The highest paying jobs in AI right now are not the ones people expected.
Autonomous Agent Engineers are pulling $200k to $700k plus.
Research Agents and Multi-Agent Architects are right behind them in the same range.
Cybersecurity and Coding Agents start at $150k and climb to $500k.
These are not senior software engineer salaries dressed up with a new title. The gap between someone who can build a working agent system and someone who cannot is wide enough that companies are paying accordingly.
The people who figured out agentic workflows two years ago are the ones sitting at the top of these ranges right now.