Scale AI salaries
The median posted base pay for tech jobs at Scale AI is $251K a year, from 63 open jobs with posted pay. The middle half of the jobs is from $217K to $284K. The median posted range is $216K to $291K. The median at Scale AI is 29% above the median of all companies ($195K).
- Median posted base pay
- $251K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $217K to $284K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $193K to $319K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 63
Scale AI pay by level
Posted base pay at Scale AI, by the level in the job title. A level needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Level not stated28 jobs$222K$203K to $270K
- Senior14 jobs$243K$240K to $259K
- Staff16 jobs$284K$284K to $300K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level not stated | $191K | $203K | $222K | $270K | $286K | 28 |
| Senior | $224K | $240K | $243K | $259K | $326K | 14 |
| Staff | $270K | $284K | $284K | $300K | $316K | 16 |
Scale AI pay by job type
The median for each job type at Scale AI, compared with the median of all companies for the same job type. A job type needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay. One job can have more than one job type.
| Job type | Median at Scale AI | Middle half | Median of all companies | Difference | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML / AI engineering | $284K | $221K to $298K | $215K | +32% | 28 |
| Software engineering | $284K | $226K to $294K | $192K | +47% | 18 |
| Infra, platform & SRE | $243K | $242K to $257K | $194K | +25% | 12 |
| Inference & ML systems | $272K | $221K to $294K | $225K | +21% | 10 |
| Research | $292K | $193K to $320K | $215K | +35% | 10 |
| Product management | $251K | $204K to $272K | $200K | +25% | 8 |
| Security engineering | $267K | $261K to $290K | $195K | +37% | 3 |
| Design | $245K | $221K to $254K | $180K | +36% | 3 |
Open jobs at Scale AI with posted pay
These are the 20 jobs with the highest posted pay, from 63 open jobs with posted pay. Each range is the base pay that Scale AI posted.
- VP, Research$397K to $496K
- Senior Manager, Research Scientist$290K to $363K
- Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI$290K to $363K
- Tech Lead Manager- MLRE, ML Systems$290K to $363K
- Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector$252K to $362K
- Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer$288K to $360K
- Team Lead, ARC Software Engineering Team$287K to $359K
- Principal Architect$285K to $356K
- Security Engineer, Product Security$278K to $347K
- Forward Deployed Product Manager, Public Sector$210K to $345K
- Staff Product Manager, Agentic Platform$210K to $345K
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector$274K to $343K
- Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise$265K to $331K
- Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)$265K to $331K
- Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems$265K to $331K
- Research Scientist, AI Safety and Alignment$259K to $324K
- Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents$259K to $324K
- Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise$252K to $315K
- Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)$252K to $315K
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling$252K to $315K
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How we compute these numbers
We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.
We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A company needs 5 or more open jobs with posted pay to have a page. Jobs under the same company name count as one company.
The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.