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Salaries in Santa Clara
The average salary in Santa Clara is $171k – $315k per year, based on 436 jobs.
Median salary
$234k
Based on 436 jobs · 5% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$140k
Average
$243.0k
75th percentile
$356.5k
Top paying titles in Santa Clara
Highest paying job titles in Santa Clara, ranked by average salary.
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $153.7k – $305.4k · 95 jobs
Software Engineering
Avg. $171.6k – $315.3k · 81 jobs
AI Engineering
Avg. $183.9k – $335.8k · 35 jobs
Electrical Engineering
Avg. $143k – $307.7k · 33 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $192.9k – $338.0k · 30 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $173.5k – $309.1k · 29 jobs
Semiconductor Engineering
Avg. $142.8k – $339.9k · 28 jobs
Technical Program Management
Avg. $177.3k – $317.7k · 25 jobs
Systems Engineering
Avg. $186.3k – $323.9k · 24 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $148.3k – $305.9k · 23 jobs
Top paying skills in Santa Clara
Highest paying skills in Santa Clara, ranked by average salary.
Python
Avg. $164.1k – $302.4k · 205 jobs
C++
Avg. $162.5k – $298.6k · 119 jobs
Deep Learning
Avg. $172.2k – $307.8k · 74 jobs
CUDA
Avg. $166.1k – $291.7k · 70 jobs
PyTorch
Avg. $165.4k – $300.4k · 62 jobs
Linux
Avg. $164.6k – $292.9k · 62 jobs
Machine Learning
Avg. $180.1k – $332.9k · 54 jobs
Kubernetes
Avg. $187.4k – $339.2k · 47 jobs
Perl
Avg. $133.3k – $282.5k · 43 jobs
Docker
Avg. $176.6k – $318.4k · 38 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
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Santa Clara 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.