Tech & AI salaries in LATAM, 2026
Open salary benchmarks for LATAM engineers, AI/ML specialists, data, design and product talent. Sourced from HiresLink placements + market benchmarks. All ranges in USD per month.
25 roles · Argentina-anchored · cross-country comparisons inside each role · updated June 2026
| Role | Typical stack | From (USD/mo) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backend Engineer | Python / Django / FastAPI | $2,600 | View → |
| Frontend Engineer | React / Next.js | $2,200 | View → |
| Full-Stack Engineer | React + Node.js | $2,450 | View → |
| Mobile Developer | React Native | $3,900 | View → |
| DevOps / SRE | AWS / Terraform / Docker | $4,500 | View → |
| QA Engineer | Manual + Automation | $1,700 | View → |
| Data Engineer | Python / Spark / SQL | $4,500 | View → |
| AI / ML Engineer | Python / PyTorch / TensorFlow | $6,700 | View → |
| AI Automation Specialist | n8n / Make / Zapier + LLM APIs | $4,950 | View → |
| Prompt Engineer / LLM Specialist | — | $4,200 | View → |
| Data Scientist | Python / R / SQL | $4,200 | View → |
| Technical Lead / Engineering Manager | — | $8,100 | View → |
| Product Manager | — | $4,950 | View → |
| UX/UI Designer | Figma / Design Systems | $1,950 | View → |
| Machine Learning Engineer | Python / Scikit-learn / XGBoost | $5,800 | View → |
| Computer Vision Engineer | Python / OpenCV / YOLO / PyTorch | $6,200 | View → |
| NLP Engineer | Python / Hugging Face / spaCy / NLTK | $6,000 | View → |
| Deep Learning Engineer | Python / PyTorch / JAX / CUDA | $6,500 | View → |
| LLM Developer | LangChain / LlamaIndex / RAG | $5,800 | View → |
| AI Operations Manager | — | $5,500 | View → |
| MLOps Engineer | AWS SageMaker / MLflow / Kubeflow | $5,800 | View → |
| AI Product Manager | — | $5,200 | View → |
| AI Consultant | Strategy + Implementation | $5,000 | View → |
| AI Solutions Architect | Cloud AI / AWS / GCP / Azure ML | $8,500 | View → |
| AI Business Analyst | — | $3,800 | View → |