OpenAI salaries

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California.

250 posted ranges · median $356k · H-1B median $325k (140 filings)

Job board

By title

Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

Software Engineer$356kGeneral software engineering: backend, frontend, infrastructure and systems roles without a more specific title.Data Scientist$396kUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.H-1B $290k Research Engineer$440kWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.Forward Deployed Engineer$243kAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.H-1B $220k Full Stack Engineer$347kWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.Engineering Manager$423kManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.Applied AI Engineer$257kTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.Security Engineer$356kFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.Machine Learning Engineer$453kTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.Platform Engineer$386kBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.Data Engineer$366kBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.H-1B $280k AI Engineer$356kA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.Design Engineer$339kHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.Agent Engineer$319kBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.Research Scientist$271kDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.Solutions Engineer$247kThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.H-1B $220k Founding Engineer$396kOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.MLOps Engineer$383kRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.Product Engineer$350kA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.

Title	Posted	H-1B
Software EngineerGeneral software engineering: backend, frontend, infrastructure and systems roles without a more specific title.	$356k$266k to $445k	None
Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.	$396k$346k to $445k	Few2 filings
Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.	$440k$380k to $500k	None
Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.	$243k$185k to $300k	$220k4 filings
Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.	$347k$266k to $395k	None
Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.	$423k$401k to $445k	None
Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.	$257k$211k to $279k	None
Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.	$356k$266k to $445k	None
Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.	$453k$381k to $498k	None
Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.	$386k$287k to $445k	None
Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.	$366k$295k to $385k	$280k4 filings
AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.	$356k$266k to $445k	None
Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.	$272k to $406k2 postings	None
Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.	$243k to $395k2 postings	None
Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.	$210k to $333k2 postings	None
Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.	$234k to $260k2 postings	$220k5 filings
Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.	$347k to $445kone posting	None
MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.	$266k to $500kone posting	None
Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.	$255k to $445kone posting	None

Posted ranges

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$287k to $485k

EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure Engineer

Platform Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Network Infrastructure Engineer, Global Network Infra (WAN)

Platform Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$385k to $445k

Software Engineer, Infranomics

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Data Scientist, Cloud Distribution & Growth

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Staff$266k to $445k

Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $405k

Software Engineer, IP Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$325k to $405k

Engineering Manager, API Multicloud

Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $385k

Full Stack Software Engineer, Consumer Verticals

Full Stack Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $385k

Data Scientist, Analytics Enablement

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$257k to $327k

Design Engineer, Power Generation

Design Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Nov 4, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $850k

Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $850k

Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Principal$459k to $536k

Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and Learning

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Principal$459k to $536k

Principal Software Engineer, Productivity

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Full Stack Software Engineer, Monetization Platform

Full Stack Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Machine Learning Data Scientist - Consumer Forecasting

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Applied Data Scientist, Personalization & Machine Learning

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Founding Software Engineer, Physical Engineering

Founding Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $385k

Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access)

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $325k

Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$185k to $300k

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF

Forward Deployed Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$187k to $266k

IT Systems Engineer

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 28, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $850k

Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, Search

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$401k to $510k

Product Data Scientist - Youth, Families and Learning

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Software Engineer, TPU Compilers

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$405k to $445k

Engineering Manager, Preparedness

Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Client Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$347k to $445k

Enterprise Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management

Security Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $385k

Software Engineer, Full Stack - Dots

Software Engineer · New York City

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $385k

Software Engineer, Mobile Web - Dots

Software Engineer · New York City

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$293k to $385k

Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $385k

Software Engineer, Backend - Dots

Software Engineer · New York City

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$272k to $302k

Customer Service Systems Engineer, Government

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Senior$207k to $294k

Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Platform

Forward Deployed Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$240k to $266k

Financial Systems Engineer

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 21, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$293k to $515k

Data Scientist, FinEng

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 14, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$381k to $510k

Machine Learning Engineer, Implicit Signals

Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 14, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, API Agents

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 14, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices

Software Engineer · Seattle area

seen Oct 14, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $385k

Frontend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Space

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 14, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $510k

Data Scientist, B2B Strategy & Intelligence

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$318k to $485k

Software Engineer, CI/CD & ML Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $450k

Software Engineer, Life Sciences

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Software Engineer, Product Velocity

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Software Engineer, Implicit Signals

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$295k to $445k

Data Engineer, Hardware & Consumer Devices

Data Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Software Engineer, Shop/Feed Ads

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $385k

Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $385k

Data Engineer, Core Experimentation

Data Engineer · Seattle area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $385k

Software Engineer, OpenAI Presence

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $385k

Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$185k to $385k

Android Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Senior$230k to $294k

Deployment Lead, FDE- NYC

Forward Deployed Engineer · New York City

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Senior$230k to $294k

Deployment Lead, FDE - SF

Forward Deployed Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$251k to $278k

Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives

Applied AI Engineer · New York City

seen Oct 7, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 25, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$381k to $555k

Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/ML

Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$500k to $555k

Engineering Manager, MLE

Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$510k to $536k

Engineering Manager, Core Experimentation

Engineering Manager · Seattle area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$295k to $536k

Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$459k to $536k

Data Engineering Manager, Growth & Revenue

Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$441k to $515k

Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$293k to $515k

Data Scientist, Ads Demand

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$293k to $515k

Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth

Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$263k to $515k

Data Scientist, Cybersecurity

Data Scientist · Remote (US)

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Principal$401k to $510k

Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

Security Engineer · Remote (US)

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Principal$401k to $510k

Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security

Software Engineer · Remote (US)

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Software Engineer, Collective Communication

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer, Codex

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Software Engineer, Platform Systems

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $500k

AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI

MLOps Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$210k to $490k

Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$230k to $490k

Software Engineer, Fleet Management

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $490k

Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $490k

Software Engineer, Compute Foundations Systems

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $490k

Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $490k

Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling

Full Stack Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $490k

Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$230k to $490k

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$185k to $490k

Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$185k to $490k

Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning

Full Stack Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$210k to $490k

Software Engineer, Delivery / CD

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$185k to $490k

Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$255k to $490k

Software Engineer, Compute Foundations

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$185k to $490k

Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$287k to $485k

RTL Design Engineer - Interconnect & Network Datapath

Design Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$437k to $485k

Machine Learning Engineer, Core Experimentation

Machine Learning Engineer · Seattle area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $468k

Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design

AI Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$380k to $460k

Control Systems Software Engineer, Robotics

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$310k to $460k

Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $455k

Software Engineer, Foundations Search

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$250k to $445k

Research Engineer

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$250k to $445k

Research Scientist

Research Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Observability

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Financial Engineering

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Security Engineer, Application Security

Security Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$295k to $445k

Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$250k to $445k

Software Engineer, Hardware Health

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Security Engineer, Application Security

Security Engineer · Seattle area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Security Engineer, Application Security

Security Engineer · New York City

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data)

Software Engineer · Seattle area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$347k to $445k

Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$295k to $445k

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning

Research Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Manager$401k to $445k

Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API)

Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Security Engineer, Agent Security

Security Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Software Engineer, Database Systems

Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Not stated$266k to $445k

Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

Security Engineer · Remote (US)

seen Sep 24, 2026Posting ↗

Posting	Level	City	Range	First seen
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Nov 4, 2026
EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Platform EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$287kto $485k	Nov 4, 2026
Network Infrastructure Engineer, Global Network Infra (WAN) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Platform EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Nov 4, 2026
Software Engineer, Infranomics (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$385kto $445k	Nov 4, 2026
Software Engineer, Traffic Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Nov 4, 2026
Data Scientist, Cloud Distribution & Growth (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Nov 4, 2026
Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerStaffSan Francisco Bay Area	Staff	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Nov 4, 2026
Software Engineer, IP Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $405k	Nov 4, 2026
Engineering Manager, API Multicloud (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$325kto $405k	Nov 4, 2026
Full Stack Software Engineer, Consumer Verticals (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $385k	Nov 4, 2026
Data Scientist, Analytics Enablement (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $385k	Nov 4, 2026
Design Engineer, Power Generation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Design EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$257kto $327k	Nov 4, 2026
Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $850k	Oct 28, 2026
Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $850k	Oct 28, 2026
Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerPrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area	Principal	San Francisco Bay Area	$459kto $536k	Oct 28, 2026
Principal Software Engineer, Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerPrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area	Principal	San Francisco Bay Area	$459kto $536k	Oct 28, 2026
Full Stack Software Engineer, Monetization Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Oct 28, 2026
Machine Learning Data Scientist - Consumer Forecasting (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 28, 2026
Applied Data Scientist, Personalization & Machine Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 28, 2026
Founding Software Engineer, Physical Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Founding EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 28, 2026
Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (Lawful Access) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $385k	Oct 28, 2026
Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $325k	Oct 28, 2026
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Infra - SF (the posting, opens in a new tab)Forward Deployed EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$185kto $300k	Oct 28, 2026
IT Systems Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$187kto $266k	Oct 28, 2026
Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $850k	Oct 21, 2026
Product Data Scientist - Youth, Families and Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$401kto $510k	Oct 21, 2026
Software Engineer, TPU Compilers (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Oct 21, 2026
Engineering Manager, Preparedness (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$405kto $445k	Oct 21, 2026
Client Platform Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Platform EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 21, 2026
Enterprise Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 21, 2026
Software Engineer, Full Stack - Dots (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedNew York City	Not stated	New York City	$347kto $385k	Oct 21, 2026
Software Engineer, Mobile Web - Dots (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedNew York City	Not stated	New York City	$347kto $385k	Oct 21, 2026
Engineering Manager, Identity Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$293kto $385k	Oct 21, 2026
Software Engineer, Backend - Dots (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedNew York City	Not stated	New York City	$347kto $385k	Oct 21, 2026
Customer Service Systems Engineer, Government (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$272kto $302k	Oct 21, 2026
Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Forward Deployed EngineerSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area	Senior	San Francisco Bay Area	$207kto $294k	Oct 21, 2026
Financial Systems Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$240kto $266k	Oct 21, 2026
Data Scientist, FinEng (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$293kto $515k	Oct 14, 2026
Machine Learning Engineer, Implicit Signals (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$381kto $510k	Oct 14, 2026
Software Engineer, API Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Oct 14, 2026
Software Engineer, HSM Infrastructure Security, Consumer Devices (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSeattle area	Not stated	Seattle area	$347kto $445k	Oct 14, 2026
Frontend Software Engineer, ChatGPT Space (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $385k	Oct 14, 2026
Data Scientist, B2B Strategy & Intelligence (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $510k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, CI/CD & ML Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$318kto $485k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, Life Sciences (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $450k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, Product Velocity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, Implicit Signals (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 7, 2026
Data Engineer, Hardware & Consumer Devices (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$295kto $445k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, Shop/Feed Ads (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Oct 7, 2026
Frontend Software Engineer, Codex App (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $385k	Oct 7, 2026
Data Engineer, Core Experimentation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data EngineerNot statedSeattle area	Not stated	Seattle area	$347kto $385k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, OpenAI Presence (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $385k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, Enterprise Controls (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $385k	Oct 7, 2026
Android Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$185kto $385k	Oct 7, 2026
Deployment Lead, FDE- NYC (the posting, opens in a new tab)Forward Deployed EngineerSeniorNew York City	Senior	New York City	$230kto $294k	Oct 7, 2026
Deployment Lead, FDE - SF (the posting, opens in a new tab)Forward Deployed EngineerSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area	Senior	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $294k	Oct 7, 2026
Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives (the posting, opens in a new tab)Applied AI EngineerNot statedNew York City	Not stated	New York City	$251kto $278k	Oct 7, 2026
Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 25, 2026
Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/ML (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$381kto $555k	Sep 24, 2026
Engineering Manager, MLE (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$500kto $555k	Sep 24, 2026
Engineering Manager, Core Experimentation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSeattle area	Manager	Seattle area	$510kto $536k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$295kto $536k	Sep 24, 2026
Data Engineering Manager, Growth & Revenue (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$459kto $536k	Sep 24, 2026
Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$441kto $515k	Sep 24, 2026
Data Scientist, Ads Demand (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$293kto $515k	Sep 24, 2026
Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$293kto $515k	Sep 24, 2026
Data Scientist, Cybersecurity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data ScientistNot statedRemote (US)	Not stated	Remote (US)	$263kto $515k	Sep 24, 2026
Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerPrincipalRemote (US)	Principal	Remote (US)	$401kto $510k	Sep 24, 2026
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerPrincipalRemote (US)	Principal	Remote (US)	$401kto $510k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Collective Communication (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer, Codex (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Platform Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI (the posting, opens in a new tab)MLOps EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $500k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$210kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Fleet Management (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Compute Foundations Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$230kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$185kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)Full Stack EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$185kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Delivery / CD (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$210kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$185kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Compute Foundations (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$255kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$185kto $490k	Sep 24, 2026
RTL Design Engineer - Interconnect & Network Datapath (the posting, opens in a new tab)Design EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$287kto $485k	Sep 24, 2026
Machine Learning Engineer, Core Experimentation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSeattle area	Not stated	Seattle area	$437kto $485k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design (the posting, opens in a new tab)AI EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $468k	Sep 24, 2026
Control Systems Software Engineer, Robotics (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$380kto $460k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$310kto $460k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Foundations Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $455k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$250kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Scaled Abuse (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Scientist (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research ScientistNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$250kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Observability (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Financial Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Security Engineer, Application Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Integrity Foundations (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Youth Well-Being (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$295kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Hardware Health (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$250kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Security Engineer, Application Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSeattle area	Not stated	Seattle area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Security Engineer, Application Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedNew York City	Not stated	New York City	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Habitat (Online Data) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSeattle area	Not stated	Seattle area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$347kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning (the posting, opens in a new tab)Research EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$295kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Engineering Manager, Multimodal (API) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Engineering ManagerManagerSan Francisco Bay Area	Manager	San Francisco Bay Area	$401kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Security Engineer, Agent Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Software Engineer, Database Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area	Not stated	San Francisco Bay Area	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026
Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedRemote (US)	Not stated	Remote (US)	$266kto $445k	Sep 24, 2026

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About

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models. Source

Job board: Ashby (jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai). Robots check on 2026-11-04: robots.txt allows careers and jobs paths (1 other paths disallowed).

By level

Level	Posted	H-1B
Senior3 posted	$262k$230k to $294k	None

Staff5 posted	$356k$266k to $445k	$220k11 filings

Principal4 posted	$477k$430k to $523k	None

Manager19 posted	$423k$400k to $445k	None

Not stated219 posted	$356k$266k to $445k	$325k129 filings

By city

San Francisco Bay Area$356k213 open jobs with posted pay here.Seattle area$366k15 open jobs with posted pay here.New York City$344k11 open jobs with posted pay here.Remote (US)$372k6 open jobs with posted pay here.Washington DC area$257k5 open jobs with posted pay here.

City	Range $200k$250k$300k$350k$400k$450k$500k	Posted
San Francisco Bay Area213 open jobs with posted pay here.		$356k$266k to $445k
Seattle area15 open jobs with posted pay here.		$366k$347k to $445k
New York City11 open jobs with posted pay here.		$344k$266k to $385k
Remote (US)6 open jobs with posted pay here.		$372k$266k to $478k
Washington DC area5 open jobs with posted pay here.		$257k$211k to $302k

H-1B wages by title

Member of Technical Staff$325kA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.Solutions Engineer$220kThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.Forward Deployed Engineer$220kAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.Data Engineer$280kBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.Data Scientist$290kUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.Analytics Engineer$280kModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.

Title	H-1B
Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.	$325k123 filings
Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.	$220k5 filings
Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.	$220k4 filings
Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.	$280k4 filings
Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.	Few2 filings
Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.	Few2 filings

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarter	Filings	Median
FY2025 Q1	13	$343k
FY2025 Q2	14	$343k
FY2025 Q3	32	$369k
FY2025 Q4	15	$380k
FY2026 Q1	42	$255k
FY2026 Q2	43	$325k
FY2026 Q3	40	$330k

Posted median by week

Week of	Ranges	Median
Sep 21, 2026	248	$356k
Oct 5, 2026	252	$356k
Oct 12, 2026	253	$356k
Oct 19, 2026	256	$356k
Oct 26, 2026	250	$356k
Nov 2, 2026	250	$356k

Recent changes

Range movedNov 4 · 6d ago

Lowered the pay range for Engineering Manager, Preparedness: now $405k to $445k, was $445k to $510k. Posting ↗

And 1 more: RTL Design Engineer - Interconnect & Network Datapath.

RetitledNov 4 · 6d ago

Retitled Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search Integrity as Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search. Posting ↗

And 2 more: Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search; Software Engineer, Full Stack (People Innovation Labs).

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