System Design Salaries
The average salary for System Design jobs is $215.0k – $336.6k per year across 67 jobs. Pay ranges from $185.9k – $322.1k for Mid Level roles to $239.3k – $344.4k at the Director level.
Median salary
$262.5k
Based on 67 jobs · 22% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$180k
Average
$275.8k
75th percentile
$405k
System Design salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Level | $185.9k – $322.1k | 12 | +30% |
| Senior | $221.3k – $342.3k | 51 | +18% |
| Director | $239.3k – $344.4k | 3 | +6% |
Top companies for System Design salaries
9 companies hiring for System Design roles, ranked by average salary.
OpenAI
Avg. $251.4k – $405k · 12 jobs
xAI
Avg. $169.3k – $377.1k · 7 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $220k – $359.0k · 7 jobs
Scale
Avg. $209.2k – $261.6k · 5 jobs
EliseAI
Avg. $264k – $340k · 5 jobs
Harvey
Avg. $222k – $285.9k · 4 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $165.8k – $235.5k · 4 jobs
Decagon
Avg. $278.3k – $406.7k · 3 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $210k – $385k · 3 jobs
System Design salaries by location
Average System Design salaries across 6 locations.
Related titles
Top paying titles across 6 titles.
Software Engineering
Avg. $196.3k – $313.3k · 510 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $182.7k – $283.5k · 201 jobs
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $152.5k – $308.9k · 201 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $202.2k – $316.4k · 187 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $209.1k – $344.9k · 162 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $190.5k – $311.4k · 161 jobs
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System Design 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.