Ray salary: $254K median
The median advertised Ray salary is $254K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $220K to $300K: counted from 41 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $122 an hour or $21,208 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $321K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Ray jobs
$254Kmedian advertised salary
$220K – $300Kmiddle half of roles
$254Kaverage advertised salary
41roles counted
Ray salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸United States | $247K | 40 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $240K | 31 |
| 🇺🇸California | $240K | 34 |
Skills that pay more for Ray roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAX | $282K | +$27K | 6 |
| TensorFlow | $276K | +$22K | 5 |
| Distributed training | $276K | +$21K | 12 |
| PyTorch | $275K | +$20K | 13 |
| MLOps | $268K | +$14K | 6 |
Top-paying companies
Highest-paying open Ray roles
All Ray jobs- Helix AI Engineer, PerceptionFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$200K - $400KAICUDAComputer Vision
- Member of Technical Staff, Developer RelationsInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed EngineerInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KGoPythonTypeScript
- AWS & Neo Cloud Alliances Senior ManagerAnyscale · Remote$327K - $385KRemoteSeniorGCPAzureMachine Learning
- Head of Customer EngineeringAnyscale · 🇺🇸San Francisco$315K - $375KLead and aboveGCPAzureMachine Learning
- Sr. Model Engineer, VoicexAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$220K - $357KSeniorRustPythonC++
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Infrastructure Engineer, RL Post-trainingPreference Model · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $350KGCPLLMPyTorch
- Engineering Manager, ML Performance OptimizationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$276K - $343KPyTorchCUDADistributed training
- Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Consumer Revenue)Discord · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$272K - $340KLead and abovePythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Staff Software Engineer, MLApptronik · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$285K - $340KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI SecurityReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $322KRemoteLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Staff Machine Learning Systems EngineerReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $322KRemoteLead and abovePythonTerraformGCP
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, HPCZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$201K - $315KLead and abovePythonMachine LearningKubernetes
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend InfrastructureSesame · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $280KLead and aboveTerraformPyTorchKubernetes
- Staff Software Engineer, InferenceCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$188K - $275KLead and aboveGoPythonC++
- Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning PlatformChime · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, USA$187K - $259KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Nova IntelligenceIterable · 🇺🇸REMOTE - US$150K - $250KRemoteSeniorPythonScalaTerraform
- Model Engineer, VoicexAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$160K - $250KRustPythonC++
- Senior Software Engineer II, InferenceCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$182K - $242KSeniorGoPythonC++
- Sr. Software Engineer, Computer VisionSpaceX · 🇺🇸Hawthorne, CA$160K - $225KSeniorPythonC++PostgreSQL
Questions about Ray pay
- What is the average Ray salary?
- $254K a year on average and $254K at the median, across 41 open Ray 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 $220K to $300K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Ray pay?
- Reddit ($276K), Anyscale ($240K), CoreWeave ($195K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a ray a high-paying job?
- The median Ray posting advertises $254K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 46% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a ray?
- A tenth of the postings offer $321K a year or more; the highest open Ray role advertises up to $400K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Ray salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $254K a year is about $122 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $21,208 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $106 to $144 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Ray roles?
- Postings that ask for JAX (+$27K, 6 postings), TensorFlow (+$22K, 5 postings), Distributed training (+$21K, 12 postings) advertise more than the $254K median of all Ray 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 Ray roles at companies is $254K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $220K to $300K. Counted from 41 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/ray/
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