MercuryRemote
Staff Data Scientist - Risk ML
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States $239k – $299k/yr
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AI & Machine Learning salary in Canada
What employers are offering right now, from 40 live AI & Machine Learning postings in Canada that publish a pay range. Updated October 2026.
Median
$202k
a year, base pay
Middle half
$185k–$229k
25th to 75th percentile
Highest posted
$269k
range midpoint
How the offers are spread
$130k
$147k
$164k
$182k
$199k
$217k
$234k
$251k
AI & Machine Learning pay by level
| Level | Median | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | $186k | 14 |
| Staff & principal | $203k | 13 |
Top-paying companies for AI & Machine Learning roles
Highest-paying open AI & Machine Learning jobs
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San Francisco · Toronto Full-time $165k – $330k/yr
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AI Inference Engineer
San Francisco · Remote Full-time $165k – $330k/yr
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Software Engineer - Voice AI (Inference Runtime)
San Francisco · Toronto Full-time $165k – $330k/yr
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Product Architect, AI (Auth0)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada $208k – $286k/yr
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Okta for AI Agents
Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Toronto, Ontario, Canada $200k – $275k/yr
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AI & Machine Learning salary: common questions
- What is the average AI & Machine Learning salary in Canada?
- The median midpoint of 40 live AI & Machine Learning postings in Canada is $202k a year. Half of them fall between $185k and $229k.
- How does AI & Machine Learning pay change with seniority?
- senior postings $186k. Staff, principal and director roles usually pay more and often add equity.
- Which companies pay AI & Machine Learning roles the most?
- Among companies with at least two postings, the highest medians are at Baseten ($248k), Mercury ($221k), Faire ($214k), GitLab ($206k).
- Where do these numbers come from?
- From the pay ranges employers publish in their own job postings (required in states such as California, Colorado, New York, Washington and Illinois). We take the midpoint of each range, convert hourly pay at 2,080 hours a year, and update the figures daily as postings open and close. They show base pay, not bonus or equity.
Other salaries in Canada
- Engineering Manager · $218k
- Research Scientist · $214k
- Data Scientist · $206k
- DevOps Engineer · $206k
- Solutions Engineer · $205k
- Product Manager · $201k
- Cybersecurity · $199k
- Software Engineer · $190k
- Frontend Developer · $188k
- Backend Developer · $186k
- Data Engineer · $185k
- Full Stack Developer · $182k
- Product & UX Designer · $176k
- Legal & Compliance · $175k
- Program Manager · $174k
- Sales · $170k
- Mobile Developer · $168k
- Marketing · $165k
- Data Analyst · $145k
- Operations · $140k
- QA Engineer · $140k
- Finance & Accounting · $137k
- HR & Recruiting · $128k
- Customer Success · $124k
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