Firmware Engineer salaries in San Francisco.
What Firmware Engineer roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$210,000
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$169.5k – $298k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
50.2%
129 of 257 roles
Live roles
257
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Site Reliability Engineer, Frontier Systems Infrastructure
Software Engineer, Frontier Clusters Infrastructure
Software Engineer, Fleet Management
Security Labs Engineer
Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra
Systems Engineer (Network / Storage / Systems)
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
OpenAI
|
$339,000 | 27 |
SPAN
|
$167,500 | 9 |
DoorDash USA
|
$203,700 | 8 |
Neuralink
|
$164,500 | 8 |
Samsara
|
$207,350 | 7 |
Redwood Materials
|
$206,250 | 7 |
| AM Amperesand | $195,000 | 7 |
Eight Sleep
|
$180,000 | 7 |
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How much do Firmware Engineer roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for Firmware Engineer roles in San Francisco is $210,000 per year. Most pay falls between $169,500 (25th percentile) and $298,000 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $142,050 to $353,100.
These figures are computed live from 257 active Firmware Engineer roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 129 (50.2%) 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 Firmware Engineer roles in San Francisco include OpenAI and Anthropic.
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.