Mid level AI engineers are making up to $220,000 a year and demand is only growing 🔥

Mid-level AI engineers with 3–5 years of hands-on ML experience are commanding base salaries between $155,000 and $220,000 per year. Demand is outpacing supply at this level, with roughly 9% year-over-year growth according to MRJ recruitment data. These engineers are valued because they can independently ship production models and integrate LLMs into real applications without senior oversight, at a lower cost than staff engineers.