Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $361,000 |
| Median | $404,000 |
| 75th percentile | $428,000 |
| Lowest listing | $212,000 |
| Highest listing | $575,000 |
| Listings counted | 34 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 9 | $404,000 |
| Roblox | 5 | $429,000 |
| 2 | $433,000 | |
| Mastercard | 2 | $320,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 32 | $408,000 | $391,000 to $429,000 |
Set technical strategy, roadmaps, and priorities, balancing emerging graphics capabilities with existing product commitments. Guide hardware/software co-design and the evolution of graphics APIs, compilers, and shading languages to bring new capabilities to developers.
We are looking for a Senior Director of Generative AI to lead the Applied AI organization inside Build, responsible for turning state-of-the-art foundation models into high-quality, reliable creation systems at Roblox scale.
Set the technical vision and multi-year strategy for Ads Quality machine learning, connecting model innovation to Pinner value, advertiser performance, revenue, and marketplace health.
Define technical strategy and investment priorities across Interfaces, Ingestion, User Match, and Conversion Quality. Lead managers and senior technical leaders through a portfolio of multi-year ML and data-platform investments.
Director of Customer Engineering will partner directly with the Area Vice President of Sales for Digital Native/AI to lead one of Cloudflare’s fastest-growing market segments.
Own board and system level hardware reliability across NVIDIA's product lines, including Data Center, Server, Graphics Cards, Automotive, Embedded, and emerging platforms.
Design, implement, and institutionalize the integration readiness process for all next-generation datacenter board products — owning manufacturing and test readiness end to end so build starts land on schedule and at target yield.
As VP of Engineering, you’ll lead the engineering organization and build alongside it. We expect you to spend part of each day doing hands-on technical work.
We don't want to answer that by hiring hundreds of renewal managers.
Drive the software end-to-end architecture for NVIDIA's rack-scale products. Maintain deep understanding of the product portfolio and roadmap; translate forward-looking plans into clear, formal software requirements that anchor execution across the organization.
Set the technical vision and architecture for NVIDIA’s next-generation autonomous driving stack, spanning both classical and learning-based approaches.
Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for fraud technology built to scale and support customers in building, customizing, and operating fraud detection, prevention, investigation, and decisioning systems.
Lead software engineering teams responsible for cloud compute, bare-metal fleet management, and CI infrastructure, owning architecture, implementation, deployment, and operations.
This role sets the strategy and leads the team that delivers custom AI to end customers through NVIDIA’s partner ecosystem. The team deepens partner relationships and leads three-way engagements among NVIDIA, the partner, and the end customer.
Riot Games · 4d ago
Riot is building the capabilities to carry AI and machine learning from promise, through prototype, into reliable production systems. AI Foundations helps make that possible by building shared platforms and enabling teams across Riot to deliver meaningful AI-powered outcomes.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
We are revolutionizing transportation and shaping the future of mobility, and as the leader of the Product Software organization, you’ll be at the forefront of our mission to redefine the way we live and travel.
Own and manage the global Service Desk, tech bar, and executive support operations as an integrated employee experience platform.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
We are seeking a Director of Engineering for Studio Systems to lead a critical area of Roblox Studio’s technical foundation.
The AI Control Tower is ServiceNow’s central hub for governing every AI model, agent, and dataset across the enterprise. We’re building the infrastructure enterprises will depend on as agentic AI moves from experimentation into production.
Over the last few years, Duolingo has expanded beyond language learning into entirely new subjects: Math, Music, and Chess.
Nuro is looking for a Head of Systems Engineering to own the systems backbone that enables the Nuro Driver to scale safely and commercially.
NVIDIA · 14d ago
Lead and mentor a team of product development engineers responsible for validation, characterization, and production ramp of NVIDIA product lines. Drive product development strategy from early silicon validation through qualification and high-volume manufacturing.
Fanatics Commerce · 10d ago
Fanatics Commerce is seeking a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering to own and elevate the technology powering our ecommerce platform, leading a ~180-person Engineering and Business Intelligence organization through senior engineering leaders.
As Director, you lead the Forward Deployed team across one or more programs and are responsible for their technical outcomes.
Financial Incentives (FIN) is where Garner's promise becomes real for a member: the moment they are paid back for choosing better care. Behind that simple experience sits one of the hardest problems in the company.
Mastercard is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead the Developer Workbench, a strategic platform designed to deliver a unified, AI-enabled, end-to-end software engineering experience across the enterprise.
Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible.
We are looking for a Director, Civil, Structural and Architectural (CSA) Engineering to be Volta's subject matter expert and design authority for CSA engineering across our global portfolio of AI factories.
As VP of Engineering, you will lead our flat-by-design engineering organization. Scaling our impact through better infrastructure, better context systems, and agents that compound every engineer's output.
The median Engineering Director salary in our $400k+ listings is $404,000 a year, based on 34 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $361,000 to $428,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $400k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Engineering Director roles overall.
Individual $400k+ Engineering Director listings range from $212,000 to $575,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $361,000 and the 75th percentile is $428,000.
The companies with the most open $400k+ Engineering Director listings are NVIDIA (9 listings, median $404,000), Roblox (5 listings, median $429,000), Pinterest (2 listings, median $433,000) and Mastercard (2 listings, median $320,000).
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.
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