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Lightning AI Salary

Lightning AI Salary

Lightning AI pays a median of $180K ($148K–$194K) across 20 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $148K–$194K salary range

Median: $180K  ·  Based on 20 public Lightning AI job postings  ·  Updated July 1, 2026


This Lightning AI salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Lightning AI · pay benchmark · updated July 1, 2026
$180K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$148K–$194K
Typical range
$275K view JD
Highest base · Senior Product Manager, Experimentation Tooling
20
Open roles
~6 yrs
Typical exp.
+3
17 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 85% of roles mention equity
IC salary by seniority
Mid
$93K (5)
Senior
$190K (9)
Salary by department · median & top base
people & operations
$180K · $210K top (5)
Pay by location
New York $193K (7)Remote $185K (6)San Francisco $183K (4)
Highest-paying skills
Go $190KKubernetes $185KPython $180KPyTorch $180KLess $180K

Highest-paying open roles at Lightning AI

Lightning AI salary by department

  • people & operations: $180K median · $210K top base — FP&A Manager (view JD) (5 roles)

Lightning AI salary by seniority

  • Mid: $93K median · $195K top base — Machine Learning Solutions Engineer (ML + Infrastructure Focus) (view JD) (5)
  • Senior: $190K median · $275K top base — Senior Product Manager, Experimentation Tooling (view JD) (9)

Lightning AI salary by location

  • New York: $193K median · $275K top base — Senior Product Manager, Experimentation Tooling (view JD) (7 roles)
  • Remote: $185K median · $200K top base — Infrastructure Operations Engineer (view JD) (6 roles)
  • San Francisco: $183K median · $220K top base — Senior Application Security Engineer, AI and Machine Learning (view JD) (4 roles)

Remote work at Lightning AI

33% of Lightning AI's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly. Remote roles run a $185K median vs $93K onsite.

What Lightning AI looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: PyTorch (14) · Python (9) · Kubernetes (5) · Go (3) · AWS (2) · Terraform (2) · Account Management (1) · Escalation Management (1) · GCP (1) · Azure (1).

Benefits & perks at Lightning AI

Commonly listed: dental (18) · vision (18) · pto (18) · parental (18) · bonus (14).

About Lightning AI

Lightning AI is Late Stage stage · 11–50 employees · founded 2019 · HQ New York, New York. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Lightning AI

Roles typically ask for around 6 years of experience (up to 10+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 2 that do, Bachelor's is most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 85% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Lightning AI total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 78% of roles list a bonus; common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Lightning AI hiring activity

Lightning AI has 20 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 20 public job postings with disclosed pay. 3 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (17 in the last 90).

💼 Similar companies hiring

Compare Lightning AI's pay with companies in the same space:

CompanyMedian payvs Lightning AIStage
Baseten$248K↑ +38%Series F
Basis AI$188K↑ +4%Late Stage
BeyondRisk AI-6$128K↓ -29%Seed
Rescale$167K↓ -7%Series D
Anthropic$356K↑ +98%Series H
Fluidstack$210K↑ +17%Series D

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Common questions

What does Lightning AI pay?
The median pay is $180K, with a typical range of $148K–$194K, based on 20 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Lightning AI?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Senior Product Manager, Experimentation Tooling, at $160K–$275K base.

Which team pays the most at Lightning AI?
The people & operations team, at a $180K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 20 public Lightning AI job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed July 1, 2026.

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