Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $239,000 |
| Median | $268,000 |
| 75th percentile | $321,000 |
| Lowest listing | $119,000 |
| Highest listing | $575,000 |
| Listings counted | 187 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 10 | $404,000 |
| Capital One | 10 | $264,000 |
| Visa | 9 | $255,000 |
| Shield AI | 7 | $265,000 |
| Mastercard | 7 | $247,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 6 | $256,000 |
| Adobe | 6 | $239,000 |
| Roblox | 5 | $429,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 172 | $270,000 | $242,000 to $323,000 |
Lead and develop the Women’s Health software engineering organization through engineering managers, directors, and key technical leaders.
Databricks · 28d ago
As Databricks scales at unprecedented velocity, how we invest our R&D capital—both human and compute—is critical to our scale. We are looking for a Product Finance leader to own R&D capital allocation and engineering operations.
As the Senior Systems Engineering Director (Senior SED) for Majors , you will lead the pre-sales engineering organization across our highest-revenue majors accounts.
Boomi is seeking an experienced, visionary Director of Solution Engineering (Commercial AMER) to lead, scale, and inspire our commercial presales organization across the Americas.
We are looking for a Director, Field Engineering Operations to join our Revenue Operations team. In this role, you’ll architect the systems, processes, and insights that enable a fast-growing Field Engineering organization to scale even more effectively.
We are looking for a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead Vercel's Forward Deployed Engineering and Professional Services function.
We're looking for our founding Director, Hardware Engineering to build and lead the team that takes Gallatin's software into the field. You'll own design of rugged edge compute, sensors and tactical communications; designed to work in harsh, disconnected, contested environments.
Lead RF engineering for a defense technology team developing high-power directed energy systems to counter drone threats. This hands-on role focuses on building and validating the RF architecture before growing the engineering team as the company scales.
Manage a direct team of 15+ manufacturing engineers, manufacturing software engineers and program managers responsible for developing and maintaining the manufacturing tools, systems and processes that bring Formlabs products to the market.
Leads software development teams in delivering secure, scalable, high-quality fintech applications and platforms.
We collect petabytes of data every day and turn it to insights and business metrics. In this role, you will lead and scale our Data Ingestion & Analytics Platform team and help the members of your team grow both technically and professionally.
To achieve this, we are seeking an Engineering Director, Automated Material Handling Systems, to define, develop, and execute the roadmap for automated material handling systems (AMHS), factory automation, and autonomous logistics solutions across both greenfield and brownfield…
Transformational Leadership: Inspire, motivate, and guide the macOS client engineering organization to deliver secure, reliable, and delightful outcomes at global scale.
The Client Platform team, part of Business Technology (BT) at Workday, is responsible for managing, securing, and optimizing every end-user device across our global workforce. We build the digital foundation that enables employees to work securely and seamlessly from anywhere.
You will also influence the way Asana evaluates, adopts, and governs the tools and platforms our employees rely on. You will be responsible for the Client Platform Engineering, Application Engineering, and Identity & Integrations teams, who deliver this work.
PayPal Bank (In formation) is seeking a Director, Head of Core Banking Technology Platforms, to lead the strategy, architecture, implementation, and operation of platforms supporting deposits, lending, payment gateway services, and Federal Reserve master-account connectivity.
Form Energy is hiring a Director of Supplier Industrialization Engineering and Quality to build and lead the team responsible for the technical relationship with our supplier base, from first sketch through high-volume production, and for the quality systems that ensure…
Relativity Space · 9mo ago
The Reliability team at Relativity Space ensures quality is built into every stage of the Terran R design and production process, embedding reliability from the very beginning.
The Reliability team at Relativity Space ensures quality is built into every stage of the Terran R design and production process, embedding reliability from the very beginning.
As the Director of Manufacturing Engineering, your role encompasses the strategic oversight and tactical management of manufacturing engineering and systems to support both the development of new products and the scaling of high-volume production in Waltham, MA.
Anduril's Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Manufacturing team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware for Electromagnetic Warfare.
Cisco · 3d ago
The Director will be responsible for setting up and leading a high-performance engineering design team in the US & India for Cisco’s Client Optics Group (COG) and driving the end-to-end execution of optical transceiver development for COG’s silicon-photonics–based transceiver…
Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, and ensure the platform scales with customer growth and converges with GitLab's cellular architecture.
As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily.
Strategic Leadership & Operations. Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing Americas Solutions Engineering team across enterprise, commercial, and strategic account segments.
Riot Games · 1mo ago
Manage, identify, recruit, interview, and hire engineers to help the team scale effectively. Set direction and drive high-impact anti-cheat capabilities from ambiguity through production across user-mode, kernel-mode, and obfuscation tooling surfaces.
Build and own a trusted semantic model, with governed metrics and business definitions, that answers business questions consistently across every tool. Build evals and ground-truth datasets that measure answer quality, and use them to drive improvements and catch regressions.
The Eligibility & Revenue Systems are the enterprise backbone that makes the employer and health plan business work: they ingest files, determine eligibility, power billing, and integrate incentives so customers can get members into care without friction.
Everpure is seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Director, HR & Legal Technology and Transformation to lead technology strategy, enterprise applications, and transformation initiatives supporting the Human Resources and Legal organizations.
Mastercard is seeking a Director, Software Engineering to lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and evolving enterprise-scale platforms that power secure, innovative, and resilient payment solutions.
PayPalNew · 2d ago
Lead PayPal Bank’s infrastructure, cloud platforms, technology operations, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and first-line information security functions.
Recruiting, mentoring, and building a world-class team of sales engineering managers, architects, and individual contributors. Collaborating with sales leadership and clients to develop and execute winning segment and account-level strategies.
The platform enables interoperability of agents, capabilities, and workflows across the Adobe Creative Cloud, Experience Cloud, Document Clouds, and future product lines. It is transforming Adobe from a suite of best-in-class tools into a unified, AI-native ecosystem.
Adobe is seeking an exceptional Senior Director of Engineering to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Growth Apps for Customer Experience Services (CES).
Own the GTM technology ecosystem across CRM, CPQ, forecasting tooling, data infrastructure, integrations, automation, and internal tooling.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
Capital One · 3d ago
We are seeking an elite, Senior Director-level Individual Contributor to join our pioneering team.
Technical Leadership : Define and execute the long-term technical strategy for Boulevard's data platform, ensuring scalability and reliability as we grow.
Technical Leadership : Define and execute the long-term infrastructure and security strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security as Boulevard grows.
This is an enterprise-level leadership role responsible for defining and leading the company’s technology, data, and AI partnership strategy. The role will serve as the executive owner of the broader technology and data partnership ecosystem.
Capital One is looking for an experienced product leader who can lead the Engineering 360 team. This team is optimizing Capital One’s Card developer experience to automate everything but the creative.
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
Manage and develop senior EPM & TPMs and establish clear expectations for impact, judgment, technical program management, and leadership. Own the hiring strategy, succession planning, performance management, career development, and leveling standards for the EPM organization.
We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team. We are looking to add a Director, Applications Engineering to our team.
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to guide the development of AI-native, production-ready machine learning products for external clients.
The Data Center Design team manages the delivery of comprehensive site, campus, architectural, and engineering designs across CoreWeave’s global data center portfolio.
The median Engineering Director salary in our $200k+ listings is $268,000 a year, based on 187 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $239,000 to $321,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Engineering Director roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Engineering Director listings range from $119,000 to $575,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $239,000 and the 75th percentile is $321,000.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Engineering Director listings are NVIDIA (10 listings, median $404,000), Capital One (10 listings, median $264,000), Visa (9 listings, median $255,000), Shield AI (7 listings, median $265,000) and Mastercard (7 listings, median $247,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 14, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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