MLOps Engineer salary 2026
Remote MLOps Engineer roles advertise a median of $260K a year, based on 39 open postings that publish pay.
$260KMedian
$245K–$311KMiddle 50%
$185K–$425KFull range
39Postings
By candidate region
Median of published ranges, grouped by where the posting accepts applicants from.
Worldwide
$263K
35 roles
North America
$225K
4 roles
Highest-paying open roles
Live postings, ranked by the midpoint of their published range.
1
Software Engineer, Inference - Multi Modal · OpenAI
$295K - $555K
2
Software Engineer, CI/CD & ML Infrastructure · OpenAI
$318K - $485K
3
Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure · OpenAI
$347K - $445K
4
Software Engineer, Model Inference · OpenAI
$266K - $500K
5
Software Engineer, Inference - Performance Optimization · OpenAI
$266K - $500K
6
AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI · OpenAI
$266K - $500K
7
Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) · Perplexity
$220K - $485K
8
Forward Deployed Engineer, Inference · Cohere
$240K - $415K
9
Inference Engineering and Product Lead · Modal
$300K - $350K
10
Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) · Perplexity
$220K - $405K
How this is calculated: we take every currently open MLOps Engineer posting on the board whose title matches the role and that publishes a salary range in US dollars, use the midpoint of each range, and report the median and percentiles. Postings without pay, or with pay in another currency, are excluded — nothing is estimated. Refreshed with every daily job update.
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