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Member of Technical Staff salary

65 posted ranges at 9 companies · median $310k · H-1B median $214k (839 filings)

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By level

Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

LevelPostedH-1B
Entry2 posted$183k to $228k2 postingsNone
Senior4 posted$300k$260k to $330k$227k7 filings
ManagerH-1B onlyNo ranges$360k4 filings
Not stated59 posted$310k$200k to $405k$210k827 filings

By company

CompanyPosted
Perplexity26 posted ranges$313k$220k to $405k
Modal12 posted ranges$260k$210k to $315k
xAI11 posted ranges$310k$180k to $440k
Mercor9 posted ranges$330k$160k to $500k
LlamaIndex3 posted ranges$215k$180k to $250k
Cohere1 posted range$235k to $325kone posting
Cockroach Labs1 posted range$185k to $200kone posting
Decagon1 posted range$185kone posting
Labelbox1 posted range$140k to $200kone posting

Posted ranges

65 postings

PostingRange
Member of Technical Staff - Model Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $600k
Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $600k
Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Deeptune Environments (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedNew York City$160kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Mercor Enterprise Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Tech Lead Applied AI Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $485k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $485k
Member of Technical Staff - Grok Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Mid-training (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - RL Inference (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - RL Training Framework (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff - Voice Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $440k
Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise Evals Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $425k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Connector Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Storage Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Adoption) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (General Software Engineer, Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Member of Technical Staff, Android (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $400k
Member of Technical Staff, iOS (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $400k
Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $350k
Member of Technical Staff - ML Performance (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$200kto $350k
Member of Technical Staff - Python SDK (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$150kto $350k
Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$150kto $350k
Member of Technical Staff - Research, Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$150kto $350k
Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $330k
Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Machines (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalSeniorNew York City$270kto $330k
Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Storage (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$270kto $330k
Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)CohereSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$235kto $325k
Member of Technical Staff - Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$220kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend) (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$150kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$220kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff - Product (Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedNew York City$150kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff - Storage (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff - Machines (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)LlamaIndexNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $275k
Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityEntrySan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $270k
Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$170kto $265k
Member of Technical Staff, Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)LlamaIndexNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $250k
Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research (the posting, opens in a new tab)LlamaIndexNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $250k
Member of Technical Staff (Storage) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Cockroach LabsNot statedNew York City$185kto $200k
Member of Technical Staff (the posting, opens in a new tab)LabelboxNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$140kto $200k
Member of Technical Staff - New Grad (2027 Start) (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonEntrySan Francisco Bay Area$185kto $185k
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By city

CityPosted
San Francisco Bay Area54 posted ranges$313k$220k to $405k
New York City11 posted ranges$250k$160k to $330k

H-1B by prevailing-wage level

The level the employer chose on the filing: I is entry, IV is fully competent. FY2025 Q4 to FY2026 Q3.

Level I: $262k (38) · Level II: $188k (313) · Level III: $189k (312) · Level IV: $302k (130)

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarterFilingsMedian
FY2025 Q1105$179k
FY2025 Q2165$173k
FY2025 Q3274$180k
FY2025 Q4130$202k
FY2026 Q1118$247k
FY2026 Q2221$200k
FY2026 Q3370$213k

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 2165$310k

Recent changes

DatePosting
Sep 24Member of Technical Staff, Applied ResearchLlamaIndexMember of Technical StaffPosted at $180k to $250k
Sep 24Member of Technical Staff, BackendLlamaIndexMember of Technical StaffPosted at $180k to $250k
Sep 24Member of Technical Staff, InfrastructureLlamaIndexMember of Technical StaffPosted at $200k to $275k

Related titles: Research Engineer, Research Scientist, Applied Scientist, AI Safety Researcher

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