JAX salary: $238K median
The median advertised JAX salary is $238K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $193K to $288K: counted from 198 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $114 an hour or $19,833 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $338K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll JAX jobs
$238Kmedian advertised salary
$193K – $288Kmiddle half of roles
$251Kaverage advertised salary
198roles counted
JAX salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $280K, 21% more than senior roles ($232K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $232K | $212K–$255K | 43 |
| Lead and above | $280K | $232K–$302K | 46 |
| No level in the title | $217K | $185K–$300K | 106 |
JAX salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $275K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $265K | 126 |
| 🇺🇸California | $258K | 138 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $238K | 184 |
Skills that pay more for JAX roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | $288K | +$50K | 26 |
| LLM evaluation | $288K | +$50K | 23 |
| Distributed training | $280K | +$42K | 41 |
| Reinforcement learning | $270K | +$32K | 51 |
| Compilers | $266K | +$28K | 24 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $675K | 9 |
| Harvey | $340K | 4 |
| River AI Inc. | $310K | 4 |
| Zoox | $306K | 4 |
| Goodfire | $300K | 3 |
| Inferact | $300K | 4 |
| Preference Model | $275K | 4 |
| Waymo | $270K | 35 |
| xAI | $255K | 13 |
| Nuro | $242K | 5 |
| CoreWeave | $212K | 3 |
| Achira | $212K | 6 |
| The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | $199K | 4 |
| Sciforium | $195K | 7 |
| Sandboxaq | $193K | 7 |
| SambaNova | $164K | 3 |
| The Jackson Laboratory's | $114K | 20 |
Highest-paying open JAX roles
All JAX jobs- Research Engineer, DiscoveryAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$350K - $850KDockerGCPPyTorch
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)Anthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$500K - $850KRustPythonC++
- Member of Technical Staff, KernelsMagic.dev · 🇺🇸San Francisco$275K - $550KPythonHTMLJAX
- Training Performance EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$295K - $500KHybridRustPythonC++
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $485KRustPythonLLM
- Research Engineer, InfrastructureHarvey · 🇺🇸New York$230K - $450KHybridPythonPyTorchLLM evaluation
- Research Engineer, InfrastructureHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $450KHybridPythonPyTorchLLM evaluation
- Head of Engineering, PlatformGoodfire · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$300K - $450KLead and aboveMachine LearningPyTorchJAX
- Research Engineer, Training & InferenceHarmonic · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$200K - $450KPythonC++LLM
- Software Engineer, Evaluation InfrastructurexAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $440KRustPythonC++
- Applied ResearcherRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KMachine LearningPyTorchReinforcement learning
- Research Engineer / Research ScientistRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KMachine LearningPyTorchReinforcement learning
- Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)Baseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KHybridMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Helix AI Engineer, Training PerformanceFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$200K - $400KPythonC++PyTorch
- Machine Learning EngineerGoodfire · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA & New York, NY$200K - $400KPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff, Kernel EngineeringInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonC++CUDA
- Member of Technical Staff, TPU Kernel EngineeringInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Research ScientistDyna Robotics · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA$200K - $400KPythonPyTorchGenerative AI
- Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining DataMirendil · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $400KPythonPyTorchLLM evaluation
- Staff/Sr. Staff/Principal AI research scientistWriter · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$234K - $384KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
Questions about JAX pay
- What is the average JAX salary?
- $251K a year on average and $238K at the median, across 198 open JAX postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $193K to $288K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest JAX pay?
- Anthropic ($675K), Harvey ($340K), River AI Inc. ($310K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a jax a high-paying job?
- The median JAX posting advertises $238K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 37% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a jax?
- A tenth of the postings offer $338K a year or more; the highest open JAX role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the JAX salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $238K a year is about $114 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $19,833 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $93 to $139 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for JAX roles?
- Postings that ask for Rust (+$50K, 26 postings), LLM evaluation (+$50K, 23 postings), Distributed training (+$42K, 41 postings) advertise more than the $238K median of all JAX postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for JAX roles at companies is $238K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $193K to $288K. Counted from 198 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/jax/
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