How Much Do Machine Learning Engineer Jobs Pay in New York? (November 2026)

How pay has moved

Median base salary by month, from our monthly salary snapshots.

Highest-paying employers

1. #1

   A

   Anthropic

   5 salaried listings in New York

   $425,000

   median
   Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems$500k – $850k·San Francisco, CAResearch Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)$500k – $850k·Remote Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens$350k – $500k·New York City, NYML/Research Engineer, Safeguards$350k – $500k·San Francisco, CAStaff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse (Machine Learning)$320k – $485k·San Francisco, CA
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2. #2

   A

   Attentive

   2 salaried listings in New York

   $336,000

   median
   Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning$350k – $430k·New York, NYSenior Machine Learning Engineer$244k – $320k·New York, NY
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3. #3

   E

   Etsy

   5 salaried listings in New York

   $282,000

   median
   Director of Engineering, Machine Learning Recommendations$296k – $400k·Brooklyn, New YorkSenior Staff Machine Learning Engineer Search, Recommendations, and Ads$258k – $350k·Brooklyn, New YorkSenior Staff Machine Learning Engineer$245k – $319k·Brooklyn, New YorkStaff Machine Learning Engineer I, Search Retrieval$218k – $294k·Brooklyn, New YorkMachine Learning Engineer, Search, Ads & Recommendations$182k – $246k·Brooklyn, New York
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4. #4

   S

   Spotify

   4 salaried listings in New York

   $276,244

   median
   Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Home Surfaces$227k – $325k·New York, NYStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Home Surfaces$227k – $325k·New York, NYStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization$227k – $325k·New York, NYSenior Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization$184k – $263k·New York, NY
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5. #5

   W

   Waymo

   4 salaried listings in New York

   $275,250

   median
   Staff ML Engineer, Generative Model Performance & Efficiency$251k – $310k·Mountain View, California, United StatesStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation $251k – $310k·Mountain View, CA, USAStaff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM$238k – $302k·Mountain View, CA, USASenior Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation$204k – $259k·Mountain View, CA, USA
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Employers ranked by median advertised base among those with at least two salaried listings in New York; each one’s best-paying open roles are listed beneath it.