What 219 AI evals job postings that publish a salary pay

An analysis of 219 AI evals job postings that publish a salary across 50 companies shows a median pay band of $200k–$320k, with post-training and RL roles paying $105k more than eval tooling at the bottom. Only 34% of 638 live postings state a band, and the full range spans from $55k to $850k, according to the job board that recomputes the data every morning.

Recomputed every morning · 2026-08-25 What AI evals engineers actually get paid Nobody publishes this. So here it is, straight from 219 live job postings that state a salary, across 50 companies. $200k – $320k The median band. A quarter of roles sit below $208k at the midpoint, a quarter above $320k. The full range runs from $55k to $850k. Get this every week, before the roles are gone One email on Thursdays. New roles, with pay where it is published. Free. One email on Thursdays. Unsubscribe in one click. Post-training & RL pays the most A $105k gap separates it from eval tooling at the bottom. Worth knowing which side of that line a role sits on before you take the interview, because the titles rarely tell you. median of midpoints n=65 n=21 n=82 n=21 n=22 n=8 By company Companies with at least three published bands. The bar spans their lowest advertised floor to their highest advertised ceiling, so a wide bar means they hire across a wide seniority range, not that any one role pays that spread. median of midpoints n=3 n=50 n=9 n=3 n=8 n=8 n=11 n=14 n=6 n=3 n=4 n=4 n=6 n=3 n=3 n=5 n=5 n=8 n=4 n=3 n=3 n=6 n=5 n=3 n=7 The highest bands on the board | Role | Company | Band | |---|---|---| | Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL /jobs/99d9551633cf/ Member of Technical Staff, Deeptune Environments /jobs/48adfe8550c3/ Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI Post Training /jobs/14cf2f93b982/ Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory /jobs/7de1a88a967c/ Research Engineer / Research Scientist -Personal AGI, Proactivity /jobs/70b9638dac6f/ Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization /jobs/3f549876debc/ Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars /jobs/b5f350778ddd/ The bands are so wide they barely mean anything These are single job postings, not seniority ladders. A range this wide tells a candidate almost nothing about what the offer will be, which is worth knowing before you spend a week interviewing. | Role | Company | Band | Spread | |---|---|---|---| | Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL /jobs/99d9551633cf/ Member of Technical Staff, Deeptune Environments /jobs/48adfe8550c3/ Data Scientist /jobs/4b47a3426fc1/ Machine Learning Engineer, Frontier Data Products /jobs/e30c8d7e8510/ Only 34% of these jobs say what they pay 219 of 638 live postings state a band. The rest make you ask. Everything above is drawn only from the ones that tell you, so if publishers skew toward the better-paying end — and they usually do — treat these as an optimistic read rather than a market average. Method. Every figure recomputed from the 638 roles live on this board today, collected from company career pages. Annual USD base only: hourly contract rates and non-USD bands are excluded rather than converted, because mixing them would quietly distort every number here. Equity and bonus are excluded, which matters most at the frontier labs where they are the larger half of the offer. Track medians use the median of each posting's midpoint. Company bars span the lowest floor to the highest ceiling that company advertises. Categories need three or more published bands to appear at all. This page rebuilds every morning, so these numbers move. New roles and updated pay data, every Thursday One email on Thursdays. New roles, with pay where it is published. Free. One email on Thursdays. Unsubscribe in one click.