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Worldwide

Staff Engineer · San Francisco

$245,150

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▼ -0.5%

$246,375 $245,150

$222.4k 25th

$245.2k Median

$285.5k 75th

$198.5k

$362.5k

Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $15k – $850k · outliers off-axis

Disclosing: 83.8%
Live roles: 745

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Highest-paying jobs

Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA

$350,000 – $850,000

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Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

$350,000 – $850,000

Staff Software Engineer, Code RL

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

$405,000 – $625,000

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

$405,000 – $625,000

Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

$405,000 – $605,000

Staff+ Software Engineer, Databases

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

$320,000 – $485,000

Staff+ Software Engineer, Financial Fraud

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

$320,000 – $485,000

Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Inference & Training Platform)

Perplexity · San Francisco

$250,000 – $485,000

Staff Software Engineer, Claude Design

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

$320,000 – $485,000

Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards ML Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA

$320,000 – $485,000

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Company	Median	Roles
Anthropic	$402,500	55
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Crusoe	$237,500	30
Perplexity	$312,500	27
Pinterest	$297,883	18
Okta	$230,500	17
Harvey	$268,338	16
CoreWeave	$231,500	14