What AI jobs in Charlotte pay
Every number below is a median taken from the Board's live postings — the 239 of 542 AI jobs open in the Charlotte region right now whose employer printed a salary range in the posting itself. No estimates, no national averages dropped onto a local market: if an employer did not print a number, we do not invent one.
The Board sorts every AI job in the region into four Lanes, and the Lanes pay very differently. Here is each one, median printed range first.
The four Lanes, by pay
Sell
$166K–$214K median printed range14 of 28 postings name a salary
Selling AI work to Charlotte companies that have never bought it before, plus the revenue side that follows — the deals, the demos, the billing.
The highest medians on the Board, and the fewest postings — Charlotte is early in hiring the people who sell this.
Build
$130K–$220K median printed range186 of 422 postings name a salary
Making the thing work: the data, the models, the integrations, the shipping.
The widest door and the row most people ask about first; the code-heavy half of the Board pays like banks pay.
Maintain
$135K–$220K median printed range11 of 35 postings name a salary
Keeping it running after launch day — operations, monitoring, quality, support, uptime.
The steadiest numbers on the Board — the keep-it-running work pays a little under Build and hires on ops experience.
Govern
$135K–$223K median printed range28 of 57 postings name a salary
Keeping it legal, documented and out of trouble.
Compliance, audit and risk backgrounds price near the top, because the rules are the hard part of adopting AI.
40 more postings print an hourly rate — mostly part-time and contract work — and they are counted on the Board but never annualized into the medians above. A few posted ranges are wide, and a median does not flatten them into one number it can't support. The full Board shows every printed range as the employer wrote it.
Why some rows say nothing
279 of 542 postings say what they pay. The medians above use the stricter 239 — the ones that printed an annual figure — because the 40 hourly rates are counted on the Board and never annualized into a salary. The rest followed a hiring convention older than this technology: post the title, hide the number, see who bites.
If a Lane's count looks thin, that is the honest state of the market, not a missing field: the medians move when the postings move, and this page recomputes from the Board every time it loads.
Open right now, and what they pay
The newest listings that print an annual salary, across all four Lanes.
Data Science & Business Intelligence Generalist II
$86K–$110K
Daimler Truck North America · Fort Mill, SC · Hybrid · 2+ years
Build · Found · today
Lead Business Data Analyst with AI implementation experience
$100K–$110K
Synechron · Charlotte, NC
Build · Found · today
SAP Tech Director Generalist ( S/4 Migration, Appdev,integration, brown/blue, RISE+ AI)
$155K–$410K
PwC · Charlotte, NC · 9+ years
Build · Found · today
SAP Tech Lead (App dev, BTP, Integration, SAP AI)-Senior Manager
$124K–$280K
PwC · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 7+ years
Build · Found · today
Data Support Manager
$109K–$204K
Bank of America · Charlotte, NC · 5+ years
Build · Found · today
VPII Product Management, Agentic Product Development Lifecycle
$156K–$261K
LPL Financial · Fort Mill, SC · 10+ years
Build · Found · today
Experienced QA Engineer with Hands-on Automation and AI Skills
$105K–$208K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 6+ years
Maintain · Found · today
Principal Data & AI Architect
$140K–$210K
The Hartford · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 10+ years
Build · Found · today
Head of Global Support
$160K–$220K
Cloudbeds · Charlotte, NC · Remote · 8+ years
Maintain · Found · today
Cyber Operate Manager - GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer
$135K–$265K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · 6+ years
Maintain · Found · 2 days ago
Senior Lead AI Risk Governance Officer
$159K–$305K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 7+ years
Govern · Found · 2 days ago
AI Datacenter Associate VP
$172K–$338K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 12+ years
Sell · Found · 2 days ago
AI/ML Architect - Principal (US - EAST)
$157K–$196K
Slalom · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 6+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Senior Solution Architect, Data & AI
$150K–$200K
Swinerton · Charlotte, NC · 8+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Customer AI Solution Architect
$141K–$278K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · 6+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
AI & Machine Learning Engineering Consultant - Power & Utilities Sector - Manager - Consulting
$126K–$230K
EY · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 6+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (AI Platform)
$173K–$233K
Affirm · Charlotte, NC · Remote · 4+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Principal Engineer - AI Enablement & Adoption
$159K–$305K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 7+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Architect – Google GECX AI Platform
$124K–$125K
Info Way Solutions · Charlotte, NC · On-site · Contract · 12+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Director, Technology Risk Officer – Cyber/AI
$153K–$207K
TIAA · Charlotte, NC · 5+ years
Govern · Found · 3 days ago
Applied AI Lead Product Manager
$111K–$218K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · 10+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Software Engineer II- Full-stack Developer
$96K–$188K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 4+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
VP, Forward Deployed AI Specialist
$159K–$254K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · On-site · 5+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
GenAI/Agentic AI Architect
$116K–$180K
Cognizant · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 18+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Supply Chain - Digital and AI Procurement Solution Architect - Sr Manager
$150K–$344K
EY · Charlotte, NC
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Entry Level Transportation Safety Analyst
$85K–$95K
VHB · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · No experience asked
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Senior Lead AI Research Scientist – Foundation Models & Agentic AI
$185K–$300K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 7+ years
Build · Found · 3 days ago
Vice President II, AI Risk and Governance
$137K–$228K
LPL Financial · Fort Mill, SC · 12+ years
Govern · Found · 4 days ago
ConvergeCONSUMER, Technical Field-Facing Product Manager, Converge Agentic Framework (CAF)_Products & Platforms
$116K–$229K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · 5+ years
Build · Found · 4 days ago
Principal Engineer - Agentic Identity Security
$159K–$254K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · 7+ years
Build · Found · 5 days ago
AI Research Scientist, Foundation Models & Agentic AI
$100K–$196K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 2+ years
Build · Found · 5 days ago
Artificial Intelligence Solutions Director - Fargo Virtual Assistant
$215K–$355K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 10+ years
Build · Found · 5 days ago
Digital Technology - AI & Data Change Manager (Hybrid)
$108K–$205K
Collins Aerospace · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 8+ years
Govern · Found · 6 days ago
Artificial Intelligence Solutions Director - Fargo Virtual Assistant for Business Banking
$215K–$355K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 10+ years
Build · Found · 6 days ago
Artificial Intelligence Solutions Director - Fargo Virtual Assistant Platform
$215K–$355K
Wells Fargo · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 10+ years
Build · Found · 6 days ago
Associate Director - Data and Analytics (Hybird)
$157K–$299K
Collins Aerospace · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 16+ years
Build · Found · 6 days ago
Senior Process Manager, Process Transformation
$149K–$170K
Capital One · Charlotte, NC · Hybrid · 5+ years
Build · Found · 6 days ago
Financial Planning and Analytics Data and Analytics - Assistant Director
$104K–$195K
EY · Charlotte, NC · 5+ years
Build · Found · 6 days ago
Physical and Spatial AI Engineer III
$116K–$229K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · Remote · 5+ years
Build · Found · 6 days ago
Physical and Spatial AI Architect
$152K–$253K
Deloitte · Charlotte, NC · 6+ years
Build · Found · 6 days ago
What if none of these are for you yet?
Pay is the answer to "is it worth moving", not "can I". The Lane decides that — three of the four do not run on code, and they hire on the work you have already done. We wrote a whole page on which door is already yours: AI jobs in Charlotte without a CS degree.
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This page, the Board behind it, and the newsletter are run end to end by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is why the medians above are always recomputed from the live market rather than written once and left to rot.