AI jobs: who is hiring and what it pays
Companies building AI and the machine learning, research, product and applied roles inside them. 8,364 open jobs at 2,195 employers, with a median stated pay of $228k. Every job on this page is in the United States, taken from the employer’s own career site or job system and checked to still be open.
Question 1
Where are you right now?
Why we ask: a laid-off week and a thinking-about-a-move week look nothing alike. No résumé, no account.
8,364
open AI jobs
2,195
employers hiring
$228k
median stated pay (3,733 jobs)
November 2026
first month tracked
All AI lists
Employers with the most open AI jobs
OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic lead the AI employers on our board. The ten with the most openings post 32% of the 8,364 open AI jobs.
| # | Employer | Open jobs |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAICA · Median pay $308k | 521 open |
| 2 | AmazonWA · Median pay $197k | 499 open |
| 3 | AnthropicCA · Median pay $360k | 428 open |
| 4 | DatabricksCA · Median pay $216k | 428 open |
| 5 | HarveyCA · Median pay $230k | 234 open |
| 6 | Applied IntuitionCA · Median pay $175k | 190 open |
| 7 | Scale AICA · Median pay $231k | 117 open |
| 8 | xAICA | 117 open |
| 9 | AppleCA · Median pay $214k | 87 open |
| 10 | SierraCA · Median pay $285k | 79 open |
Highest-paying AI roles
Among AI jobs that state yearly pay, Database Architects, Fuel Cell Engineers and Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel pay the most at the median, against $228k for the segment as a whole.
| # | Role | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Database Architects18 open · With pay 8 | $363k |
| 2 | Fuel Cell Engineers45 open · With pay 33 | $340k |
| 3 | Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel106 open · With pay 73 | $323k |
| 4 | Computer Network Architects17 open · With pay 10 | $318k |
| 5 | Computer and Information Systems Managers28 open · With pay 18 | $311k |
| 6 | Architectural and Engineering Managers102 open · With pay 85 | $311k |
| 7 | Sales Engineers21 open · With pay 14 | $285k |
| 8 | Information Security Engineers62 open · With pay 44 | $280k |
Skills employers ask for
python, machine learning and aws are the skills most often named in AI job postings, read from each posting's own text.
Where the AI jobs are
CA, NY and WA have the most open AI jobs.
| # | State | Open jobs |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CaliforniaMedian pay $250k | 3,628 open |
| 2 | New YorkMedian pay $230k | 1,115 open |
| 3 | WashingtonMedian pay $209k | 558 open |
| 4 | TexasMedian pay $194k | 452 open |
| 5 | VirginiaMedian pay $176k | 350 open |
| 6 | MassachusettsMedian pay $199k | 308 open |
| 7 | IllinoisMedian pay $180k | 225 open |
| 8 | District of ColumbiaMedian pay $207k | 173 open |
New AI jobs this week
25 AI jobs were posted in the last seven days.
- Field Marketing Manager
Harvey · San Francisco, CA
$90k–$150k · Nov 2
- Staff AI Engineer, Developer Relations Engineering
Crusoe · Sunnyvale, CA
Nov 2
- Enterprise Customer Success Manager
Harvey · Chicago, IL
$160k–$185k · Nov 2
- Research Scientist - E2
Sikorsky Aircraft · Fort Worth, TX
Nov 2
- Office Manager
Groq · San Francisco, CA
Nov 2
- Content & Programming Senior Manager, Global Events
Harvey · San Francisco, CA
$115k–$172k · Nov 2
$115k–$172k · Nov 2
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Pre-training
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
$500k–$850k · Nov 2
Laid off in AI? Start here
- A plan for the weeks after a layoff
- Unemployment benefits and how to file, by state
- Severance calculator
- Layoff tracker: who is cutting and where
Then look at the employers above that are hiring now.
More industries
- US manufacturing34,328
- Defense and aerospace30,328
- Financial services28,982
- Healthcare26,927
- Education14,346
- Nonprofits13,697
- Biotech and pharma12,574
- Construction7,544
- Transportation and logistics5,669
- Space5,418
- Automotive and EV4,186
- Semiconductors3,683
- Retail3,289
- Robotics and automation3,148
- Consumer packaged goods2,663
- Data centers2,554
- Utilities and power2,405
- Clean energy and nuclear2,303
- Telecom1,689
- Real estate1,655
- Tourism and hospitality1,437
- Oil and gas1,102
- Steel, aluminum and metals1,022
- Restaurants953
- TV and streaming941
- Mining and natural resources884
- Airlines and aviation811
- Music663
- Shipbuilding and maritime474
- Casino and gaming441
- Sports235
- Movies and film63
How these lists are made
- Every job on this page is in the United States, taken from the employer’s own career site or job system and checked to still be open.
- A job is counted in AI when its employer is on our list of AI employers, or its title names AI work. A job can sit in more than one segment.
- Pay figures use only jobs that state a yearly salary range in dollars; the figure is the middle of the range, and the median is across jobs. A pay list is shown only when enough jobs state pay.
- The same employer under different spellings is counted once. A city where one employer posts half the openings is not ranked.
- Lists are rebuilt weekly from our job board and kept by month. Professional and management roles; hourly roles are not on our board.
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