Software Engineering Engineer Salary

Based on 22 Software Engineering listings with published compensation (117 total jobs)

$256k
Average
$100k
Low Posted
22
With Salary
$965k
High Posted
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Software Engineering 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 $965k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Software Engineering features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 22 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 117 total open Software Engineering 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

mid
45 jobs
$167k avg
lead
27 jobs
$293k avg
senior
25 jobs
$223k avg
principal
12 jobs
$481k avg
junior
8 jobs

Top Paying Companies for Software Engineering

Software Engineering Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
41 jobs
$215k avg
Bristol, UK
9 jobs
New York, NY
7 jobs
$200k avg
Palo Alto, CA
6 jobs
$256k avg
Austin, TX
6 jobs
$286k avg
Tokyo, Japan
5 jobs
London, UK
5 jobs
Bangalore, India
5 jobs
San Jose, CA
3 jobs
$181k avg
Seattle, WA
3 jobs
$339k avg

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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