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AI & Autonomy in Transportation Salaries

Live posted base-salary benchmarks for ai & autonomy roles at transportation companies.

210 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$232k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$205k–$281k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

210

84% of 250 live openings

Companies disclosing

11

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Director AV Product Engineering

Wayve · United Kingdom · Director

$440k–$580k
2
Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$407k–$512k
3
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Geometric Vision

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$407k–$460k
4
Director, Foundation Model Data Recipes

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Director

$349k–$431k
5
Principal Software Engineer, Perception Pretraining

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Staff / Principal

$349k–$431k
6
Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Mid-Level

$370k–$419k
7
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Vision Models

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$370k–$407k
8
Applied Researcher

Aurora · Pittsburgh, PA · Mid-Level

$223k–$396k
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Methodology

BuildList pulls salary ranges from company applicant tracking systems hourly. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

Non-USD pay is converted to USD, and hourly, weekly, and monthly pay is annualized. Figures are medians and quartiles of each posting's range midpoint, weighted by currently open roles.

Base salary only. Equity and bonus are excluded. Groups with fewer than 30 salaried openings are withheld.

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