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Infrastructure & SRE Salary at AI Startups

Base pay from 779 open roles at 166 AI companies that list a salary range. Annual USD.

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25th percentile

$180K

Median

$216K

75th percentile

$264K

Percentiles use the midpoint of each posted range. Lowest posted $76K, highest $850K.

Pay by role

RoleCompanySalary range
Pre-training Data Infrastructure EngineerSan Francisco, CAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Engineering Manager, Inference InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$405K–$625K
Software Engineer, Research InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$405K–$625K
Staff Software Engineer, Environments InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$405K–$605K
TPM Manager, Infrastructure San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$365K–$565K
Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityUS - RemoteOpenAI$401K–$510K
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityUS - RemoteOpenAI$401K–$510K
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure EngineeringSan FranciscoOpenAI$347K–$510K
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards ResearchSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$350K–$500K
AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGISan FranciscoOpenAI$266K–$500K
Infrastructure Software Engineer San FranciscoMercor$160K–$500K
Data Platform EngineerSan FranciscoMercor$160K–$500K
Software Engineer, Fleet InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$490K
Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPCSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$490K
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure San FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$490K
Engineering Manager, Data InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$405K–$485K
Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$320K–$485K
Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$320K–$485K
Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML InfraSan Francisco, CAAnthropic$320K–$485K
Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$320K–$485K
Staff+ Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureRemote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NYAnthropic$405K–$485K
Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$320K–$485K
Software Engineer, DevOpsSan FranciscoOpenAI$318K–$485K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, NumericsSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, InferenceSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Training SystemsSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, KernelsSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure StorageSan Francisco Office (Fremont St)Lambda$314K–$465K
Software Engineer, Manufacturing InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$310K–$460K
Principal Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA,USPinterest$285K–$450K
Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$266K–$445K
Security Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityUS - RemoteOpenAI$266K–$445K
Software Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityUS - RemoteOpenAI$266K–$445K
Systems Generalist, GPT InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$445K
Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure San FranciscoOpenAI$347K–$445K
Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics PlatformSan FranciscoOpenAI$266K–$445K
Tech Lead, Deployment & Operations — Custom InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$342K–$445K
Software Engineer, Monetization ML InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$347K–$445K
Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer DevicesSan FranciscoOpenAI$347K–$445K
Technical Program Manager, Applied InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$257K–$445K
Technical Program Manager, Storage & Data InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$257K–$445K
Engineering Manager, Client Platform EngineeringSan FranciscoOpenAI$401K–$445K
Engineering Manager, ChatGPT Search InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$401K–$445K
Software Engineer, Search InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$266K–$445K
Technical Program Manager, Data Center InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$365K–$435K
Sr. Manager, Engineering –  Delivery Serving InfrastructurePalo Alto, CA,US; San Francisco, CA, USPinterest$242K–$430K
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Product ML InfrastructurePalo Alto, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, USPinterest$245K–$429K
Associate General Counsel, Commercial – InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$381K–$423K
Research Engineer - AI/RL InfrastructureSunnyvaleApplied Intuition$126K–$423K
AI Infrastructure Operations, Demand PlanningSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$320K–$405K
Data Center Engineer, Reliability & Infrastructure Management – Compute SupplySan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$320K–$405K
DevOps / AgentOps Engineer, GTM SystemsSan Francisco, CAAnthropic$320K–$405K
Infrastructure Capacity Planner, Demand PlanningSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$320K–$405K
Software Engineer, Compute InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$405K
Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)San FranciscoPerplexity$220K–$405K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)San FranciscoPerplexity$220K–$405K
Member of Technical Staff (General Software Engineer, Infrastructure)San FranciscoPerplexity$220K–$405K
Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure San Jose, CAFigure AI$150K–$400K
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureSan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Senior Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureSan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Security Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureSan Francisco or NYCMercor$130K–$400K
Software Engineer, InfrastructureSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$300K–$400K
Infrastructure Engineer, SecuritySan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$300K–$400K
Engineering Manager, InfrastructureSan Francisco, CaliforniaSentry$220K–$400K
AI Evaluation Infrastructure EngineerBay Area, CA, United States of AmericaBlock$264K–$395K
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure StorageSan Francisco Office (Fremont St)Lambda$266K–$395K
Senior Director, Data Platform EngineeringSan Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$300K–$390K
Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)San Francisco, CASierra$230K–$390K
Deployed Infrastructure Engineer San Francisco, CASierra$230K–$390K
Software Engineer, Payments InfrastructureSan Francisco, CASierra$230K–$390K
Software Engineer, InfrastructureSan Francisco, CASierra$230K–$390K
Software Engineer, Agent InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Software Engineer, Caching InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Data Scientist, InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Core Experimentation SeattleOpenAI$347K–$385K
Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&ASan FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$385K
GPT Infrastructure LeadSan FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$385K
Software Engineer, GPT InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$385K
Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability LeadUS - RemoteOpenAI$223K–$385K
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: DedicatedRemote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United StatesGitLab$223K–$380K
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - ResearchSan FranciscoOpenAI$250K–$380K
Senior Software Engineer, Platform InfrastructureSan Jose, CaliforniaRoku$280K–$380K
Principal Software Engineer - Performance Engineering (Cloud Infrastructure)US-CA-Menlo ParkSnowflake$264K–$380K
Staff Software Engineer, Platform InfrastructureNew York CityAstronomer$275K–$377K
Data Platform EngineerSan Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United StatesFigma$153K–$376K
Software Engineer - Data InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United StatesFigma$153K–$376K
Staff Site Reliability Engineer New York CityLegora$273K–$369K
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead Mountain View, CA, USAWaymo$298K–$368K
Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Lead ManagerMountain View, CA, USA Waymo$298K–$368K
Senior Counsel, Commercial (Infrastructure)San FranciscoOpenAI$330K–$366K
Principal Engineer, Core InfrastructureBoston, MAKlaviyo$244K–$366K
Technical Program Manager, InfrastructureSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$290K–$365K
Technical Program Manager, Safeguards (Infrastructure & Evals)San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$290K–$365K
Manufacturing Quality Engineer – Datacenter InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$207K–$365K
Manager II, Engineering, Ads Serving InfrastructurePalo Alto, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, USPinterest$208K–$365K
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, DevOps/SRESan Jose, CaliforniaRoku$149K–$361K
Lead Machine Learning Engineer - ML Infrastructure Remote - USSamsara$200K–$358K
Senior Director of Data Platform EngineeringUnited States | RemoteUpstart$261K–$357K
Tech Lead, Self Driving Eval InfrastructureMountain View, CA, USAWaymo$281K–$356K
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Managed KubernetesSan Francisco Office (Fremont St)Lambda$240K–$356K
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