Who Is Hiring AI Cloud Engineers — And What They Pay

AI Cloud Engineers earn a median of $147,800 per year, with most postings between $121,452 and $190,400. From 296 job postings that disclosed pay, across 96 companies, August 2026.

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

Who is hiring AI Cloud Engineers

15 companies with open postings in this sample.

Apple
$241,750 17
Vantage Data Centers
$240,000 4
EY
$223,500 3
Google
$199,500 23
Microsoft
$190,400 12
JPMorganChase
$185,875 6
Cisco
$181,200 4
Cyera
$180,000 12
Synopsys
$173,000 3
Oddball
$172,500 3

Also hiring: CVS Health, Google, Apple, General Dynamics Information Technology, Cyera, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, JPMorganChase, Base-2 Solutions, LLC, Wells Fargo, OnBoard, Nebius.

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What AI Cloud Engineers earn

10th $94K 25th $121K median $148K 75th $190K 90th $235K
$87K $258K

Each bar is a pay band; height is how many employers post in it.

What AI Cloud Engineer postings actually ask for

Ranked by how many of the 399 posting descriptions mention them.

Machine Learning 32%
Data Engineering 26%
Data Science 23%
Data Pipelines 22%
Data Governance 22%
Artificial Intelligence 15%
CI/CD Pipelines 12%
Cloud Infrastructure 12%
Code reviews 10%
Automated Testing 10%
Generative AI 10%
Infrastructure as Code 9%
Technical Design 8%
Distributed Systems 8%
Cloud Security 8%
Technology Solutions 8%
Data Modeling 8%
Cloud Environments 8%

AI Cloud Engineer vs adjacent roles

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

  • cloud engineer
  • cloud architect
  • ai engineer
  • cloud security engineer
  • network engineer
  • software engineer

Remote vs onsite pay

Median of remote-eligible postings against the rest.

Remote-eligible
$127,250
Onsite
$168,000

134 remote-eligible postings against 166 onsite. Onsite pays 24.3% more in this sample.

Pay by experience level

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

Mid
$102,500 12
Senior
$157,302 54
Lead / Manager
$185,875 56
Principal / Staff
$201,500 16

Pay by location

Metros with at least three salaried postings.

Remote, US
$139,650 21
New York, NY
$182,125 14
Austin, TX
$170,500 14
US
$206,950 8
Sunnyvale, CA
$225,325 8
Washington, DC
$96,250 8
Reston, VA
$164,650 8
Redmond, WA
$160,650 7
Cupertino, CA
$243,600 7
Charlotte, NC
$143,000 6
Herndon, VA
$140,512 6
Seattle, WA
$190,525 6

Where this data comes from

  • 399 live postings analysed
  • 296 (74%) published a salary range
  • 184 (46%) were remote-eligible
  • 140 distinct employers
  • Requirements read from 399 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