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Software Engineer · Washington State

$193,000

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$222k 75th
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Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly, United States; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC

$405,000 – $485,000 G2i Inc.

Senior Software Engineer - AI Interaction Evaluator (Codex / Claude Code, up to $200/hr)

G2i Inc. · Miami

$104,000 – $416,000 Anthropic

Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response Platform

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

$320,000 – $405,000 Anthropic

Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products

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

$320,000 – $405,000 Hopper

Staff Backend Software Engineer

Hopper · US - Remote

$300,000 – $400,000 OpenAI

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gov

OpenAI · Washington, DC

$207,000 – $385,000 Okta

Principal Software Engineer (Auth0)

Okta · Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC

$274,000 – $376,200
SA

Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; St. Louis, MO; New York, NY; Washington, DC

$252,000 – $362,000 Anduril Industries

Staff Robotics Software Engineer, Air Vehicle Autonomy

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

$254,000 – $338,000 Anduril Industries

Staff Robotics Software Engineer, Air Vehicle Autonomy

Anduril Industries · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

$254,000 – $338,000

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Anduril Industries $222,000 83
AX Axon $193,050 26
Palantir $167,500 21
Databricks $214,700 20
Esri $129,740 13
SA Scale AI $243,000 9
Okta $206,000 9
Brex $216,000 8

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