Salaries in Austin
The average salary in Austin is $134k – $394k per year, based on 31 jobs.
Median salary
$300k
Based on 31 jobs · 14% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$100k
Average
$263.8k
75th percentile
$500k
Top paying titles in Austin
Highest paying job titles in Austin, ranked by average salary.
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $119.6k – $390.0k · 16 jobs
ASIC Design
Avg. $109k – $363.6k · 4 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $100k – $500k · 4 jobs
Physical Design
Avg. $100k – $500k · 4 jobs
Semiconductor Engineering
Avg. $139.3k – $308.6k · 4 jobs
Software Engineering
Avg. $100k – $500k · 4 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $100k – $500k · 3 jobs
Site Reliability Engineering
Avg. $100k – $500k · 3 jobs
VLSI Design
Avg. $112k – $421.5k · 3 jobs
Verification Engineering
Avg. $117.3k – $224.3k · 3 jobs
Top paying skills in Austin
Highest paying skills in Austin, ranked by average salary.
Python
Avg. $127.9k – $387.8k · 17 jobs
RISC-V
Avg. $100k – $500k · 12 jobs
C++
Avg. $118.2k – $353.8k · 9 jobs
Linux
Avg. $129.1k – $411.5k · 8 jobs
Perl
Avg. $118.3k – $308.8k · 7 jobs
CPU Architecture
Avg. $124k – $348.4k · 5 jobs
Prometheus
Avg. $100k – $500k · 4 jobs
High-Performance Computing
Avg. $123k – $366.4k · 4 jobs
Ansible
Avg. $100k – $500k · 4 jobs
Grafana
Avg. $100k – $500k · 4 jobs
Top paying companies
NVIDIA
Avg. $169.9k – $298.2k · 467 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $248.5k – $338.9k · 327 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $258.6k – $337.8k · 298 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $136.8k – $196.5k · 261 jobs
Crusoe
Avg. $153.3k – $186.8k · 253 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $145.3k – $234.6k · 182 jobs
Other locations
Austin salary FAQs
All salary figures are normalized to USD annual equivalents. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.