Inference Engineer Salary
Makes trained models serve fast, cheap, and reliably in production — serving stacks, GPU kernels, quantization, latency.
$175K
25th percentile
$221K
Median
$249K
75th percentile
Based on 20 job postings · Updated
| Seniority | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $209K | $230K | $238K | 5 |
| Staff+ | $189K | $232K | $264K | 7 |
| Country | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $198K | $231K | $256K | 18 |
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How these figures are calculated
- Every figure comes from a salary range an employer published on its own careers page. Ranges are annualized, converted to USD, and reduced to their midpoint.
- One posting per employer counts toward each cut within a 90-day window, so a company that re-posts the same role weekly cannot move the median.
- Figures more than 3 standard deviations from their group median are excluded as data-entry outliers.
- A cut is only published once it has at least 5 postings behind it. Roles, regions and seniority levels below that show nothing rather than a number one employer sets.
Estimated from public job posting data, not verified employer-reported compensation. Figures are annualized and converted to USD from the salary ranges employers published.