Scale AIProduction engineering
Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector
Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 moreAustin, TX +5Hybrid
$186,000–$279,000
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$75,000–$175,000
SiftProduction engineering
Application Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CASan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$125,000–$175,000
WriterProduction engineering
AI deployment engineer (UK)
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreSan Francisco, CA +4Hybrid
Pay not posted
$87,100–$157,450
Liquid AIProduction engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Embedded ML Engineer (Audio/Omni)
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
WriterProduction engineering
AI deployment engineer (East)
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreSan Francisco, CA +4Hybrid
$146,400–$185,000
Trase SystemsProduction engineering
Staff Software Engineer (Product + Platform Development)
Seattle, WA · Mclean, VASeattle, WA +1Remote
$180,000–$240,000
$107,900–$195,050
$185,000–$230,000
WriterProduction engineering
AI deployment engineer (Central)
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreSan Francisco, CA +4Hybrid
$131,800–$166,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Field Engineer, Public Sector
Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +3 moreAustin, TX +4
$150,400–$226,550
$180,000–$390,000
StriveworksProduction engineering
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)
Tacoma, WAHybrid
$185,000–$230,000
$175,000–$230,000
AccentureProduction engineering
AI Native Engineer - Reinvention Center
Columbus, OH · Tampa, FL · +2 moreColumbus, OH +3Hybrid
$62,800–$261,500
$138,000–$170,000
$200,000–$230,000
Pay not posted
$191,000–$253,000
Pay not posted
Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Delivery Consultant- AI/ML, Data & Machine Learning (DML)
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VAArlington, VA +1
$131,300–$177,600
$200,000–$400,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Delivery Consultant- AI/ML, Data & Machine Learning (DML)
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VAArlington, VA +1
$131,300–$177,600
OpenAIProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$251,000–$278,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$390,000
$130,000–$180,000
$251,000–$278,000
$166,000–$220,000
$180,000–$390,000
Pay not posted
OpenAIProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives
San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WASan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$251,000–$278,000
$166,000–$220,000
Pay not posted
Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Delivery Consultant- AI/ML, WWPS ProServe
Jersey City, NJ · Austin, TX · +8 moreJersey City, NJ +9
$131,300–$204,300
$185,000–$230,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do production engineering jobs for individual contributors pay?
416 of 565 postings state a pay range. The median is $193,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $230,000, across 187 companies.
How much experience do production engineering jobs for individual contributors require?
Of 565 postings, 191 state a minimum number of years, from 114 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 98 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (49), under 3 years (41) or 10 or more years (3).
Which companies are hiring for production engineering jobs for individual contributors?
These 565 postings come from 266 companies. The employers with the most postings are Palantir (32), Anduril (21), Booz Allen (20), Accenture (19) and OpenAI (14).
Are production engineering jobs for individual contributors remote?
84 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 141 are hybrid and 172 are on-site. The remaining 168 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 264 of the 565 postings.
Counted over the 565 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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