Median salary
$175,000
median over time
Typical range
$144k – $217.5k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
27.4%
3,251 of 11,873 roles
Live roles
11,873
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Performance Engineer, Inference Systems
Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling
Performance Engineer, GPU
Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling - London
Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering
Research Engineer, Interpretability
Workload Porting & Performance Engineer
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Anduril Industries
|
$170,000 | 728 |
|
OpenAI
|
$307,500 | 265 |
Air Apps
|
$71,586 | 174 |
Relativity Space
|
$156,750 | 139 |
PlayStation Global
|
$205,663 | 70 |
Vast
|
$166,656 | 69 |
Apex Technology, Inc.
|
$160,000 | 64 |
Samsara
|
$153,238 | 55 |
Hardware Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $235,000 | 606 |
| New York | $225,000 | 173 |
| Seattle | $225,000 | 171 |
| Austin | $195,000 | 81 |
| Boston | $193,000 | 94 |
| Chicago | $190,000 | 29 |
| London | $175,072 | 48 |
| Toronto | $172,500 | 13 |
| Atlanta | $167,500 | 29 |
| Los Angeles | $161,250 | 124 |
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How much do Hardware Engineer roles pay?
The median salary for Hardware Engineer roles is $175,000 per year. Most pay falls between $144,000 (25th percentile) and $217,500 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $105,000 to $268,000.
These figures are computed live from 11,873 active Hardware Engineer roles on JobsRadar, of which 3,251 (27.4%) publish a salary range. Pay is normalized to annualized USD so roles can be compared on equal terms; the highest-paying roles listed above show their original posted currency. Numbers refresh every few hours as new roles are posted and older ones close.
Employers currently hiring well-paid Hardware Engineer roles include Anthropic and OpenAI.
Salary transparency varies by employer and region, so the disclosing share above reflects only roles that publish pay — not every open position. Use it as a directional benchmark rather than an exact offer.