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Engineering salaries

628 Engineering listings with published compensation.

Overall

P10
$150,000
P25
$195,500
Median
$216,000
P75
$261,000
P90
$319,023

By seniority

Level P25 Median P75 N
Intern $56,575 $114,000 $114,400 3
Entry $139,000 $142,500 $166,035 10
Mid $158,500 $189,181 $234,900 83
Senior $195,500 $214,508 $236,700 289
Staff $214,700 $237,262 $267,000 127
Principal $258,900 $308,725 $320,850 10
Lead $176,500 $297,900 $297,900 2
Manager $214,700 $261,000 $271,425 98
Director $195,640 $313,500 $313,500 6

Top-paying Engineering roles

Anthropic ·
Performance Engineer, GPU
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $280K–$850K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
GPU Performance Engineer at Anthropic building foundational systems for Claude inference and training. Focus on GPU kernel optimization, distributed systems, and performance engineering at scale.
CUDATritonCUTLASSFlash AttentionPyTorchJAX
83
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Performance Engineer
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $280K–$850K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
Performance Engineer at Anthropic optimizing throughput and robustness of large-scale distributed ML systems. Focus on GPU programming, ML framework internals, and systems-level performance at supercomputing scale.
GPU programmingCUDAPyTorchTransformersKubernetesdistributed systems
81
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Research Engineer, Discovery
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $350K–$850K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
Research Engineer at Anthropic building infrastructure for AI scientist systems. Focus on large-scale distributed systems, training/evaluation pipelines, and containerization to support scientific AGI development.
PyTorchJAXDockerKubernetesAWSGCP
81
AI-core
Anthropic ·
TPU Kernel Engineer
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $280K–$850K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
TPU Kernel Engineer at Anthropic optimizing ML systems for training and inference. Focus on kernel design, performance debugging, and low-level system optimization across research and production workloads.
TPUGPUCUDAML frameworksTransformers
81
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $500K–$850K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Manager
Engineering Manager for GPU/ML accelerator systems at Anthropic. Lead teams optimizing inference and training performance, removing bottlenecks, and scaling compute infrastructure. Requires 1+ years management experience and ML/AI background.
GPUML frameworkstransformersdistributed systems
77
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Engineering Manager, Inference
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $425K–$560K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Manager
Engineering Manager, Inference at Anthropic leading performance and scaling teams. Responsible for improving model inference efficiency, managing team execution, and removing technical bottlenecks in a fast-paced environment.
GPUAccelerator programmingML framework internalstransformersdistributed systems
79
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Staff Software Engineer, Inference
📍 London, GB 🌐 Remote 💰 $412K–$495K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Staff
Staff Software Engineer at Anthropic building inference infrastructure to serve Claude at scale. Focus on distributed systems, request routing, fleet orchestration, and performance optimization across multiple AI accelerators and cloud platforms.
PythonRustKubernetesAWSGCP
81
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering
📍 London, GB 🌐 Remote 💰 $412K–$495K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Staff
Staff Software Engineer at Anthropic building AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE). Focus on monitoring, observability, and incident response for Claude's serving infrastructure across multiple regions and cloud providers.
Kubernetesdistributed systemscloud infrastructureobservability toolsRDMAInfiniBand
72
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Staff+ Software Engineer, Observability
📍 London, GB 🌐 Remote 💰 $412K–$495K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Staff
Staff+ Software Engineer at Anthropic building observability infrastructure for monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting across GPU/TPU clusters. Focus on high-throughput pipelines, columnar storage, and AI-assisted diagnostics.
PythonRustGoPrometheusGrafanaClickHouse
61
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Model Quality Software Engineer, Claude Code
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K 🛠 AI tools welcome · Staff
Staff Software Engineer at Anthropic building evaluation and research infrastructure for Claude Code. Focus on architecting eval frameworks, scaling research systems, and mentoring engineers at the intersection of ML and engineering.
PythonTypeScript
83
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Inference
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $300K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
Staff/Senior Software Engineer at Anthropic building inference infrastructure for Claude. Responsible for distributed systems serving models to millions of users, including request routing, fleet orchestration, and compute optimization across multiple cloud platforms and AI accelerators.
PythonRustKubernetesAWSGCPAzure
81
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Engineering Manager, Cloud Inference AWS
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $405K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Manager
Engineering Manager leading Anthropic's Cloud Inference team on AWS. Responsible for scaling and optimizing Claude API serving, infrastructure, and operations across AWS platforms. Reports to senior leadership and manages high-scale LLM serving infrastructure.
AWSGPUsTPUsTrainiumNCCL
79
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Senior Staff Software Engineer, API
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K · Staff
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Anthropic building the Claude API platform. Drives technical strategy across API Core, Capabilities, Knowledge, Distributability, and Agents teams. Partners with Research, Inference, and Infrastructure to scale Claude's distribution to developers and enterprises.
PythonTypeScriptFastAPIReactGCPKubernetes
79
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Software Engineer, Inference Deployment
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $320K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
Software Engineer on Anthropic's Launch Engineering team building deployment infrastructure for Claude inference across GPU, TPU, and Trainium fleets. Focus on orchestration, scheduling, observability, and reducing cycle time from code merge to production.
KubernetesPythonRustGPUTPUTrainium
77
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Inference
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $300K–$485K · Senior
Staff/Senior Software Engineer at Anthropic building cloud inference infrastructure for Claude across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Focus on multi-cloud serving, capacity management, cost optimization, and CI/CD automation at massive scale.
PythonRustKubernetesAWSGCPAzure
75
AI-core
Anthropic ·
Staff / Senior Software Engineer, AI Reliability
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $325K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
Staff/Senior Software Engineer at Anthropic building AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE). Focus on monitoring, observability, and incident response for Claude's serving infrastructure across multiple regions and cloud providers.
Kubernetesdistributed systemsobservabilityRDMAInfiniBandGPUs
73
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Platform Hardware Security
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Senior
Platform Hardware Security Engineer at Anthropic designing and implementing security architectures for bare-metal infrastructure. Focus on firmware, bootloaders, operating systems, and attestation systems to ensure infrastructure integrity for AI training.
CRustAssemblyTPMUEFIBIOS
68
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Staff+ Software Engineer, Systems
📍 US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Staff
Staff+ Systems Engineer at Anthropic building compute infrastructure for frontier AI research. Owns cluster uptime, resilience, and observability at massive scale to support model training and safe deployment to millions of users.
KubernetesPythonRustGoAWSGCP
68
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Engineering Manager, Safeguards Data Infrastructure
📍 London, GB 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K · Manager
Engineering Manager at Anthropic leading the Safeguards Data Infrastructure team. Responsible for building privacy-preserving data infrastructure, managing multi-cloud portability, and ensuring compliance with regulations like HIPAA as the company scales.
PythonKubernetesAWSGCPPostgreSQL
66
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor 🛠 AI tools welcome · Staff
Staff+ Software Engineer at Anthropic building developer productivity infrastructure. Owns build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that integrate Claude into engineering workflows at scale.
PythonRustGoBazelBuildkiteJenkins
63
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Staff+ Software Engineer, Observability
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K 🛠 AI tools welcome · Staff
Staff+ Software Engineer at Anthropic building observability infrastructure for monitoring and telemetry across GPU/TPU clusters. Focus on high-throughput ingest pipelines, columnar storage, distributed tracing, and AI-assisted diagnostics.
PythonRustGoPrometheusGrafanaClickHouse
63
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $320K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Staff
Staff+ Software Engineer building database infrastructure at Anthropic. Architect and scale database systems supporting millions of Claude users and AI research workloads across GCP, AWS, and hybrid deployments.
PostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBRedisTemporalGCP
61
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Staff+ Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K · Staff
Staff+ software engineer at Anthropic building data infrastructure systems. Focus on data governance, financial pipelines, cloud storage reliability, and analytics platforms at scale.
BigQueryBigTableAirflowdbtSparkTerraform
61
AI-fluent
Anthropic ·
Engineering Manager, Product Monetization (Billing Platform)
📍 San Francisco, US 🌐 Remote 💰 $405K–$485K 🛂 Visa sponsor · Manager
Engineering Manager leading Anthropic's Billing Platform team. Owns revenue-enablement infrastructure, payment systems, and monetization platform that product teams integrate with to charge customers globally.
billing systemspayment platformssubscription infrastructure
57
AI-fluent
Discord ·
Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $400K–$450K · Principal
Principal Software Engineer at Discord leading large-scale infrastructure initiatives. Architect systems serving 200M+ users with strict uptime requirements, mentor senior engineers, and shape multi-year technical roadmap for distributed systems.
RustElixirPythonScyllaDBCassandraPostgreSQL
53
AI-fluent