Software Engineer Salaries
The average Software Engineer salary is $190.5k – $311.4k per year across 161 jobs. Pay ranges from $137.3k – $201.3k for Entry Level roles to $203.2k – $323.4k at the Senior level.
Average salary range
$190.5k – $311.4k
Based on 161 jobs · 11% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$150k
Average
$251.0k
75th percentile
$405k
Software Engineer salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Level | $137.3k – $201.3k | 8 | +36% |
| Mid Level | $165.6k – $289.1k | 56 | +16% |
| Senior | $203.2k – $323.4k | 89 | +10% |
Top companies for Software Engineer salaries
9 companies hiring for Software Engineer roles, ranked by average salary.
NVIDIA
Avg. $141.5k – $257.2k · 24 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $310.8k – $410.4k · 17 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $263.2k – $404.7k · 16 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $137.7k – $230.9k · 15 jobs
xAI
Avg. $179k – $424k · 15 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $149.2k – $218.8k · 11 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $210k – $385k · 6 jobs
Scale
Avg. $202.8k – $260.1k · 6 jobs
Baseten
Avg. $150k – $238k · 5 jobs
Software Engineer salaries by location
Average Software Engineer salaries across 7 locations.
Related skills
Top paying skills across 6 skills.
Related 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
AI Engineering
Avg. $201.5k – $311.3k · 134 jobs
Software Engineer 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.