Salary guide
Physical AI Salary Guide
Compensation benchmarks for robotics, autonomy, simulation, controls, perception, and related Physical AI jobs. Figures use public listings with annual USD salary data and exclude clear outliers.
Median salary
$197,500
75th percentile
$234,500
90th percentile
$273,110
Salary samples
1,853
Salary by role area
Role areas are based on topic matches across active public listings. Median and upper-quartile values use annual USD midpoint salary data.
| Role area | Median | 75th pct. | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomy Jobs | $204,200 | $238,000 | 1,345 |
| Physical AI Jobs | $205,000 | $240,500 | 1,323 |
| Robotics Jobs | $196,600 | $226,100 | 1,189 |
| Simulation Jobs | $219,772 | $255,000 | 779 |
| Robot Perception Engineer Jobs | $211,000 | $242,540 | 724 |
| Controls Engineer Jobs | $195,000 | $225,000 | 511 |
| Embodied AI Jobs | $225,000 | $268,000 | 310 |
| Motion Planning Jobs | $215,000 | $242,000 | 270 |
| SLAM Engineer Jobs | $219,000 | $248,060 | 265 |
| SLAM Jobs | $219,000 | $248,060 | 265 |
| Robotics Engineer Jobs | $220,000 | $256,000 | 120 |
| ROS Jobs | $200,000 | $215,000 | 112 |
Salary by location
| Location | Median | 75th pct. | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View, USA | $235,500 | $270,000 | 298 |
| Palo Alto, USA | $196,000 | $254,000 | 168 |
| Costa Mesa, USA | $193,000 | $241,500 | 135 |
| San Francisco, USA | $231,500 | $270,000 | 110 |
| South San Francisco, USA | $185,000 | $205,000 | 99 |
| Sunnyvale, USA | $234,500 | $289,900 | 97 |
| Fremont, USA | $175,000 | $220,000 | 88 |
| Santa Clara, USA | $235,200 | $240,000 | 85 |
| Pittsburgh, USA | $190,500 | $238,000 | 62 |
| North Reading, USA | $168,000 | $177,650 | 61 |
| Seattle, USA | $193,000 | $216,250 | 59 |
| Torrance, USA | $184,750 | $224,250 | 55 |
Remote vs onsite salary
Unspecified
$196,900
1,445 samples
Onsite
$189,050
148 samples
Hybrid
$211,000
145 samples
Remote
$195,050
115 samples
Salary by skill
Methodology
This page uses approved public jobs on Physical AI Jobs with annual USD salary data. For salary ranges, the midpoint is used. Listings with unusually low or high midpoint compensation are excluded to reduce distortion from parsing errors, equity-like numbers, hourly values, or malformed postings.
Many companies do not publish compensation, so salary tables should be read as directional benchmarks, not a complete market census.