $50K
Max: $275K
Sales Engineer$125,498
Min: $55K
Max: $305K
Senior Software Developer$126,640
Min: $112K
Max: $150K
Software Developer$126,689
Min: $88K
Max: $246K
Security Engineer$126,836
Min: $61K
Max: $280K
Site Reliability Engineer$129,405
Min: $70K
Max: $300K
Quant Developer$130,909
Min: $127K
Max: $142K
Database Administrator$131,093
Min: $69K
Max: $260K
QA Manager$131,198
Min: $78K
Max: $260K
DevOps Engineer$132,824
Min: $50K
Max: $325K
Hardware Engineer$135,442
Min: $64K
Max: $253K
Senior Data Engineer$136,569
Min: $90K
Max: $254K
Software Engineer$140,052
Min: $60K
Max: $325K
Data Architect$145,235
Min: $70K
Max: $279K
Senior Software Engineer$150,688
Min: $70K
Max: $366K
Lead Software Engineer$152,541
Min: $44K
Max: $450K
Machine Learning Engineer$152,812
Min: $87K
Max: $278K
Data Engineering Manager$162,386
Min: $110K
Max: $279K
Engineering Manager$168,005
Min: $77K
Max: $531K
Principal Software Engineer$168,664
Min: $86K
Max: $375K
Director of Software Engineering$191,912
Min: $111K
Max: $420K
Vice President of Engineering$221,724
Min: $144K
Max: $500K
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)$222,266
Min: $80K
Max: $575K
CIO (Chief Information Officer)$226,216
Min: $96K
Max: $400K

FAQ

Q:

What does a machine learning engineer do?

A.
Machine learning engineers utilize data to program and test predictive machine learning algorithms, models and schemas. These machine learning systems are then used by companies to automate tasks and forecast business decisions.
Q:

How to become a machine learning engineer?

A.
Machine learning engineers are often expected to have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, mathematics or a similar field. Additionally, they may have a master’s degree in computer science, data science, machine learning or a related field. Candidates often obtain several years of experience in computer engineering, data science, software development or software engineering before entering the machine learning engineer role.
Q:

How much does a machine learning engineer make?

A.

The salary range for a machine learning engineer is $44K-$170K. The average salary for a Machine Learning Engineer in US is $152,812.

Career Info

Machine Learning Engineer jobs in US

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

New York City, NY
7 hours ago
$157,800 - $189,400
Annually
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney's two media business units, while helping to keep the company at vanguard of innovation - enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses. DE&E Platform Software Engineering team is

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA
1 day ago
$173,900 - $208,800
Annually
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney's two media business units, while helping to keep the company at vanguard of innovation - enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses. DE&E Platform Software Engineering team is

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

New York City, NY
1 day ago
$173,900 - $208,800
Annually
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney's two media business units, while helping to keep the company at vanguard of innovation - enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses. DE&E Platform Software Engineering team is

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering

Los Angeles, CA
5 days ago
$175,800 - $208,300
Annually
The vision of the Machine Learning (ML) Engineering team at Disney is to drive and enable ML usage across several domains in heterogeneous language environments and at all stages of a project's life cycle, including ad-hoc exploration, preparing training data, model development, and robust production deployment. The team is invested in continual innovation on the ML infrastructure itself to carefully orchestrate a continuous cycle of learning

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA
5 days ago
$129,150 - $207,900
Annually
Our team develops and maintains recommendation and personalization algorithms for Disney Streaming's suite of streaming video apps, notably Disney+ and Hulu. As a member of this team you will collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Data teams to apply machine learning methods to meet strategic product personalization goals, explore innovative, cutting edge techniques that can be applied to recommendations, and constantly seek ways to

Sr Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA
6 days ago
$145,400
Annually
Team Vision : The Machine Learning (ML) Engineering team at Disney drives and enables ML usage across several domains in heterogeneous language environments and at all stages of a project's life cycle, including ad-hoc exploration, preparing training data, model development, and robust production deployment. The team is invested in continual innovation of the ML infrastructure itself to carefully orchestrate a continuous cycle of learning

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Greater LA Area
1 week ago
$136,038 - $182,490
Annually
The Walt Disney Studios is composed of creative professionals who produce live-action and animated motion pictures, direct-to-video content, musical recordings and live stage plays that tell memorable, life-changing stories. Few media and entertainment companies can rival the brands we have the honor of bringing to the world.As part of the Studio Technology team you'll be joining a group of seasoned, dedicated technologists solving a range of

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Remote
1 week ago
The Opportunity: At DataGrail, we believe privacy is a human right. We believe every individual should have control over their identity and personal data. This is one of today’s most important challenges.The world’s best brands understand this–they’re built on trust. We help the most trusted brands like Databricks, HashiCorp and others known and admired organizations. We're looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help us continue to

Machine Learning Engineer II

New York City, NY
1 week ago
$118,800 - $124,400
Annually
Hulu is a premium streaming TV destination that seeks to captivate and connect viewers with the stories they love. We create amazing experiences that celebrate the best of entertainment and technology. We're looking for great people who are passionate about redefining TV through innovation, unconventional thinking and embracing fun. It's a mission that takes some serious smarts, intense curiosity and determination to be the best. Come be part of

Sr Manager, Machine Learning Engineering

San Francisco, CA
1 day ago
$197,866 - $228,800
Annually
Responsibilities : Lead and grow a team to build state of the art event-driven real-time ML ecosystem Provide technical direction for the ML application and pipeline management team Partner with Product and stakeholders to deliver innovative platform solutions for scalable ML development and deployment Mentor and facilitate individual careers by optimizing for their success and growth Maintain a culture of innovation, quality, transparency

Lead Software Engineer - Machine Learning (Ad Intelligence)

Santa Monica
1 week ago
$149,240 - $209,660
Annually
Ad Platforms organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Advertising Platform across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu and ESPN+. We build and maintain proprietary technology, ranging from ad serving and ad delivery, campaign management, reporting as well as all the integrations internal and external

VP, Data & Machine Learning

United States
1 day ago
Company Overview: Cohere Health is illuminating healthcare for patients, their doctors, and all those who are important in a patient’s healthcare experience, both in and out of the doctor's office. Founded in August 2019, we are committed to eliminating wasteful friction patients and doctors experienced in areas with nothing to do with health and treatment. To that end, we build software that is expressly designed to ensure the appropriate plan of

Skills that affect Machine Learning Engineer salaries in US

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Average Machine Learning Engineer Salary by Company Size

People with the job title Machine Learning Engineer make the most at companies with 51-200 employees, earning $153,309 on average.

Recent Machine Learning Engineer salaries in US

$110,000
Yearly Salary
A Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $110,000 with +$10,000 in additional cash compensation
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Salt Lake City, UT
$136,000
Yearly Salary
A Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $136,000 with +$5,000 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
1,000+ Employees
Raleigh-Durham, NC
$100,000
Yearly Salary
A Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $100,000
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
New York City, NY
$165,000
Yearly Salary
A Senior Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $165,000 with +$8,250 in additional cash compensation
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Remote
1-5 Reports
$120,000
Yearly Salary
A Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $120,000
1-3 Years of Experience
Male
1,000+ Employees
New York City, NY
$150,000
Yearly Salary
A Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $150,000 with +$20,000 in additional cash compensation
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
1,000+ Employees
San Francisco, CA
$110,000
Yearly Salary
A Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $110,000
3-5 Years of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
Boston, MA
1-5 Reports
$180,000
Yearly Salary
A Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $180,000 with +$36,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
51-200 Employees
Atlanta, GA
$233,000
Yearly Salary
A Senior Machine Learning Engineer reported a yearly salary of $233,000 with +$12,000 in additional cash compensation
5-7 Years of Experience
Prefer not to say
201-500 Employees
Remote
$115,000
Yearly Salary
A Associate Machine Learning Researcher reported a yearly salary of $115,000
< 1 Year of Experience
Male
201-500 Employees
Boston, MA