AI / ML Engineer Salary in Oregon (2026)

Worth knowing: Intel Hillsboro's AI accelerator engineering organization is among the country's most concentrated semiconductor AI engineering teams and a feature most national ML surveys understate for OR. Intel's AI silicon strategy is anchored in Hillsboro across Habana Labs Gaudi accelerators (Intel's primary cloud-AI accelerator family competing with NVIDIA H100/H200/B100) + Intel AI software stack including OpenVINO + Intel oneAPI + Intel Extension for PyTorch — Intel's deepest AI silicon + AI software engineering investments after the 2019 Habana Labs acquisition are concentrated in Hillsboro alongside Israel. Senior Intel Hillsboro AI engineers clear $175-285K TC. Nike's AI investments include substantial Nike Fit (3D foot scan + size recommendation) + SNKRS personalization + Nike Run Club + Nike Training Club ML — Nike operates one of the country's largest consumer-product personalization ML organizations outside the major DTC retailers. OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute clinical AI program operates substantial computational pathology + radiology + genomics AI development. OR's 9.9% top bracket catches senior ML engineer comp at $250K+ TC — and Portland-metro residents face the combined Multnomah PFA 1.5%/3% + Metro SHS 1% layered surtaxes pushing combined Portland-resident top to 13.9%+ at $250K+, creating substantial residency-arbitrage opportunity for senior ML engineers willing to live outside the three-county Metro tax zone.