What is the typical H-1B salary for a machine learning engineer?

Across 2,203 certified H-1B filings at 102 employers, the typical salary is $195,685 a year, and the middle half of employers' medians fall between $177,340 and $218,490.

Which employers pay H-1B machine learning engineers the most?

Among employers with at least 20 filings for the role, ByteDance ($337,000), Tesla ($250,000), Meta ($207,502) have the highest medians.

Which company sponsors the most machine learning engineers?

Meta filed the most, with 611 filings for "Research Scientist" at a median of $207,502.

Where do these numbers come from?

They are the wages employers committed to on their own certified H-1B filings for the fiscal year — not self-reported figures. Each employer's median is weighted by how many filings it made, so a company with thousands of filings counts for more than one with ten.

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Machine Learning Engineer H-1B salaries

What employers committed to paying sponsored machine learning engineers on their certified H-1B filings — per employer, with the job title they used.

$195,685
typical salary: $177k–$218k
middle half: 2,203
filings: 102
employers

Highest-paying sponsors

Employers with at least 20 filings for the role, by median salary.

Highest-paying H-1B sponsors for machine learning engineers
Employer	Job title on the filings	Median	Middle half	Filings
ByteDance	Research Scientist	$337,000	$264k–$395k	32
Tesla	Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer	$250,000	$213k–$416k	21
Meta	Research Scientist	$207,502	$186k–$223k	611
Google	Research Scientist	$205,000	$200k–$236k	195

What is the typical H-1B salary for a machine learning engineer?: Across 2,203 certified H-1B filings at 102 employers, the typical salary is $195,685 a year, and the middle half of employers' medians fall between $177,340 and $218,490.
Which employers pay H-1B machine learning engineers the most?: Among employers with at least 20 filings for the role, ByteDance ($337,000), Tesla ($250,000), Meta ($207,502) have the highest medians.
Which company sponsors the most machine learning engineers?: Meta filed the most, with 611 filings for "Research Scientist" at a median of $207,502.
Where do these numbers come from?: They are the wages employers committed to on their own certified H-1B filings for the fiscal year — not self-reported figures. Each employer's median is weighted by how many filings it made, so a company with thousands of filings counts for more than one with ten.

Most filings

The employers sponsoring the most machine learning engineers, and what they pay.

Employers with the most H-1B filings for machine learning engineers
Employer	Job title on the filings	Median	Middle half	Filings
Meta	Research Scientist	$207,502	$186k–$223k	611
Apple	Machine Learning	$190,700	$174k–$212k	252
Google	Research Scientist	$205,000	$200k–$236k	195
Adobe	Machine Learning Engineer	$187,741	$149k–$227k	151
LinkedIn	Senior Software Engineer Machine Learning	$190,942	$185k–$194k	101
Nvidia	Research Scientist	$168,000	$164k–$192k	73
Snap	Machine Learning Engineer	$177,362	$170k–$201k	48
JPMorgan Chase	Vice President Applied AI ML Lead	$187,500	$173k–$215k	43
TikTok	Machine Learning Engineer	$187,550	$130k–$260k	41
PayPal	Senior Machine Learning Engineer	$186,230	$172k–$200k	34
Pinterest	Machine Learning Engineer II	$174,304	$159k–$188k	34
ByteDance	Research Scientist	$337,000	$264k–$395k	32
Intel	Research Scientist	$162,370	$135k–$194k	30
Tesla	Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer	$250,000	$213k–$416k	21
Wayfair	Machine Learning Scientist II	$184,250	$182k–$189k	17
Resolve AI	Research Engineer	$240,000	—	16
Expedia	Machine Learning Scientist	$129,709	$107k–$163k	16
Reddit	Machine Learning Engineer	$260,000	$245k–$287k	16
Qualcomm	Senior Machine Learning Engineer	$140,800	$141k–$171k	15
Cisco Systems	Machine Learning Engineer	$163,468	$158k–$183k	14
IBM	Research Scientist	$203,910	$197k–$228k	14
Roblox	Senior Machine Learning Engineer	$235,330	$226k–$294k	14
Netflix	Machine Learning Engineer	$224,994	$185k–$265k	12
Zoom Communications	Machine Learning Engineer	$180,710	$152k–$186k	12
Optum Services	Senior AI ML Engineer	$152,644	$130k–$161k	11
Red Hat	Machine Learning Engineer	$178,131	$164k–$184k	11
DoorDash	Machine Learning Engineer	$172,152	$146k–$190k	10
Waymo	Machine Learning Engineer	$240,000	$205k–$250k	10
Bloomberg L.P.	Machine Learning Engineer	$160,805	$161k–$173k	10
Uber Technologies	Senior Machine Learning Engineer	$235,500	$225k–$243k	9
Luma AI	Research Engineer	$170,000	$170k–$192k	9
Airbnb	Machine Learning Engineer	$204,000	$174k–$227k	8
NTT DATA	Senior AI Engineer	$350,000	—	8
Atlassian US	Senior Machine Learning Engineer	$220,000	$203k–$230k	8
Citadel	Quantitative Research Engineer I	$68,869	—	8
Workday	Principal Machine Learning Engineer	$228,000	$205k–$230k	7
State Street Bank and Trust	Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning	$137,688	$110k–$143k	7
Boston Consulting Group	Senior AI Engineer	$190,000	$190k–$190k	7
Synopsys	AI Engineer	$184,372	$161k–$197k	7
Quantiphi	Senior Machine Learning Engineer	$120,000	$115k–$130k	7