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
CompanyRangeBaseTC
- $300k$1.25M
- $363k$1.16M
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- $300k$1.02M
- $310k$645k
You can be hereRecsponsors- $260k$640k
- $260k$620k
- $280k$620k
DeweyPlacedRec4d StudiosReads the internet for you.sponsored
- $240k$563k
- $280k$560k
- $230k$558k
- $255k$545k
- $320k$531k
- $250k$520k
You can be hereRecsponsors- $250k$520k
- $248k$510k
- $510k$510k
- $266k$504k
- $230k$480k
- $193k$473k
- $224k$465k
- $240k$454k
- $230k$430k
- $230k$429k
- $242k$422k
- $220k$420k
- $220k$416k
- $226k$404k
- $210k$400k
- $265k$365k
- $210k$362k
- $200k$347k
- $241k$337k
- $199k$326k
- $195k$314k
- $220k$300k
- $200k$280k
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- $187k$280k
- $186k$274k
- $200k$250k
- $180k$215k
- $165k$200k
Anthropic
5 of 9 work-email confirmedClaude · $5B ARR · +120% · Series F$1.25M TC$300k base
OpenAI
6 of 12 work-email confirmed$13B ARR · +80% · still the default AI seat$1.16M TC$363k base
Cursor
3 of 6 work-email confirmedCursor · $500M+ ARR · still the default AI IDE$1.02M TC$300k base
Reddit
4 of 8 work-email confirmedRDDT +32% 1y · ads + AI licensing$645k TC$310k base
NVIDIA
14 of 22 work-email confirmedNVDA +48% 1y · data-center run-rate still compounding$640k TC$260k base
Figure
4 of 6 work-email confirmedHumanoid · BMW line · 2026 raise · hottest metal seat$620k TC$260k base
Thinking Machines
3 of 4 work-email confirmedMira's lab · 2026-hot · tiny book$620k TC$280k base
Snap
5 of 10 work-email confirmedSNAP +18% 1y · paper-heavy L4+$563k TC$240k base
Sierra
3 of 4 work-email confirmedBret Taylor · $15.8B · enterprise agents$560k TC$280k base
DoorDash
6 of 9 work-email confirmedDASH +26% 1y · marketplace + ads$558k TC$230k base
Meta
19 of 29 work-email confirmedMETA +38% 1y · ads + Reality Labs spend$545k TC$255k base
ByteDance
9 of 14 work-email confirmed$531k TC$320k base
GoogleGOOGL +24% 1y · search + YouTube$520k TC$250k base
Cognition
3 of 5 work-email confirmedDevin · 2026-hot agent lab$520k TC$250k base
Stripe
8 of 15 work-email confirmed$6.5B ARR · +24% · payments gravity$510k TC$248k base
Netflix
8 of 16 work-email confirmedNFLX +32% 1y · cash-max IC$510k TC$510k base
Coinbase
10 of 14 work-email confirmedCOIN +28% 1y · cycle-tied cash$504k TC$266k base
NVIDIA
9 of 14 work-email confirmedNVDA +48% 1y · data-center run-rate still compounding$480k TC$230k base
Broadcom
6 of 10 work-email confirmedAVGO +38% 1y · VMware + silicon$473k TC$193k base
Cerebras
3 of 6 work-email confirmedCBRS · wafer-scale · IPO May 2026$465k TC$224k base
Circle
3 of 6 work-email confirmedUSDC · public RSUs after listing$454k TC$240k base
Apple$430k TC$230k base
Pinterest
5 of 9 work-email confirmed$429k TC$230k base
Rivian
4 of 7 work-email confirmed$422k TC$242k base
Waymo
5 of 10 work-email confirmedRobotaxi · Alphabet · rides compounding$420k TC$220k base
Spotify
5 of 8 work-email confirmedSPOT +48% 1y · audio ads + premium$416k TC$220k base
SpaceX
4 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 AI
3 of 4 work-email confirmedOpen models · $8.3B · $325k mid$365k TC$265k base
Groq
3 of 5 work-email confirmedLPU inference · hot chip seat$362k TC$210k base
Intuit
5 of 10 work-email confirmed$347k TC$200k base
Ripple
4 of 6 work-email confirmed$337k TC$241k base
Applied Intuition
3 of 6 work-email confirmed$326k TC$199k base
AMD
7 of 10 work-email confirmedAMD +22% 1y · MI300 vs NVDA$314k TC$195k base
Hadrian
4 of 6 work-email confirmed$300k TC$220k base
Boston Dynamics
4 of 8 work-email confirmed$280k TC$200k base
Helion
3 of 4 work-email confirmedFusion · $15.5B · Microsoft PPA · Series G$280k TC$210k base
Palo Alto Networks
6 of 12 work-email confirmed$280k TC$187k base
Qualcomm
8 of 12 work-email confirmed$274k TC$186k base
Standard Bots
3 of 6 work-email confirmed$250k TC$200k base
Relativity Space
4 of 6 work-email confirmed$215k TC$180k base
iRobot
3 of 6 work-email confirmed$200k TC$165k base