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Security Engineer · Washington

$190,500

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +0.3%

$190,000 $190,500

$161.7k 25th

$190.5k Median

$230.7k 75th

$129.4k

$267.3k

Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $68.4k – $445k · outliers off-axis

Disclosing: 89.2%
Live roles: 157

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Forward Deployed Security Engineer

OpenAI · Washington, DC

$266,000 – $445,000

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Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City,… +1

$300,000 – $405,000

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Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA |…

$320,000 – $405,000

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Anthropic · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA +2

$320,000 – $405,000

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$320,000 – $405,000

Staff Security Engineer, Level 6

Snap Inc. · Los Angeles, California

$251,000 – $377,000

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Cisco · San Jose, California, US

$250,600 – $362,600

Pre-Sales Engineer, Cybersecurity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise · All, Washington, United States of…

$146,000 – $343,000

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Scale AI · New York, NY +2

$198,400 – $342,000

Infrastructure Security Engineer, Public Sector

Scale AI · New York, NY +2

$198,400 – $342,000

Top companies hiring

Company	Median	Roles
SpaceX	$145,000	12
Anduril Industries	$193,000	11
Booz Allen Hamilton	$142,400	8
MetroStar	$184,000	7
SA Salesforce	$203,025	6
Palantir	$170,000	6
Anthropic	$362,500	5
SA Scale AI	$267,300	5