Security Engineer Salary

Based on 184 Security listings with published compensation (476 total jobs)

$241k
Average
$100k
Low Posted
184
With Salary
$690k
High Posted
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Security engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $100k to $690k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Security features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 184 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 476 total open Security roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

lead
179 jobs
$274k avg
senior
153 jobs
$222k avg
mid
91 jobs
$160k avg
principal
48 jobs
$269k avg
junior
5 jobs
$181k avg

Top Paying Companies for Security

Security Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
112 jobs
$303k avg
Remote (US)
65 jobs
$208k avg
London, UK
32 jobs
New York, NY
30 jobs
$254k avg
United States
22 jobs
$252k avg
Bangalore, India
20 jobs
Remote
15 jobs
$194k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
14 jobs
$219k avg
Tel Aviv, Israel
11 jobs
Paris, France
9 jobs

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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