Hardware Engineer salaries in San Francisco.
What Hardware Engineer roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$235,000
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$180k – $307.5k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
54.8%
602 of 1,098 roles
Live roles
1,098
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Performance Engineer, GPU
Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling
Performance Engineer, Inference Systems
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering
Research Engineer, Interpretability
Workload Porting & Performance Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity
Research Engineer, Applied AI Engineering
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
OpenAI
|
$307,500 | 236 |
Astranis
|
$152,500 | 41 |
Fluidstack
|
$236,250 | 26 |
Astro Mechanica
|
$187,500 | 23 |
Air Apps
|
$147,500 | 16 |
|
Anthropic
|
$403,750 | 14 |
Neuralink
|
$163,950 | 14 |
DoorDash USA
|
$172,200 | 13 |
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How much do Hardware Engineer roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for Hardware Engineer roles in San Francisco is $235,000 per year. Most pay falls between $180,000 (25th percentile) and $307,500 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $147,500 to $360,000.
These figures are computed live from 1,098 active Hardware Engineer roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 602 (54.8%) 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 in San Francisco 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.