| Employer and role | Evidence and location | Advertised compensation | What it signals — desk inference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Together AI — Forward Deployed Engineer, Post-Training | Full employer listing; San Francisco | $270,000–$300,000; the listing mixes “base salary” wording with “OTE”, plus equity/benefits | A need to connect customer data, experiments and compute to production outcomes |
| Scale AI — Machine Learning Research Scientist, Evaluations | Full employer listing; San Francisco, Seattle or New York | $165,600–$207,000 stated US base salary; equity/benefits separate | Dedicated benchmark design and failure diagnosis, rather than training alone |
| Baseten — Software Engineer, Training Product | Employer-indexed listing; hybrid; exact location not captured in this pass | $165,000–$330,000 labelled compensation, plus equity | Product and infrastructure work around how users train models |
| Fireworks — AI Field Engineer, Strategic Partnerships | Employer-indexed listing; location and full terms not verified | $200,000–$260,000 labelled compensation | Customer-facing engineering and technical adoption capacity |
Sources: Together vacancy, Scale vacancy, Baseten vacancy and Fireworks vacancy. Posting dates were not established; the observation date is not the publication date. Reopen each listing before recruitment or outreach.
Do not average these four numbers. They mix employers, roles, levels, compensation definitions and access quality. Together’s inconsistent base/OTE wording needs recruiter clarification; the two indexed-only ranges are directional advertised information, not verified base-pay bands.