AI pay
Infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps Engineer pay
Disclosed yearly base-pay ranges in current Infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps Engineer listings at U.S. AI companies and labs, from the employers’ own job listings. 403 of 512 current listings (79%) disclose one; 354 of those appear only in the job description. Listings last checked Oct 19, 2026.
The figures
- Listings with disclosed pay
- 403
- of 512 current listings
- Median of range midpoints
- $193K
- a year, base pay
- Middle range (25th–75th percentile)
- $168K–$223K
- half of the midpoints fall here
- Remote
- 4%
- 17 of the listings with pay
Which titles count: A listing counts when its title contains “site reliability”, SRE, DevOps, or an infrastructure, platform, production, or systems engineer. Managers, directors, and recruiters are left out. Matching is on the title only, not the job description, so listings with unusual titles may be missed.
All current Infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps Engineer jobs, with or without pay
The listings behind these figures
| Job | Employer | Location | Yearly range | Midpoint | Pay from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $500,000–$850,000 | $675K | Description |
| Platform Engineer, Application Security | METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) | Berkeley | $328,380–$578,583 | $453K | Feed |
| Network Engineer | OpenAI | San Francisco | $347,000–$510,000 | $429K | Feed |
| Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | $350,000–$500,000 | $425K | Description |
| Network Engineer, Supercomputing | Thinking Machines Lab | San Francisco | $350,000–$475,000 | $413K | Description |
| Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | $320,000–$485,000 | $403K | Description |
| Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $320,000–$485,000 | $403K | Description |
| Software Engineer, DevOps | OpenAI | San Francisco | $318,000–$485,000 | $402K | Feed |
| Client Platform Engineer | OpenAI | San Francisco | $347,000–$445,000 | $396K | Feed |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI | OpenAI | San Francisco | $266,000–$500,000 | $383K | Feed |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI | OpenAI | San Francisco | $295,000–$445,000 | $370K | Feed |
| DevOps / AgentOps Engineer, GTM Systems | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $320,000–$405,000 | $363K | Description |
| Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer | Anthropic | Remote | $320,000–$405,000 | $363K | Description |
| Infrastructure Engineer, Security | Thinking Machines Lab | San Francisco | $300,000–$400,000 | $350K | Description |
| IT Systems Engineer, M&A | Anthropic | Remote +2 | $325,000–$360,000 | $343K | Description |
| Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Lead | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA | $298,000–$368,000 | $333K | Description |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Post Training | Thinking Machines Lab | New York +1 | $300,000–$350,000 | $325K | Description |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Production | Thinking Machines Lab | New York +1 | $300,000–$350,000 | $325K | Description |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) | Perplexity | Palo Alto +1 | $220,000–$405,000 | $313K | Feed |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage | Lambda | San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +1 | $267,000–$356,000 | $312K | Feed |
| Deployed Infrastructure Engineer | Sierra | New York, NY +1 | $230,000–$390,000 | $310K | Feed |
| ML Infrastructure Engineer | xAI (SpaceXSI) | Palo Alto, CA | $180,000–$440,000 | $310K | Description |
| Network Engineer - ML Infrastructure (High-Speed Interconnects) | xAI (SpaceXSI) | Palo Alto, CA | $180,000–$440,000 | $310K | Description |
| Senior Network Engineer | Lambda | Bellevue Office +3 | $250,000–$370,000 | $310K | Feed |
| Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE) | Sierra | San Francisco, CA | $230,000–$390,000 | $310K | Feed |
| AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Operating Systems Engineer, Connectivity & Networking | Consumer Devices | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Operating Systems Engineer, Linux Kernel | Consumer Devices | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Operating Systems Engineer, On-Device Inference | Consumer Devices | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| IT Systems Engineer, Client Platform Engineer, macOS | Anthropic | Remote +2 | $285,000–$325,000 | $305K | Description |
| IT Systems Engineer, Mobile Client Platform Engineer | Anthropic | Remote +2 | $285,000–$325,000 | $305K | Description |
| Senior Staff Regulatory and Compliance Systems Engineer | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA +1 | $272,000–$336,000 | $304K | Description |
| Data Center Controls Network Engineer | OpenAI | San Francisco | $257,000–$327,000 | $292K | Feed |
| Rendering Systems Engineer - Simulation & Synthetic Data | World Labs | San Francisco | $250,000–$325,000 | $288K | Feed |
| Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$342,000 | $286K | Feed |
| Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Foundations | Lambda | Bellevue Office +2 | $230,000–$340,000 | $285K | Feed |
| Senior Staff AI-Native DevOps Engineer | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $201,300–$352,300 | $277K | Description |
| Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer - Data Access Team | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $201,300–$352,300 | $277K | Description |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - DevOps | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $201,300–$352,300 | $277K | Description |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN | Lambda | Bellevue Office +2 | $240,000–$312,000 | $276K | Feed |
| Staff Infrastructure Engineer | Replit | Foster City, CA | $220,000–$325,000 | $273K | Feed |
| Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer | Harvey | San Francisco | $238,000–$290,000 | $264K | Feed |
| Senior Staff Agentic Search Infrastructure Engineer - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View, California, United States | $190,900–$334,100 | $263K | Description |
| Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Kubernetes - Federal | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $190,900–$334,100 | $263K | Description |
| Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer | Together AI | San Francisco | $240,000–$280,000 | $260K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Depot & Offhail Automation | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA +1 | $230,000–$284,000 | $257K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Driving Behaviors | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA +1 | $230,000–$284,000 | $257K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Hardware Architecture | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA | $230,000–$284,000 | $257K | Description |
| Principal Systems Engineer, Air Vehicle Software | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $220,000–$292,000 | $256K | Description |
| Principal Systems Engineer, Air Vehicle Systems | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $220,000–$292,000 | $256K | Description |
| Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +2 | $220,000–$292,000 | $256K | Description |
| Principal Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $220,000–$290,000 | $255K | Description |
| Financial Systems Engineer | OpenAI | San Francisco | $240,000–$266,000 | $253K | Feed |
| Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer | Character.AI | Redwood City, CA | $150,000–$350,000 | $250K | Feed |
| Senior Staff Network Engineer, Deployment | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $225,000–$275,000 | $250K | Description |
| Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Federal | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $181,200–$317,100 | $249K | Description |
| Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Federal | ServiceNow | San Diego, California, United States | $181,200–$317,100 | $249K | Description |
| Sr. Staff Photonics Systems Engineer | Lightmatter | Boston, MA +1 | $230,000–$267,000 | $249K | Description |
| Cloud Platform Engineer | Baseten | Remote +5 | $165,000–$330,000 | $248K | Feed |
| Data Platform Engineer | TypeSafe AI | San Francisco Office | $210,000–$285,000 | $248K | Feed |
| Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes Specialist) | TypeSafe AI | San Francisco Office | $210,000–$285,000 | $248K | Feed |
| Site Reliability Engineer | Baseten | Remote +4 | $165,000–$330,000 | $248K | Feed |
| Platform Engineer, Model Shaping | Together AI | San Francisco | $200,000–$290,000 | $245K | Description |
| Principal Cloud Platform Engineer | SambaNova | Austin, Texas, United States +1 | $210,000–$280,000 | $245K | Description |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer | Intel | US, California, Folsom +3 | $170,500–$315,490 | $243K | Description |
| Principal Network Engineer (Starlink Ground Network) | SpaceX | Palo Alto, CA | $200,000–$285,000 | $243K | Description |
| Staff AI-Native DevOps Engineer | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $176,100–$308,200 | $242K | Description |
| Staff Voice AI Engineer – SRE/DevOps | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $176,100–$308,200 | $242K | Description |
| Frontend Platform Engineer | Harvey | San Francisco | $193,400–$290,000 | $242K | Feed |
| Senior Frontend Platform Engineer | Harvey | New York +1 | $193,400–$290,000 | $242K | Feed |
| Senior Systems Engineer - Enterprise AI Platforms | Lambda | San Francisco Office (Fremont St) +2 | $206,000–$275,000 | $241K | Feed |
| Principal Hardware Systems Engineer | d-Matrix | Santa Clara | $195,000–$285,000 | $240K | Feed |
| Finance Systems Engineer, Finance and Strategy | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $205,000–$270,000 | $238K | Description |
| Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Cline | San Francisco | $225,000–$250,000 | $238K | Description |
| Staff Hardware Systems Engineer | Crusoe | San Francisco, Ca - Us +1 | $215,000–$260,000 | $238K | Description |
| Staff Network Production Engineer, Deployment | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $215,000–$260,000 | $238K | Description |
| Staff Network Production Engineer, Operations | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $215,000–$260,000 | $238K | Description |
| Senior Staff Platform Engineer - Kubernetes - Federal | ServiceNow | San Diego, California, United States | $171,900–$300,800 | $236K | Description |
| Senior Network Engineer | Together AI | San Francisco | $190,000–$280,000 | $235K | Description |
| Staff Network Engineer, Storage | Crusoe | Sunnyvale, Ca - Us | $215,000–$255,000 | $235K | Description |
| IT Systems Engineer | Vercel | Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, Austin | $180,000–$288,000 | $234K | Description |
| Sr Staff Production Engineer- Public Sector | Databricks | Virginia | $195,400–$268,600 | $232K | Description |
| Staff Business Systems Engineer – Tax Technology | CoreWeave | Remote | $188,000–$275,000 | $232K | Description |
| Staff Business Systems Engineer, Data Center Systems | CoreWeave | Sunnyvale, CA | $188,000–$275,000 | $232K | Description |
| Staff Network Engineer | Agility Robotics | Remote | $181,000–$282,000 | $232K | Description |
| Staff Production Engineer, Compute | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $209,000–$253,000 | $231K | Description |
| Senior AI Systems Engineer — C++ / Applied AI | Adobe | Remote +5 | $159,200–$301,600 | $230K | Description |
| AI Infrastructure Systems Engineer | Together AI | San Francisco | $190,000–$270,000 | $230K | Description |
| Lead Site Reliability Engineer | Glean | Mountain View, CA | $200,000–$260,000 | $230K | Description |
| Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer | Cloudflare | Hybrid | $194,000–$266,000 | $230K | Description |
| Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer | Harvey | San Francisco | $200,000–$260,000 | $230K | Feed |
| Senior Systems Engineer, AI Gateway | Cloudflare | In-Office | $194,000–$266,000 | $230K | Description |
| DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Security | Scale AI | Washington, DC | $148,800–$311,000 | $230K | Description |
| Staff Software Engineer, DevOps - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View, California, United States | $166,500–$291,400 | $229K | Description |
| Power Infrastructure Engineer | SiFive | Austin, Texas, United States +3 | $205,740–$251,460 | $229K | Description |
| Sr. DSP Systems Engineer (Silicon Engineering) | SpaceX | Palo Alto, CA | $175,000–$280,000 | $228K | Description |
| Mission Systems Engineer, Antenna Lead | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $200,000–$253,000 | $227K | Description |
| Staff Electrical Integration Systems Engineer, Edge Compute and Communications, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $200,000–$253,000 | $227K | Description |
| Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Electronic Warfare, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $200,000–$253,000 | $227K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, C2 Networking, Edge Compute and Communications, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $200,000–$253,000 | $227K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Vehicle Security | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA | $198,000–$248,000 | $223K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) | SpaceX | Palo Alto, CA | $165,000–$280,000 | $223K | Description |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Block | New York, NY, United States of America | $160,700–$283,600 | $222K | Description |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Block | Bay Area, CA, United States of America | $160,700–$283,600 | $222K | Description |
| AI Systems Engineer | Anduril Industries | Santa Ana, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Applied LLM Systems Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Lead Systems Engineer, Mission Autonomy, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +2 | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Senior Hybrid Network Engineer | Anduril Industries | Reston, Virginia, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Senior Radar DSP Systems Engineer, EW | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff CAD Platform Engineer (NX / Teamcenter) | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Fuel Systems Engineer, Omen | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Electronic Assemblies, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Site Reliability Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer - Payload Lead | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Advanced Effects, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Air Vehicle Software | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Air Vehicle Systems | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, C2 Integration, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Ashville, Ohio, United States +1 | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, EW | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Enterprise Mesh (Active Clearance) | Anduril Industries | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Maritime | Anduril Industries | Quincy, Massachusetts, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Missiles | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Strategic Defense | Anduril Industries | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Senior Cloud Engineer | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Livermore, CA, United States | $175,530–$267,060 | $221K | Description |
| Principal Optical Network Engineer (Starlink Ground Network) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $180,000–$260,000 | $220K | Description |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (Foundations) | Anyscale | San Francisco | $200,000–$240,000 | $220K | Feed |
| Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure | d-Matrix | Santa Clara | $175,000–$265,000 | $220K | Feed |
| Staff HiL SW Infrastructure Engineer | Agility Robotics | Hybrid- Fremont, CA | $191,000–$249,000 | $220K | Description |
| Staff Systems Engineer, Functional Safety | Agility Robotics | Hybrid- Fremont, CA | $191,000–$249,000 | $220K | Description |
| Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Storage Platform | Cloudflare | In-Office | $185,000–$254,000 | $220K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Basin Pipelines | Cloudflare | In-Office | $185,000–$254,000 | $220K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Basin Platform | Cloudflare | In-Office | $185,000–$254,000 | $220K | Description |
| Automotive HVAC Systems Engineer | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA +1 | $196,000–$242,000 | $219K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Vehicle Body Control Systems | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA | $196,000–$242,000 | $219K | Description |
| Senior (DevOps) Machine Learning Engineer - Federal | ServiceNow | Santa Clara, California, United States | $161,300–$274,200 | $218K | Description |
| Sr. Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$270,000 | $218K | Description |
| Sr. Optical Network Engineer (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$270,000 | $218K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$270,000 | $218K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starshield) | SpaceX | Washington, DC | $165,000–$270,000 | $218K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starshield) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$270,000 | $218K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starshield) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$270,000 | $218K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$270,000 | $218K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer – Windows Active Directory | Intel | US, Arizona, Phoenix +1 | $149,600–$284,580 | $217K | Description |
| Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Cache | Cloudflare | Hybrid | $168,000–$266,000 | $217K | Description |
| Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise Operations | Perplexity | Austin +2 | $200,000–$230,000 | $215K | Feed |
| Sr. DSP Systems Engineer (Silicon Engineering) | SpaceX | Irvine, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. HPC Systems Engineer (High Performance Computing) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Network Engineer (Starshield) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Network Engineer (Starshield) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Palo Alto, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Washington, DC | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Palo Alto, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Washington, DC | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$265,000 | $215K | Description |
| IT Systems Engineer: Cloud Infrastructure | CoreWeave | Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA / Bellevue, WA | $182,000–$242,000 | $212K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Enterprise AI Platforms | CoreWeave | Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA | $182,000–$242,000 | $212K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Legal Systems | CoreWeave | Dallas, TX / Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA / Bellevue, WA | $182,000–$242,000 | $212K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudflare Tunnel | Cloudflare | Hybrid | $168,000–$254,000 | $211K | Description |
| Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, Design Systems | LangChain | Remote +2 | $180,000–$240,000 | $210K | Description |
| Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Federal | ServiceNow | San Diego, California, United States | $149,800–$262,200 | $206K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer | Cloudflare | Hybrid | $156,000–$254,000 | $205K | Description |
| Senior Data Platform Engineer - Weights & Biases | Weights & Biases | Remote | $165,000–$242,000 | $204K | Description |
| Senior Network Engineer | Cloudflare | Hybrid | $168,000–$237,000 | $203K | Description |
| Senior Network Engineer | Lightning AI | Remote | $180,000–$225,000 | $203K | Description |
| Senior Staff Mechanical Systems Engineer - Spark | Crusoe | Denver, Co - Us | $190,000–$215,000 | $203K | Description |
| Firmware/ Embedded Systems Engineer | Skild AI | San Mateo | $100,000–$300,000 | $200K | Description |
| Infrastructure Engineer (GPU & Compute) | Lightning AI | Remote +4 | $180,000–$220,000 | $200K | Description |
| Infrastructure Engineer (Storage) | Lightning AI | Remote +4 | $180,000–$220,000 | $200K | Description |
| Network Engineer | xAI (SpaceXSI) | Palo Alto, CA | $150,000–$250,000 | $200K | Description |
| Senior Electrical Integration Systems Engineer, Edge Compute and Communications, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $180,000–$220,000 | $200K | Description |
| Senior Robot Infrastructure Engineer | Skild AI | San Francisco | $100,000–$300,000 | $200K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, C2 Networking, Edge Compute and Communications, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $180,000–$220,000 | $200K | Description |
| Infrastructure engineer | Writer | New York City, NY +2 | $155,000–$240,000 | $198K | Feed |
| Sr. Hardware / Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$230,000 | $198K | Description |
| Sr. Kubernetes Platform Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$230,000 | $198K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $165,000–$230,000 | $198K | Description |
| Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$230,000 | $198K | Description |
| Sr. Software Engineer, DevOps (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$230,000 | $198K | Description |
| Sr. Software Infrastructure Engineer (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $165,000–$230,000 | $198K | Description |
| IT Infrastructure Engineer | Sierra | San Francisco, CA | $180,000–$210,000 | $195K | Feed |
| IT Systems Engineer | xAI (SpaceXSI) | Palo Alto, CA | $162,000–$226,000 | $194K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Space | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$222,000 | $194K | Description |
| Senior Agentic Search Infrastructure Engineer - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View, California, United States | $143,200–$243,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Software Engineer, DevOps - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View, California, United States | $143,200–$243,000 | $193K | Description |
| AD&S, Air Vehicle Software Systems Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Air Vehicle Systems Engineer, Hardware Verification, Integration & Validation | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Classified Platform Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Infrastructure Engineer | Anduril Industries | Reston, Virginia, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes | Anduril Industries | Reston, Virginia, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Mission Software Infrastructure Engineer, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +2 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Physical Infrastructure | Anduril Industries | Seattle, Washington, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Physical Infrastructure | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Air Vehicle Systems Engineer, Hardware Verification, Integration & Validation | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Android Platform Engineer | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA +1 | $170,000–$216,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Energy Systems Engineer, Maritime | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Fuel Systems Engineer, Air Vehicles | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Integrated Power Systems Engineer/Technician | Anduril Industries | Santa Ana, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Mission Systems Engineer, EO/IR Seekers | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Mission Systems Engineer, Electronic Assemblies, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Mission Systems Engineer, Electronic Warfare, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Open Architecture Systems Engineer, Ground Systems | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Open Architecture Systems Engineer, Mission Systems | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Open Architecture Systems Engineer, UCI Command & Control | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Production Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior RF Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer, TS Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer (Integration & Test), Intelligence Systems | Anduril Industries | Reston, Virginia, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer (Warfighter Systems) | Anduril Industries | Bellevue, Washington, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer - Mission Systems | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer - Payload Module Lead | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Advanced Effects, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Air Vehicle Software | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Air Vehicle Systems | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, C2 Integration, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Ashville, Ohio, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, EW | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Intelligence Systems | Anduril Industries | Reston, Virginia, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Maritime | Anduril Industries | Quincy, Massachusetts, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Maritime | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Missiles | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Mission Autonomy, Active Clearance | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Payload Module Lead | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Space Imaging | Anduril Industries | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Site Reliability Engineer, Space | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Staff CAD Platform Engineer (NX / Teamcenter) | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Staff Power Systems Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Systems Engineer | Anduril Industries | Irvine, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Systems Engineer, Air Defense | Anduril Industries | Irvine, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Tactical Network Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance) | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Vehicle Battery Systems Engineer | Anduril Industries | Santa Ana, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Optical Network Engineer II | CoreWeave | Livingston, NJ | $165,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Staff Production Engineer- Public Sector | Databricks | Virginia | $162,000–$222,750 | $192K | Description |
| Senior Network Engineer - InfiniBand / UFM | Lightning AI | Remote +3 | $170,000–$210,000 | $190K | Description |
| Senior Hardware Systems Engineer | Crusoe | Sunnyvale, Ca - Us | $170,000–$205,000 | $188K | Description |
| Senior Network Production Engineer, Deployment | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $170,000–$205,000 | $188K | Description |
| Senior Production Engineer, Managed AI | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $170,000–$205,000 | $188K | Description |
| Senior Production Engineer, Managed Cloud | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $170,000–$205,000 | $188K | Description |
| Senior Production Engineer, SDN | Crusoe | Bellevue, Wa - Us +2 | $170,000–$205,000 | $188K | Description |
| Senior Systems Engineer, AI Containerized Systems | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$208,000 | $187K | Description |
| IT DevOps Engineer | Fireworks AI | San Mateo | $170,000–$200,000 | $185K | Feed |
| Senior IT Systems Engineer | xAI (SpaceXSI) | Palo Alto, CA | $148,000–$222,000 | $185K | Description |
| Sr. IT Network Engineer | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $155,000–$215,000 | $185K | Description |
| Sr. IT Network Engineer (Top Secret Clearance) | SpaceX | Washington, DC | $155,000–$215,000 | $185K | Description |
| Sr. IT Network Engineer (Top Secret Clearance) | SpaceX | Hawthorne, CA | $155,000–$215,000 | $185K | Description |
Showing the 250 highest midpoints of 403. Every listing with pay in the Jobs directory (the directory’s “shows pay” also includes hourly and other pay).
How these figures are computed
Method. Only pay employers disclose: the yearly U.S.-dollar base range in the employer’s job feed, or, when the feed gives none, a range stated in the employer’s own job description (labelled “description”). Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range (a listing with several location tiers spans its lowest to its highest figure). The median and the middle range (25th to 75th percentile) are of those midpoints. Listings are the current ones in the Jobs directory’s default view: a U.S. location, or no location that can be read.
Left out. Hourly, monthly, open-ended (“up to”), and non-dollar pay; ranges the employer labels as on-target earnings (base plus commission), bonus, equity, or total compensation; ranges with a lower end under $10,000 or an upper end over $2,000,000 a year (not plausible as a yearly base). Nothing is converted, annualized, or estimated. A group is shown only with at least 10 listings with pay.
Caveats. Posted ranges are what employers advertise, not what anyone is paid; many employers (and many states) post wide ranges, and listings without pay are not represented. Sales roles often state on-target earnings (base plus commission) without labelling them, so their figures may include commission. Role groups come from title rules, not job descriptions. There is no trend yet: USASI keeps no history of listings or pay, so each figure is for the listings current when this page was built.
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