Engineering

Staff Engineer salary

Typical Staff Engineer across 42 published seats is $430,000. Staff-plus IC. Wider top-end from refresh and company equity markups.

Seats
42
Median TC
$430k
cashtypicalupsidemarket$126k–$989k
Anthropic5 of 9 work-email confirmedClaude · $5B ARR · +120% · Series F$1.25M TC$300k base

OpenAI6 of 12 work-email confirmed$13B ARR · +80% · still the default AI seat$1.16M TC$363k base

4d StudiosPlacedRecHiring a Shorts Media GTM person.4d Studios
Cursor3 of 6 work-email confirmedCursor · $500M+ ARR · still the default AI IDE$1.02M TC$300k base

Reddit4 of 8 work-email confirmedRDDT +32% 1y · ads + AI licensing$645k TC$310k base

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NVIDIA14 of 22 work-email confirmedNVDA +48% 1y · data-center run-rate still compounding$640k TC$260k base

Figure4 of 6 work-email confirmedHumanoid · BMW line · 2026 raise · hottest metal seat$620k TC$260k base

Thinking Machines3 of 4 work-email confirmedMira's lab · 2026-hot · tiny book$620k TC$280k base

DeweyPlacedRecReads the internet for you.4d Studios
Snap5 of 10 work-email confirmedSNAP +18% 1y · paper-heavy L4+$563k TC$240k base

Sierra3 of 4 work-email confirmedBret Taylor · $15.8B · enterprise agents$560k TC$280k base

DoorDash6 of 9 work-email confirmedDASH +26% 1y · marketplace + ads$558k TC$230k base

Meta19 of 29 work-email confirmedMETA +38% 1y · ads + Reality Labs spend$545k TC$255k base

ByteDance9 of 14 work-email confirmed$531k TC$320k base

GoogleGOOGL +24% 1y · search + YouTube$520k TC$250k base

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Cognition3 of 5 work-email confirmedDevin · 2026-hot agent lab$520k TC$250k base

Stripe8 of 15 work-email confirmed$6.5B ARR · +24% · payments gravity$510k TC$248k base

Netflix8 of 16 work-email confirmedNFLX +32% 1y · cash-max IC$510k TC$510k base

Coinbase10 of 14 work-email confirmedCOIN +28% 1y · cycle-tied cash$504k TC$266k base

NVIDIA9 of 14 work-email confirmedNVDA +48% 1y · data-center run-rate still compounding$480k TC$230k base

Broadcom6 of 10 work-email confirmedAVGO +38% 1y · VMware + silicon$473k TC$193k base

Cerebras3 of 6 work-email confirmedCBRS · wafer-scale · IPO May 2026$465k TC$224k base

Circle3 of 6 work-email confirmedUSDC · public RSUs after listing$454k TC$240k base

Apple$430k TC$230k base

Pinterest5 of 9 work-email confirmed$429k TC$230k base

Rivian4 of 7 work-email confirmed$422k TC$242k base

Waymo5 of 10 work-email confirmedRobotaxi · Alphabet · rides compounding$420k TC$220k base

Spotify5 of 8 work-email confirmedSPOT +48% 1y · audio ads + premium$416k TC$220k base

SpaceX4 of 8 work-email confirmedStarlink + launch · private tenders · still the hottest metal seat$404k TC$226k base

TeslaTSLA +36% 1y · FSD + Optimus$400k TC$210k base

Together AI3 of 4 work-email confirmedOpen models · $8.3B · $325k mid$365k TC$265k base

Groq3 of 5 work-email confirmedLPU inference · hot chip seat$362k TC$210k base

Intuit5 of 10 work-email confirmed$347k TC$200k base

Ripple4 of 6 work-email confirmed$337k TC$241k base

Applied Intuition3 of 6 work-email confirmed$326k TC$199k base

AMD7 of 10 work-email confirmedAMD +22% 1y · MI300 vs NVDA$314k TC$195k base

Hadrian4 of 6 work-email confirmed$300k TC$220k base

Boston Dynamics4 of 8 work-email confirmed$280k TC$200k base

Helion3 of 4 work-email confirmedFusion · $15.5B · Microsoft PPA · Series G$280k TC$210k base

Palo Alto Networks6 of 12 work-email confirmed$280k TC$187k base

Qualcomm8 of 12 work-email confirmed$274k TC$186k base

Standard Bots3 of 6 work-email confirmed$250k TC$200k base

Relativity Space4 of 6 work-email confirmed$215k TC$180k base

iRobot3 of 6 work-email confirmed$200k TC$165k base

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