Software Engineering Salaries
The average salary for Software Engineering jobs is $218.3k – $326.6k per year across 160 jobs. Pay ranges from $150k – $192.4k for Entry Level roles to $300.1k – $393.6k at the Director level.
Median salary
$265k
Based on 160 jobs · 21% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$167.3k
Average
$272.4k
75th percentile
$392.5k
Software Engineering salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Level | $150k – $192.4k | 4 | +37% |
| Mid Level | $179.5k – $285.9k | 60 | +20% |
| Senior | $236.0k – $345.1k | 80 | +21% |
| Director | $300.1k – $393.6k | 7 | +26% |
Top companies for Software Engineering salaries
10 companies hiring for Software Engineering roles, ranked by average salary.
OpenAI
Avg. $258.7k – $375.5k · 32 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $303.7k – $421.8k · 24 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $158.9k – $269.3k · 18 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $195.1k – $333.1k · 14 jobs
LangChain
Avg. $182.4k – $252.9k · 11 jobs
xAI
Avg. $170k – $388.3k · 6 jobs
Scale
Avg. $182.8k – $228.6k · 6 jobs
Harvey
Avg. $247.8k – $300.8k · 5 jobs
Sierra
Avg. $189k – $306k · 5 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $157.6k – $226k · 5 jobs
Software Engineering salaries by location
Average Software Engineering salaries across 9 locations.
San Francisco
Avg. $244.0k – $351.1k · 75 jobs
New York City
Avg. $225.9k – $319.9k · 20 jobs
Santa Clara
Avg. $192k – $352.5k · 13 jobs
Sunnyvale
Avg. $166.2k – $284.1k · 12 jobs
Palo Alto
Avg. $168k – $378k · 5 jobs
London
Avg. $282.8k – $359.3k · 5 jobs
Mountain View
Avg. $160.8k – $263k · 4 jobs
Foster City
Avg. $182k – $251.5k · 4 jobs
Livingston
Avg. $135.3k – $193.3k · 3 jobs
Related titles
Top paying titles across 6 titles.
Software Engineering
Avg. $196.0k – $313.4k · 513 jobs
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $152.7k – $307.6k · 209 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $183.5k – $286.1k · 203 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $201.0k – $315.7k · 184 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $209.3k – $344.8k · 161 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $190.8k – $312.1k · 160 jobs
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Software Engineering 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.