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45 posted ranges · median $310k · H-1B median $332k (43 filings)

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Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

TitlePosted
Software Engineer22 posted ranges$310k$180k to $440k
Member of Technical Staff11 posted ranges$310k$180k to $440k
Security Engineer5 posted ranges$179k$100k to $258k
Machine Learning Engineer2 posted ranges$180k to $440k2 postings
Data Engineer2 posted ranges$149k to $329k2 postings
Analytics Engineer1 posted range$180k to $440kone posting
MLOps Engineer1 posted range$180k to $440kone posting
Evals Engineer1 posted range$175k to $275kone posting

Posted ranges

45 postings

PostingRange
Member of Technical Staff - Model Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $600k
Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $600k
Software Engineer - Voice Model (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $450k
Analytics Engineer - X (the posting, opens in a new tab)Analytics EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Exceptional Software Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Machine Learning Engineer - Ads (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Machine Learning Engineer - Recommendation Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Machine Learning EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Grok Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Mid-training (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - RL Inference (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - RL Training Framework (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Voice Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)Member of Technical StaffNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
ML Infrastructure Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)MLOps EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Mobile Android Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Mobile iOS Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Consumer Subscriptions (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer, Data Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Kernels/CUDA (C++) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Linux Kernel (C++, C) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer, Media (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Network (C++) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer, Observability (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Rust, C++) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Real-Time Storage (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Search Ranking (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Training/Inference (C++) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - X Developer Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer, X Money (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $400k
Software Engineer - X Data Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$125kto $400k
Software Engineer, Ads Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $350k
Software Engineer - Evals (the posting, opens in a new tab)Evals EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$175kto $275k
Application Security Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$100kto $258k
Infrastructure Security Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$100kto $258k
Network Security Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$100kto $258k
Software Engineer - Platform Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$100kto $258k
Sr. IT Data Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Data EngineerSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$172kto $258k
Sr. Security Engineer - GRC Fintech & Financial Services (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$152kto $258k
Sr. Security Engineer - GRC Frameworks & AI Governance (the posting, opens in a new tab)Security EngineerSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$152kto $258k
IT Systems Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$162kto $226k
Senior IT Systems Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Software EngineerSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$148kto $222k
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SpaceXAI LLC is an American artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk. It is a subsidiary of spaceflight company SpaceX, also founded by Musk, since February 2026. Source

Job board: Greenhouse (job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai). Robots check on 2026-09-24: robots.txt allows careers and jobs paths (1 other paths disallowed).

By level

LevelPostedH-1B
Senior4 posted$205k$152k to $258kNone
Not stated41 posted$310k$180k to $440k$332k43 filings

By city

CityPosted
San Francisco Bay Area45 posted ranges$310k$180k to $440k

H-1B wages by title

TitleH-1B
Member of Technical Staff42 H-1B filings$341k42 filings
Applied AI Engineer1 H-1B filingFew1 filing

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarterFilingsMedian
FY2025 Q18$306k
FY2025 Q22$316k
FY2025 Q38$321k
FY2025 Q412$320k
FY2026 Q112$364k
FY2026 Q25$360k
FY2026 Q314$284k

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 2145$310k

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