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Industry vertical.

AI Finance Roles.

Where AI meets capital.

25

Tracked roles

$185K

Median salary

$100K - $299K

Full range

By Justin Bartak, Founder & Chief AI Officer·Updated May 2026·Q2 2026 benchmarks

Finance pays AI engineers more than almost any other vertical, and the reason is simple: the work moves real money. Quantitative trading, fraud detection, insurance underwriting, risk modeling, fintech engineering. Banks, hedge funds, prop shops, fintechs, and insurance carriers all bid against each other for the same engineers. Compensation reflects the bidding war. Roles below are sorted by base salary.

Roles in ai finance roles.

AI Finance Roles ranked by base median salary, sourced from Orbyt Intelligence Q2 2026.
RoleLowMedianHigh
AI Trading Strategist$179K$230K$299K
Quantum Computing AI Researcher$176K$225K$293K
Fintech AI Engineer$172K$220K$286K
AI Risk Analytics Engineer$168K$215K$280K
AI Financial Engineer$155K$210K$270K
Financial AI Product Manager$164K$210K$273K
Crypto AI Engineer$160K$205K$267K
Quantum ML Researcher$148K$200K$265K
Quantitative AI Researcher$150K$200K$260K
Banking AI Engineer$156K$200K$260K
AI Fraud Strategist$152K$195K$254K
AI Fintech Engineer$140K$188K$248K
AI Trading Systems Engineer$140K$185K$240K
Fintech ML Engineer$144K$184K$239K
AI Risk Manager$135K$175K$225K
AI Portfolio Manager$130K$172K$228K
AI Payments Engineer$133K$170K$221K
AI Fintech Product Manager$130K$168K$210K
AI Payment Fraud Engineer$129K$165K$215K
AI Financial Planning Engineer$125K$160K$208K
AI Insurance Pricing Engineer$125K$160K$208K
AI Insurance Underwriting Specialist$115K$155K$205K
Insurance ML Engineer$119K$152K$198K
AI Fraud Detection Engineer$110K$145K$185K
AI Insurance Engineer$100K$135K$172K

Top cities.

Median ai finance roles salary across the top U.S. metros for AI compensation. Multiplier reflects local cost of living relative to the national median.

San Francisco, CA

$250K

+35% vs. national

New York, NY

$237K

+28% vs. national

Seattle, WA

$229K

+24% vs. national

Boston, MA

$226K

+22% vs. national

Austin, TX

$191K

+3% vs. national

Denver, CO

$200K

+8% vs. national

Los Angeles, CA

$218K

+18% vs. national

Chicago, IL

$198K

+7% vs. national

Atlanta, GA

$189K

+2% vs. national

Washington DC, DC

$231K

+25% vs. national

Common questions.

Not always, but it shortens the interview. Most engineers hired into AI finance roles have a quant background (math, physics, CS) plus on-the-job finance learning, OR an MBA/CFA plus serious technical chops. Pure finance majors without coding lose to engineers with finance interest.

Quant trading. Top hedge funds and prop shops pay AI engineers $400K to $800K total comp with extreme bonus skew. Fintech runs $200K to $400K with more stable equity. Quant has higher upside; fintech has more career stability.

Less than they used to be. AI finance roles got promoted from cost center to revenue center over the past 24 months. Even in a banking downturn, AI fraud detection and AI risk modeling stay funded because the ROI is direct and immediate.

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