Llms Salary at Startups (2026): $130k median

Market Signal (August 2026)

Top Hirers: HomeVision leads hiring for Llms roles with 4 active posts, followed by Comper.

🌍 Location & Remote Dynamics

Remote Premium: Remote Llms roles currently fetch a 8% salary premium (median $140,000) compared to onsite positions.

💡 Tech Stack Context

Common Stack: 30% of Llms jobs also require AWS, and 28% mention Python.

💰 Compensation Analysis

The median base salary for Llms developers is $130,000, with top-tier roles (P75) reaching $150,000.

Llms salary FAQ

What is the median Llms developer salary at startups?

The median Llms salary is $130k, based on 43 verified Hacker News 'Who is Hiring' listings as of August 2026.

What is the salary range for Llms roles?

Llms roles run from $100k (25th percentile) to $150k (75th percentile), with top listings reaching $200k.

Do remote Llms jobs pay more than onsite?

Remote Llms roles show a median of $140k versus $128k onsite in this dataset.

Llms jobs (43 total)

COMPANY	ROLE	SALARY	VIBE	STACK
MyPlanAdvocate	Principal Full-Stack Engineer	USD 200,000 +	[E] CRUNCH	AWS Lambda Ec2 +5	HN Apply
Cora AI	Founding Full Stack / Applied AI Engineer	USD 190,000 - USD 250,000	[F] stable	AI Ides Cursor Claude Code +1	HN Apply
Plush	Founding ML/Search Engineer	USD 180,000 - USD 200,000	[F] CRUNCH	Llms Embeddings Machine Learning +2	HN Apply
Oboe	Full Stack Engineer	USD 170,000 - USD 230,000	[F] grind	Node.js TypeScript React +3	HN Apply
Faraday	Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Backend)	USD 160,000 - USD 200,000	@HR grind	TypeScript JavaScript AWS +4	HN Apply
Rapport	Founding AI Engineer + Founding Data Engineer	USD 160,000 - USD 220,000	[F] CRUNCH	Python SQL FastAPI +7	HN Apply
Ohr	Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer	USD 150,000 - USD 220,000	[F] zen	Llms OCR Apis +5	HN Apply
River	Senior + Staff Engineers (Elixir, React, ML/AI)	USD 150,000 - USD 250,000	[F] zen	Elixir React Machine Learning +7	HN Apply
Strum AI	Founding Engineer	USD 150,000 - USD 150,000	[F] CRUNCH	Llms Deep Learning Optimization +2	HN Apply
HomeVision	Software Engineer	USD 150,000 - USD 220,000	[F] grind	Llms Multi Modal Models	HN Apply
Cassi	Founding Engineer - Frontend	USD 150,000 - USD 200,000	[E] grind	React TypeScript CSS +1	HN Apply
VLM Run	Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems	USD 150,000 - USD 220,000	[E] CRUNCH	Vision Language Models Llms Temporal/video Models +12	HN Apply
VLM Run	Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems, Developer Relations	USD 150,000 - USD 220,000	[E] CRUNCH	Vision Language Models Llms Temporal/video Models +10	HN Apply
Aimcast	Staff Software Engineer, Staff ML Engineer, Senior Fullstack Engineer	USD 150,000 - USD 200,000	[E] grind	PHP AWS Azure +4	HN Apply
Bustem.com	Founding Engineer	USD 140,000 - USD 180,000	[F] stable	Next.js PostgreSQL Llms	HN Apply
Synaps	Senior Product Engineer	EUR 140,000 - EUR 200,000 ≈ $151k	[E] CRUNCH	Python Llms GCP +1	HN Apply
Thrive Career Wellness Inc	LLMOps Engineer	USD 140,000 - USD 160,000	[E] CRUNCH	Llms Vector Databases Embeddings +2	HN Apply
YCharts	Software Engineer - Applied AI	USD 140,000 - USD 180,000	[F] grind	FastAPI Django Celery +5	HN Apply
Roger Healthcare	Senior/Staff Backend Engineer & Junior Backend Engineer	USD 140,000 - USD 230,000	[F] grind	FastAPI MongoDB PostgreSQL +3	HN Apply
Republic Services	AI Staff Engineer	USD 132,600 - USD 182,250	@HR grind	Genai Llms Agentic AI +7	HN Apply
SalesJack	Data Engineer	CAD 130,000 - CAD 150,000 ≈ $95k	[E] grind	Python Etl Erp +4	HN Apply
Connie Health	Multiple senior engineering roles	USD 130,000 - USD 182,000	[F] CRUNCH	Python Scikit Learn PyTorch +10	HN Apply
Exa	AI Research, Rust Engineer, Full Stack Engineer	USD 130,000 - USD 350,000	[F] grind	Llms AI Powered Search Algorithms Embeddings +2	HN Apply
Exa	AI Research, High Performance Rust, Full Stack Engineer	USD 130,000 - USD 350,000	[F] CRUNCH	Llms AI Powered Search Algorithms Embeddings +2	HN Apply
PermitFlow	Staff, Fullstack & Frontend Software Engineers	USD 125,000 - USD 275,000	[F] grind	Software Artificial Intelligence Llms	HN Apply
OmniAI	Full Stack Engineers	USD 125,000 - USD 200,000	[F] grind	TypeScript Node.js React +5	HN Apply
Acrolinx	Software Engineer (Python) (AI/LLM)	USD 125,000 - USD 150,000	[E] grind	Python Http Apis Relational Databases +17	HN Apply
OmniAI	Founding Engineers	USD 125,000 - USD 175,000	[F] CRUNCH	TypeScript PostgreSQL Docker +2	HN Apply
Breezy	AI Product Engineer	USD 120,000 - USD 150,000	[E] stable	TypeScript React Node.js +4	HN Apply
Vertex Inc	AI Product Engineer	USD 104,900 - USD 136,400	[E] CRUNCH	Llms Genai React +1	HN Apply
HomeVision	Multiple Roles (Engineer, SRE, Analytics Engineer)	USD 100,000 - USD 220,000	[F] stable	Llms AWS Terraform +2	HN Apply
HomeVision	Multiple Roles - Engineer, SRE, Analytics	USD 100,000 - USD 220,000	[E] grind	AWS Terraform Llms +3	HN Apply
HomeVision	Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, SRE	USD 100,000 - USD 220,000	[F] grind	AWS Terraform Llms +1	HN Apply
Prompt Health	Senior Full Stack Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Support Engineer, Senior AI Engineer	USD 90,000 - USD 225,000	[E] grind	PHP PHP Vue.js +15	HN Apply
SuppMatch	CTO	USD 85,000 - USD 102,000	[F] grind	Python TypeScript React Native +8	HN Apply
Charter.ai	Engineer #2	GBP 84,000 - GBP 120,000 ≈ $107k	[E] CRUNCH	Excel Powerpoint Llms +5	HN Apply
Comper	Software Engineer #2 (Frontend focus)	EUR 80,000 - EUR 110,000 ≈ $86k	[F] stable	JavaScript TypeScript React +3	HN Apply
Comper	Software Engineer / Designer	EUR 80,000 - EUR 100,000 ≈ $86k	[F] grind	Llms UI Canvas	HN Apply
Comper	Product Designer / UI Engineer	EUR 80,000 - EUR 100,000 ≈ $86k	[F] grind	Llms Git	HN Apply
CEF AI	AI Innovator & Principal Software Engineer	USD 80,000 - USD 200,000	[E] CRUNCH	Golang Rust Android +8	HN Apply

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