Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $277,000 |
| Median | $306,000 |
| 75th percentile | $356,000 |
| Lowest listing | $170,000 |
| Highest listing | $575,000 |
| Listings counted | 110 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 10 | $404,000 |
| Shield AI | 7 | $265,000 |
| Visa | 6 | $271,000 |
| Roblox | 5 | $429,000 |
| Capital One | 4 | $301,000 |
| Mastercard | 4 | $284,000 |
| Snowflake | 3 | $338,000 |
| 2 | $433,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 104 | $307,000 | $278,000 to $361,000 |
The Role and Impact As a Design Verification Engineering Manager, you will lead a dynamic team of design verification engineers responsible for Xeon SoC design verification.
Enterprise IT at RV Tech is redefining how technology enables the business. Our ambition is to build the operating system for the company—connecting people, processes, data, and technology through intelligent, seamless experiences.
Lead and develop teams of CPO and Networking Chip Equipment and Production Test engineers - setting direction, developing talent, and holding a high bar for quality and execution.
Lead technology strategy workstreams related to AI workloads, acceleration architectures, and evolving memory and storage requirements across training, inference, data center, edge, and emerging AI applications.
Wells Fargo Bank · 3d ago
Lead cloud and SaaS security posture and vulnerability management across the enterprise. Quickly assess existing vulnerabilities, remediation processes, tooling, ownership, and gaps and establish priorities for action.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Strategic direction for Compute: Own the strategy and standards of excellence for the compute layer that the world's agents run on, across design, delivery, and operations. Build a culture of ownership, quality, and customer-first decision-making.
Work Location: This role is based out of our Seattle Office and follows a hybrid schedule.
The Acceptance Solutions Product Development team are the engineers responsible for a portfolio of products that drive diversification of Visa revenue, differentiate our network, and deliver value-added solutions across other rails.
Strategic Leadership. · Define and execute the strategic roadmap for Platform Engineering aligned with Visa's enterprise data, AI, and hybrid-cloud transformation objectives.
The Head of Product Management, Software leads product management for all of Apptronik's on and off-robot software, spanning the autonomy, simulation, software platforms, and cloud deployed tools.
Picarro is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to provide strategic and operational leadership across its global engineering organization.
The Cameras team is the cornerstone of Verkada's product ecosystem. We are looking for a Director of Firmware Engineering to lead the embedded software organization behind our flagship camera line.
Databricks · 8d ago
Every product Databricks ships has to be priced, contracted, rated and billed before it can earn a dollar. The Money organization builds the systems that make this happen, at hyperscaler scale and across every major cloud.
CrowdStrikeNew · 2d ago
Falcon Next-Gen SIEM (NG-SIEM) is CrowdStrike's AI native security operations platform that brings together threat detection, investigation, and response across both CrowdStrike and third-party data sources.
Set direction and long-range plans for the database platform in line with company strategy. Own database capacity and availability outcomes for GitLab.com, and communicate database risk to senior leadership.
Own the strategy, three-year vision, and business outcomes for GitLab's Agentic Software Delivery section, with a clear point of view on how artificial intelligence is changing software delivery.
It sits at the intersection of product monetization, customer experience, financial correctness, revenue operations, and enterprise trust.
We are seeking a hands-on engineering leader to direct multiple teams spanning electrical design engineering, avionics root cause analysis, and avionics build/test operations.
The team is responsible for the full Duo stack, including high-throughput, multi-region cloud services, on-premises directory and gateway integrations, and Duo Mobile for iOS and Android.
Lead the definition and execution of a comprehensive global manufacturing test strategy, ensuring seamless scalability and operational excellence from pre-production to mass production across diverse international sites.
As Vice President, Product and Software Security, you will play a critical role in ensuring that security, trust, and resilience remain foundational to the trustworthy digital experiences Adobe delivers to millions of customers worldwide.
Own the technology stack across the complete lending lifecycle end-to-end: top-of-funnel marketing targeting, real-time credit underwriting and pricing, digital application and offer experiences, automated funding operations, customer contact strategy, and downstream lien…
The SambaStack team builds the inference serving platform enterprises and service providers use to host foundation models on RDU hardware. The platform is cloud-agnostic, and the team owns deployment, orchestration, scaling, and reliability for production inference workloads.
Shield AI · 7d ago
We are seeking a Director of Systems Engineering & Architecture (SE&A) for Shield AI’s Hivemind Enterprise organization, supporting development of our autonomy platform and development ecosystem for AI Pilots.
As the Director, GTM AI Engineering you’ll run our AI Engineering team for GTM. You’ll work closely with Data Science, Analytics, and Data Engineering to serve Sales, Customer Success, Support, Enablement, and GTM leadership. This is a hands-on Director role.
Mastercard Business & Market Insights (B&MI) Capabilities & Data (C&D) is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the Product Acceleration Engineering Pillar, focused on partnering with enterprise teams to establish reusable data and application patterns that improve…
The Transformation Team leads strategic change initiatives to reimagine how Mastercard works and scales, simplifies, and accelerates business outcomes.
As a Software Engineering Director, Agentic Evaluations, your responsibilities will center around delivery of useful and credible evaluations of agents offered by software vendors.
Shield AI · 22d ago
The Compensation Director, Aircraft Engineering and Manufacturing , serves as the strategic compensation leader for the Aircraft division, providing enterprise-level oversight for compensation programs supporting manufacturing, production, operations, supply chain, logistics,…
The Director of Engineering Excellence & Enablement is a strategic leader responsible for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and execution maturity of the engineering organization.
Our Services engineering teams, part of our Quality and Scale Pillar, build and run the systems every Life360 member relies on but never sees.
Lead, manage, and mentor a team of software engineers. Create an environment where people can do their best work, grow their careers, and feel included and supported.
Figma · 2mo ago
Serve as the strategic People Partner to Figma’s CTO and Chief Design Officer, building the credibility and trust to influence how they lead, organize, and grow their teams.
This strategic role is leading the technology roadmap definition and technology development and integration to product development for WSD's propritetary in-house FBAR technology as well as other active device and packaging technologies.
Develop and execute a long-term engineering strategy for Elasticsearch's distributed systems, aligning technical priorities with product direction and business objectives.
The Director, Data Engineering leads the design, development, and deployment of scalable and secure data pipelines, platforms, and ML/AI infrastructure, leveraging cloud-native technologies and big data frameworks.
We are seeking an experienced Revenue Systems Engineering Director to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. You will own the technical architecture, implementation, and optimization of our Order-to-Cash (OTC) systems as we scale globally.
Capital OneNew · 2d ago
Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers. Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms.
Capital One · 8d ago
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.
Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers. Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms.
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.
As we scale both our proven VBAT platform and develop next-generation systems like XBAT, we are investing in how we build—not just what we build. We are seeking a senior technical leader to define and operationalize engineering design standards across the company.
VisaNew · 1d ago
Visa is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Chief Software Engineer to help lead the next generation of AI-enabled commercial payments and money movement platforms within Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS).
Zscaler · 4mo ago
We are looking for a Director, Engineering, Common Platform Services to join our team. This is a Hybrid (San Jose, CA office 3 days a week) role, reporting to the VP, Software Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department.
As a Hivemind Solutions Flight Test Leader (ACP Programs), you will serve as the end-to-end technical leader responsible for the integration, verification, and operational test of Hivemind AI Pilot capabilities on portfolio of group 5 UAS/Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP).
This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of data science, data engineering, finance, and AI.
If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.
Lead and develop the Women’s Health software engineering organization through engineering managers, directors, and key technical leaders.
The median Engineering Director salary in our $300k+ listings is $306,000 a year, based on 110 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $277,000 to $356,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $300k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Engineering Director roles overall.
Individual $300k+ Engineering Director listings range from $170,000 to $575,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $277,000 and the 75th percentile is $356,000.
The companies with the most open $300k+ Engineering Director listings are NVIDIA (10 listings, median $404,000), Shield AI (7 listings, median $265,000), Visa (6 listings, median $271,000), Roblox (5 listings, median $429,000) and Capital One (4 listings, median $301,000).
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 13, 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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