Posted salary ranges · updated 2026-09-28

Scale AI salaries 2026: posted ranges by role and level

122 open roles at Scale AI publish a base-salary range. The median posted range is $200k to $258k; the highest posted maximum is $496k. Ranges come from Scale AI's own postings on its careers site, refreshed every 6 hours. All Scale AI roles.

By function

Function	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Engineering	38	$217k	$293k	$257k	$362k
Product & Design	14	$208k	$291k	$254k	$342k
Infrastructure	11	$214k	$270k	$243k	$315k
Research	12	$216k	$270k	$243k	$378k
Data	2	$182k	$228k	$205k	$230k
Go-to-market	34	$166k	$230k	$204k	$265k
Operations	10	$150k	$190k	$168k	$241k

By level

Level	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Staff+	22	$223k	$296k	$266k	$362k
Senior	23	$206k	$270k	$238k	$311k
Lead / Manager	38	$196k	$249k	$220k	$363k
Unspecified	37	$181k	$237k	$210k	$297k
New grad	2	$124k	$162k	$143k	$162k

By role

The most posted roles first.

Role	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Software Engineer	18	$200k	$265k	$232k	$315k
Engagement Manager	7	$166k	$249k	$208k	$291k
Technical Program Manager	7	$151k	$208k	$187k	$249k
Product Manager	4	$225k	$300k	$270k	$345k
Research Scientist	4	$216k	$270k	$243k	$270k

Highest posted ranges at Scale AI

One row per role.

Role	Level	Range	Location
VP, Research	Lead / Manager	$397k to $496k	San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
Director of Engineering, Physical AI	Lead / Manager	$302k to $378k	San Francisco, CA
Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents	Staff+	$302k to $378k	San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York

Method: base-salary ranges parsed from the compensation field or description of each posting; placeholder ranges (top at least 3x the bottom) excluded; medians use the range midpoint; level inferred from the title. All AI companies · Scale AI jobs.