Remote salaries by role, 2026.
What employers actually advertise for remote AI and tech roles — taken from the pay ranges published on live postings, not surveys or estimates.
AI & ML
LLM Engineer
$198K
3 roles with pay
small sample
Machine Learning Engineer
$331K
26 roles with pay
$281K–$389K
AI Engineer
$245K
26 roles with pay
$229K–$265K
Data Scientist
$270K
39 roles with pay
$220K–$378K
AI Research Scientist
$338K
47 roles with pay
$295K–$440K
MLOps Engineer
$260K
39 roles with pay
$245K–$311K
Computer Vision Engineer
$371K
3 roles with pay
small sample
NLP Engineer
$300K
3 roles with pay
small sample
Software & tech
Software Engineer
$300K
451 roles with pay
$248K–$339K
Backend Engineer
$245K
37 roles with pay
$226K–$313K
Frontend Engineer
$242K
18 roles with pay
$233K–$263K
Full-Stack Engineer
$317K
46 roles with pay
$233K–$356K
Data Engineer
$229K
22 roles with pay
$196K–$323K
DevOps Engineer
$272K
20 roles with pay
$238K–$311K
Site Reliability Engineer
$279K
15 roles with pay
$239K–$302K
Security Engineer
$286K
96 roles with pay
$228K–$331K
Product Manager
$255K
93 roles with pay
$226K–$285K
Product Designer
$240K
41 roles with pay
$215K–$278K
Mobile Engineer
$283K
25 roles with pay
$260K–$308K
Figures are medians of the midpoint of each USD salary range employers publish on currently open postings on this board. Postings without a published range, or in another currency, are left out. The range column shows the 25th–75th percentile. Refreshed with every daily job update.