Principal Engineer Jobs.
Principal engineers set technical direction at the highest individual-contributor level. Browse principal engineer jobs from companies hiring worldwide.
Total jobs
6,477
positions indexed
New today
97
last 24 hours
Companies
1,095
actively hiring
Worldwide remote
7
from anywhere
How many Principal Engineer jobs are there right now?
There are 6,477 open Principal Engineer jobs on JobsRadar right now, from 1,095 companies hiring directly. 3,131 of them disclose pay, with a median of $167,350 a year and most offers between $133,000 and $213,563. 97 were added in the last 24 hours; the board was last refreshed on September 23, 2026 at 01:22 UTC.
Principal Engineer salary range
$133k
25th
$167.4k
Median
$213.6k
75th
$111.8k
$275k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th
Full range $13.8k – $626.6k · outliers off-axis
Based on 3,131 disclosed live listings
Updated Sep 22, 2026 from live listings
Principal Cloud Engineer
Commify
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Principal Electrical Engineer
Helion
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Principal Power Electronics Engineer
Helion
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Principal / Staff / Senior Infrastructure Engineer
AllSpice
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Software Engineer - Parsing (Principal/Staff/Senior)
AllSpice
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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
Docker
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Principal BESS Engineer
Clearway Energy
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Principal BESS Engineer
Clearway Energy
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Principal BESS Engineer
Clearway Energy
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Principal BESS Engineer
Clearway Energy
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Principal BESS Engineer
Clearway Energy
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Principal Airborne LiDAR Systems Engineer
Woolpert
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Principal Software Engineer, State Tax Registration & Closure
Gusto, Inc.
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Principal Test & Evaluation Engineer - Networked Battlefield Systems
Anduril Industries
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Principal Backend Engineer
Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
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Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Platform
Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
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Principal / Senior Software Engineer
Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
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Principal AI Engineer - Context - Agents and Context
Elastic
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Principal AI Engineer - Context - Agents and Context
Elastic
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Principal AI Engineer - Context - Agents and Context
Elastic
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Principal Software Engineer, Creator Collaboration
Roblox
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Principal Signal Processing Engineer
STR
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Principal Applied AI Engineer
Appian Corporation
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Principal ML Platform Engineer
Appian Corporation
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Principal Applied AI Engineer
Appian Corporation
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Frequently asked questions
- How many Principal Engineer jobs are open right now?
- 6,477 Principal Engineer jobs are open across 1,095 companies, as of September 23, 2026.
- What do Principal Engineer jobs pay?
- Across the 3,131 Principal Engineer jobs that disclose pay, the median is $167,350 a year, and the middle half of offers falls between $133,000 and $213,563.
- Are any Principal Engineer jobs remote?
- 7 of these Principal Engineer jobs (0.1%) are open to candidates anywhere in the world.
- Which companies are hiring Principal Engineer jobs?
- Commify, Helion, AllSpice, Docker and Clearway Energy are among the 1,095 companies currently hiring Principal Engineer jobs.
- How current are these listings?
- Every listing comes straight from the employer’s own careers system and is re-checked three times a day. This page was last updated on September 23, 2026 at 01:22 UTC.