Top paying companies

See the companies with the highest posted base pay for tech jobs. We rank each company by the median of the middle points of its posted pay ranges.

Top paying companies for ML / AI engineering jobs, ranked by median posted base pay, in US dollars per year
Rank	Company	Median range	Jobs with pay	Highest posted
1	Thinking Machines Lab	$350K–$475K	31	$500K
2	Magic	$275K–$550K	6	$550K
3	Anthropic	$320K–$485K	144	$850K
4	Aaru	$240K–$513K	6	$600K
5	OpenAI	$295K–$445K	103	$850K
6	Wayve	$312K–$389K	19	$600K
7	Mirendil	$300K–$400K	12	$400K
8	Harvey	$230K–$450K	17	$450K
9	Lambda	$266K–$395K	31	$465K
10	Mercor	$200K–$500K	17	$500K
11	Roblox	$295K–$345K	31	$574K
12	Runway	$270K–$370K	8	$450K
13	Perplexity	$220K–$405K	16	$485K
14	Adyen	$243K–$367K	6	$401K
15	Institute of Foundation Models	$150K–$450K	17	$450K
16	Decagon	$200K–$400K	15	$430K
17	Inferact	$200K–$400K	14	$400K
18	Turing	$250K–$350K	12	$400K
19	Figure	$200K–$400K	10	$400K
20	Goodfire	$200K–$400K	9	$600K
21	Periodic Labs	$250K–$350K	7	$350K
22	Simile	$200K–$400K	5	$400K
23	Suno	$228K–$364K	8	$395K
24	Generalist	$240K–$350K	11	$350K
25	Percepta	$190K–$400K	8	$425K
26	SF Tensor	$275K–$315K	6	$315K
27	San Francisco Tensor Company	$275K–$315K	6	$315K
28	Luma	$195K–$395K	5	$395K
29	Hark	$180K–$400K	21	$450K
30	Pinterest	$190K–$390K	23	$551K
31	Planet	$257K–$322K	5	$366K
32	FAR.AI	$225K–$350K	11	$450K
33	World Labs	$250K–$325K	7	$350K
34	Sierra	$180K–$390K	11	$410K
35	Scale AI	$252K–$315K	28	$496K
36	Character.AI	$213K–$375K	6	$400K
37	Snorkel AI	$200K–$355K	12	$403K
38	Reddit	$230K–$322K	32	$410K
39	Profluent	$212K–$339K	5	$339K
40	Epic Games	$223K–$327K	5	$341K
41	Etched	$150K–$400K	10	$400K
42	AfterQuery	$210K–$290K	7	$450K
43	Preference Model	$200K–$350K	5	$350K
44	Datadog	$244K–$305K	7	$400K
45	Plaid	$229K–$315K	11	$395K
46	Waymo	$238K–$302K	88	$431K
47	Crusoe	$245K–$285K	13	$335K
48	Handshake	$200K–$298K	10	$350K
49	Stand Insurance	$240K–$295K	5	$325K
50	Cartesia	$180K–$350K	10	$375K