Salaries in Palo Alto
The average salary in Palo Alto is $173k – $387k per year, based on 86 jobs.
Median salary
$310k
Based on 86 jobs · 21% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$180k
Average
$280.1k
75th percentile
$440k
Top paying titles in Palo Alto
Highest paying job titles in Palo Alto, ranked by average salary.
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $180k – $440k · 23 jobs
Software Engineering
Avg. $177.1k – $427.1k · 21 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $180k – $440k · 13 jobs
Engineering
Avg. $173.3k – $417.8k · 9 jobs
AI Engineer
Avg. $180k – $440k · 9 jobs
Site Reliability Engineering
Avg. $180k – $416.3k · 8 jobs
Member of Technical Staff
Avg. $180k – $440k · 8 jobs
Backend Engineer
Avg. $180k – $440k · 7 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $180k – $424.3k · 7 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $177.4k – $393.7k · 7 jobs
Top paying skills in Palo Alto
Highest paying skills in Palo Alto, ranked by average salary.
Python
Avg. $177.2k – $406.6k · 48 jobs
Rust
Avg. $181.1k – $424.7k · 36 jobs
Kubernetes
Avg. $181.0k – $421.4k · 21 jobs
Distributed Systems
Avg. $180k – $437.9k · 19 jobs
Machine Learning
Avg. $178.2k – $434.7k · 17 jobs
JAX
Avg. $180k – $440k · 15 jobs
Terraform
Avg. $177.5k – $416.7k · 12 jobs
C++
Avg. $180k – $436k · 10 jobs
Reinforcement Learning
Avg. $180k – $440k · 10 jobs
Go
Avg. $180k – $416.7k · 9 jobs
Top paying companies
NVIDIA
Avg. $169.6k – $298.2k · 442 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $248.7k – $338.5k · 330 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $260.8k – $340.1k · 293 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $136.6k – $196.1k · 262 jobs
Crusoe
Avg. $151.6k – $184.6k · 261 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $145.3k – $234.6k · 182 jobs
Other locations
Palo Alto 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.