Engineering

Staff Engineer

Staff-plus IC. Wider top-end from refresh and company equity markups.

Seats
21
Median TC
$430k
cashtypicalupsidemarket$111k$1.30M
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

DeweyReads the internet for you.4d Studios
Cursor3 of 6 work-email confirmedCursor · $500M+ ARR · still the default AI IDE$1.02M TC$300k base

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

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

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

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

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

Circle3 of 6 work-email confirmed$454k TC$240k base

Apple$430k TC$230k base

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

SpaceX4 of 8 work-email confirmed$404k TC$226k base

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

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

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

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

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