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4,283 postings · 208 companies

Member of Technical Staff salary

A deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.

66 posted ranges at 9 companies · median $306k · H-1B median $214k (839 filings)

On Titles

By level

Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

LevelPostedH-1B
Entry3 posted$185k$180k to $185kNone
Senior1 posted$140k to $160kone posting$227k7 filings
ManagerH-1B onlyNo ranges$360k4 filings
Not stated62 posted$313k$220k to $405k$210k827 filings

By company

Perplexity$313kAn AI app company posting pay on 45 open jobs, mostly Member of Technical Staff roles.H-1B $264kModal$255kAn AI infrastructure company posting pay on 17 open jobs, mostly Member of Technical Staff roles.H-1B $275kMercor$330kAn AI data company posting pay on 37 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.Abridge$231kAn AI app company posting pay on 8 open jobs, mostly Member of Technical Staff roles.Vals AI$158kIndependent benchmarks that evaluate AI models on real professional tasks.LlamaIndex$215kLlamaIndex is an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California.H-1B $270kEtched$275kDesigns inference chips and memory systems specialised for transformer models.Decagon$185kAn AI app company posting pay on 33 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.H-1B $320kLabelbox$170kAn AI data company posting pay on 5 open jobs, mostly Forward Deployed Engineer roles.
CompanyPosted
PerplexityAn AI app company posting pay on 45 open jobs, mostly Member of Technical Staff roles.$313k$220k to $405k
ModalAn AI infrastructure company posting pay on 17 open jobs, mostly Member of Technical Staff roles.$255k$175k to $300k
MercorAn AI data company posting pay on 37 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$330k$160k to $500k
AbridgeAn AI app company posting pay on 8 open jobs, mostly Member of Technical Staff roles.$231k$208k to $254k
Vals AIIndependent benchmarks that evaluate AI models on real professional tasks.$158k$130k to $185k
LlamaIndexLlamaIndex is an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California.$180k to $250k2 postings
EtchedDesigns inference chips and memory systems specialised for transformer models.$150k to $400kone posting
DecagonAn AI app company posting pay on 33 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$185kone posting
LabelboxAn AI data company posting pay on 5 open jobs, mostly Forward Deployed Engineer roles.$140k to $200kone posting

Posted ranges

Not stated$180k to $270k

Member of Technical Staff (GTM Engineer, Growth)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $485k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Training Infrastructure)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Senior$140k to $160k

Member of Technical Staff (Senior QA Web Engineer)

New York City

Perplexityseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (iOS Engineer, Computer Growth)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$130k to $185k

Member of Technical Staff - Research, AI Safety

San Francisco Bay Area

Vals AIseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$130k to $185k

Member of Technical Staff - Research, Cyber

San Francisco Bay Area

Vals AIseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $300k

Member of Technical Staff - Inference Runtime

San Francisco Bay Area

Modalseen Oct 7Posting ↗
Not stated$205k to $300k

Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning

San Francisco Bay Area

Abridgeseen Oct 7Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $400k

MTS, Inference Performance Visibility

San Francisco Bay Area

Etchedseen Sep 25Posting ↗
Not stated$130k to $185k

Member of Technical Staff - Research

San Francisco Bay Area

Vals AIseen Sep 25Posting ↗
Not stated$130k to $185k

Member of Technical Staff - Platform

San Francisco Bay Area

Vals AIseen Sep 25Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $500k

Member of Technical Staff, Backend

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$160k to $500k

Member of Technical Staff, Deeptune Environments

New York City

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$160k to $500k

Member of Technical Staff, Mercor Enterprise Platform

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$160k to $500k

Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $485k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $485k

Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $425k

Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise Evals Platform

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge Platform)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Backend Platform)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Computer Growth)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Integrations)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $405k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $400k

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$160k to $400k

Member of Technical Staff, iOS

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $350k

Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $350k

Member of Technical Staff - ML Performance

New York City

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $350k

Member of Technical Staff - SDK

San Francisco Bay Area

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $350k

Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference

New York City

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $350k

Member of Technical Staff - Research, Post-Training

New York City

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $330k

Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $300k

Member of Technical Staff - Systems

New York City

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $300k

Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)

San Francisco Bay Area

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$220k to $300k

Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

New York City

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $300k

Member of Technical Staff - Product (Growth)

New York City

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $300k

Member of Technical Staff - Machines

San Francisco Bay Area

Modalseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$188k to $277k

Member of Technical Staff, Research Science

New York City

Abridgeseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Entry$180k to $270k

Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$170k to $265k

Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)

San Francisco Bay Area

Perplexityseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$221k to $260k

Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning

San Francisco Bay Area

Abridgeseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$180k to $250k

Member of Technical Staff, Backend

San Francisco Bay Area

LlamaIndexseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$180k to $250k

Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research

San Francisco Bay Area

LlamaIndexseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$211k to $248k

Member of Technical Staff, VistA Integrations

Remote (US)

Abridgeseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$211k to $248k

Member of Technical Staff, Cerner Integrations

Remote (US)

Abridgeseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$140k to $200k

Member of Technical Staff

San Francisco Bay Area

Labelboxseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Entry$185k

Member of Technical Staff - New Grad (2027 Start)

San Francisco Bay Area

Decagonseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Entry$167k to $184k

Member of Technical Staff, Early Career

San Francisco Bay Area

Abridgeseen Sep 24Posting ↗
PostingRange
Member of Technical Staff (GTM Engineer, Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $270k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $485k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Training Infrastructure) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff, (Software Engineer, Experience) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Policy and Strategic Initiatives) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Senior QA Web Engineer) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexitySeniorNew York City$140kto $160k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (iOS Engineer, Computer Growth) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff - Research, AI Safety (the posting, opens in a new tab)Vals AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$130kto $185k
Member of Technical Staff - Research, Cyber (the posting, opens in a new tab)Vals AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$130kto $185k
Member of Technical Staff - Inference Runtime (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)AbridgeNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$205kto $300k
MTS, Inference Performance Visibility (the posting, opens in a new tab)EtchedNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $400k
Member of Technical Staff - Research (the posting, opens in a new tab)Vals AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$130kto $185k
Member of Technical Staff - Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)Vals AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$130kto $185k
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 (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, 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, Enterprise Knowledge 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, 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 AI Products) (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 (Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform) (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, 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 - SDK (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$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 - 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 statedSan Francisco Bay Area$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 - Machines (the posting, opens in a new tab)ModalNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $300k
Member of Technical Staff, Research Science (the posting, opens in a new tab)AbridgeNot statedNew York City$188kto $277k
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, Machine Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)AbridgeNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$221kto $260k
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, VistA Integrations (the posting, opens in a new tab)AbridgeNot statedRemote (US)$211kto $248k
Member of Technical Staff, Cerner Integrations (the posting, opens in a new tab)AbridgeNot statedRemote (US)$211kto $248k
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
Member of Technical Staff, Early Career (the posting, opens in a new tab)AbridgeEntrySan Francisco Bay Area$167kto $184k
About

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
Oct 574$310k
Oct 1271$310k
Oct 1970$310k
Oct 2667$310k
Nov 266$306k

Recent changes

RetitledNov 4 · 6d ago
Abridge

Retitled Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning Infrastructure as Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning. Posting ↗

ClosedNov 4 · 6d ago
Prime Intellect

Took down Member of Technical Staff - Security, last seen Oct 28. Posting ↗

And 1 more: Member of Technical Staff - Inference.

ClosedNov 4 · 6d ago
SpaceXAI

Took down Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding ($180k to $440k), last seen Oct 28. Posting ↗

ClosedNov 4 · 6d ago
Inflection AI

Took down Member of Technical Staff, Backend, last seen Oct 28. Posting ↗

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