AI post-training and evals jobs pay up to $850K, with median offers at $210K–$325K

FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-11

Public job postings show post-training and evals roles commanding premium salaries: Redwood Research tops the list at $350K–$850K, followed by xAI ($180K–$600K), Mercor ($220K–$600K), OpenAI ($295K–$555K), Perplexity ($220K–$485K), Thinking Machines ($350K–$475K), and Character AI ($275K–$400K).

Across 214 public salary ranges, the median is $210K–$325K — and roughly two-thirds of these positions don't disclose pay at all.

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