AI Cloud Engineer Skills and Job Description (October 2026)

Python is asked for by 49% of AI Cloud Engineer employers, the most common requirement across 300 live postings read in October 2026. Then AWS, Azure, Distributed Systems.

Median posted pay is $183,200, most postings between $152,500 and $223,690 — from 265 postings that disclosed it, across 42 companies.

Posted pay is up 8.6% since 2026-09-27 ($168,712 → $183,200).

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These are ranges employers published in their own job postings — not salaries people typed into a form years ago.

What AI Cloud Engineer postings actually ask for

Ranked by how many of the 300 posting descriptions mention them.

Python 49%
AWS 43%
Azure 33%
Distributed Systems 29%
Java 28%
SQL 28%
CI/CD 28%
Software Engineering 28%
Kubernetes 26%
Terraform 26%
Data Science 24%
GCP 20%
LLM 20%
Machine Learning 20%
Cloud Platforms 20%
Agile 18%
PyTorch 18%
Go 16%
TensorFlow 16%
Microservices 16%
Information Systems 14%
Docker 14%
Ansible 14%
Version Control 14%
Data Engineering 14%

Would your background clear the bar?

These are the requirements AI Cloud Engineer postings list. Paste one of those postings and your résumé — FitToHire checks you against every requirement and shows the evidence behind each verdict.

15 companies in this sample have AI Cloud Engineer postings open right now.

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Who is hiring AI Cloud Engineers

15 companies with open postings in this sample.

Apple
$254,750 3
NVIDIA
$244,687 4
Deloitte
$239,500 165
Microsoft
$190,400 18
IonQ
$190,000 4
Amazon Web Services
$183,650 6
Uber
$180,500 4
Amazon.com
$178,750 14
General Dynamics Information Technology
$141,500 8

Also hiring: Oracle, REI Systems, Molex, Zayo Group, Rivet, Micron Technology.

What AI Cloud Engineers earn

10th $131K 25th $152K median $183K 75th $224K 90th $255K
$100K $259K

Each bar is a pay band. Height is how many of the 42 employers who published a salary fall in it, counted once each.

Pay bands in numbers
Employer median pay by band
Pay band Employers
$100,000–$115,875 4
$115,875–$131,750 1
$131,750–$147,625 4
$147,625–$163,500 6
$163,500–$179,375 3
$179,375–$195,250 7
$195,250–$211,125 3
$211,125–$227,000 6
$227,000–$242,875 2
$242,875–$258,750 6
Total 42

AI Cloud Engineer vs adjacent roles

Roles people compare this one against, taken from what they search.

Remote vs onsite pay

Median of remote-eligible postings against the rest.

Remote-eligible
$180,500
Onsite
$186,500

26 remote-eligible postings against 240 onsite. Onsite pays 3.2% more in this sample.

Pay by experience level

Level is taken from the posting title, so only postings that state one are counted.

Mid
$135,300 42
Senior
$182,150 122
Lead / Manager
$190,150 10
Principal / Staff
$223,500 12

Pay by location

Metros with at least three salaried postings.

New York, NY
$201,600 15
Seattle, WA
$182,075 12
Redmond, WA
$181,550 11
Santa Clara, CA
$191,650 10
Dallas, TX
$135,300 7
San Francisco, CA
$203,000 6
Arlington, VA
$190,650 6
US
$189,875 6
Pittsburgh, PA
$164,500 5
Philadelphia, PA
$164,500 5
Houston, TX
$164,500 5
San Jose, CA
$228,500 5

Where this data comes from

  • 300 live postings analysed
  • 265 (88%) published a salary range
  • 30 (10%) were remote-eligible
  • 51 distinct employers
  • Requirements read from 300 full posting descriptions
  • Each employer gets one vote in the median, so a company running a large hiring campaign cannot move it
  • Ranges are converted to annual figures; hourly and contract postings are normalised before comparison

How the requirements were read

Requirements are not keyword counts. Each posting is read by our extraction engine, which works out what the employer is actually asking for and separates a requirement from a section heading or a line of boilerplate. Two postings asking for the same thing in different words are counted once, because our skills graph knows which phrasings mean the same thing and which imply others.

The share beside each requirement is the percentage of distinct EMPLOYERS in that sample who asked for it, counted one vote per company so a firm posting the same role many times cannot inflate its own requirements. Measured, not estimated, and read from the posting text rather than counted as keywords.

Because every reading is dated, the movement figures above are real month-over-month change. Sites built on self-reported salaries cannot produce that number: their data has no posting date.