Salary guide
Engineering Director salary guide
Key Takeaways
- The median advertised Engineering Director salary in our $100k+ listings is $266,000 a year (USD, 179 live listings).
- The middle half of those listings pays $238,000 to $318,000; individual listings range from $117,000 to $575,000.
- NVIDIA (10), Capital One (10) and Visa (9) have the most open $100k+ Engineering Director listings.
- These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Engineering Director roles overall.
- Median base salary
- $266,000/yr
- Median of listing midpoints, USD listings only.
- Middle half of listings
- $238,000 to $318,000/yr
- 25th to 75th percentile.
- Listings counted
- 179
- Live USD listings paying $100k+.
- Countries with data
- 1
- Countries with at least 5 listings.
How much does a Engineering Director make?
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $238,000 |
| Median | $266,000 |
| 75th percentile | $318,000 |
| Lowest listing | $117,000 |
| Highest listing | $575,000 |
| Listings counted | 179 |
Which companies are hiring for Engineering Director roles at $100k+?
| 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 |
| Adobe | 6 | $239,000 |
| Roblox | 5 | $429,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 5 | $256,000 |
How does Engineering Director pay compare across countries?
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 163 | $270,000 | $240,000 to $323,000 |
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Engineering Director job openings ($100k+)
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.
- 8+ years experience
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- Unlimited PTO
- Remote stipend
- 8+ years experience
- Degree required
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- Health insurance
- Paid time off
We are looking for a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead Vercel's Forward Deployed Engineering and Professional Services function.
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote stipend
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.
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Parental leave
Leads software development teams in delivering secure, scalable, high-quality fintech applications and platforms.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree required
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Wellness
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.
- 15+ years experience
- Degree required
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Transformational Leadership: Inspire, motivate, and guide the macOS client engineering organization to deliver secure, reliable, and delightful outcomes at global scale.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Wellness
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.
- 10+ years experience
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Commission
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.
- 10+ years experience
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Wellness
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.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
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- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
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Berkeley, CanadaForm 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…
- 12+ years experience
- Degree required
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- Benefits
- Equity
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- Relocation
Director, Supplier Industrialization Engineering
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.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
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.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
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.
- 12+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
Anduril's Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Manufacturing team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware for Electromagnetic Warfare.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
Director - Engineering, High Speed SerDes & Analog / Mixed-Signal (Silicon One Optics Group)
CiscoNew · 2d 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…
- 15+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, and ensure the platform scales with customer growth and converges with GitLab's cellular architecture.
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
Strategic Leadership & Operations. Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing Americas Solutions Engineering team across enterprise, commercial, and strategic account segments.
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
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- Commission
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Learning budget
Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering (Head of PC Game Security) - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat
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.
- 2+ years experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
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.
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
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.
- 10+ years experience
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Wellness
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.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Unlimited PTO
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.
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Bonus
- Commission
- 401(k)
- Learning budget
- Wellness
Director, Head of Technology Infrastructure & Operations
PayPalNew · 1d ago
Lead PayPal Bank’s infrastructure, cloud platforms, technology operations, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and first-line information security functions.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
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.
- 12+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Commission
- Health insurance
- Parental leave
- Learning budget
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.
- 12+ years experience
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- Equity
- Bonus
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Adobe is seeking an exceptional Senior Director of Engineering to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Growth Apps for Customer Experience Services (CES).
- 15+ years experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
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- Equity
- Bonus
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Own the GTM technology ecosystem across CRM, CPQ, forecasting tooling, data infrastructure, integrations, automation, and internal tooling.
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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.
- 8+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Wellness
Senior Director, Enterprise SaaS Sales - Capital One Software (Remote)
Capital OneNew · 2d ago
We are seeking an elite, Senior Director-level Individual Contributor to join our pioneering team.
- 10+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Bonus
- Health insurance
Technical Leadership : Define and execute the long-term technical strategy for Boulevard's data platform, ensuring scalability and reliability as we grow.
- 10+ years experience
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- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote stipend
Technical Leadership : Define and execute the long-term infrastructure and security strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security as Boulevard grows.
- 10+ years experience
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- Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote stipend
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.
- Apply on company site
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- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
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.
- 7+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Bonus
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.
- Pays more than 81% of AI Engineer jobs
- 8+ years experience
- Degree required
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- Benefits
- Bonus
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.
- 8+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Bonus
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.
- 10+ years experience
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- Equity
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
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.
- 11–15 years experience
- Degree required
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- Equity
- Commission
- Health insurance
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to guide the development of AI-native, production-ready machine learning products for external clients.
- 16+ years experience
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- Equity
- Bonus
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The Data Center Design team manages the delivery of comprehensive site, campus, architectural, and engineering designs across CoreWeave’s global data center portfolio.
- 15+ years experience
- Degree required
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Commission
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental leave
- Learning budget
- Wellness
- Meals
Director of Infrastructure Engineering (Remote, Full-time) — Micro1 via AI Gig Scout
micro1 · 24d ago
You will own the architecture and evolution of a multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP (scalability, reliability, security and cost); lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure/Platform Engineering team; build infrastructure as code with Terraform or equivalent;…
- Apply on Kubernetesjobs
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- Equity
- Bonus
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
Culture Amp is looking for a Director, Solutions Engineering to lead our Solutions Engineering team within Customer Value & Services.
- Apply on company site
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- Equity
- Commission
- Health insurance
- Parental leave
Lead your team through the full product life cycle; from conception, through development, to launch and commercialization. Impact decision making inside and outside of the software engineering realm. All software decisions have an impact on our hardware and material products.
- 5+ years experience
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- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Parental leave
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.
- 5–8 years experience
- Apply on company site
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- Bonus
- Commission
- 401(k)
- Learning budget
- Wellness
The world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to operationalize AI and run it as a true business performance engine delivering measurable value. For more, visit the Dataiku blog , LinkedIn , X , and YouTube .
- Apply on company site
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- Bonus
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- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Director, Pharmacovigilance & Safety Technology
Alnylam PharmaceuticalsNew · 4h ago
As the global development and commercial portfolio expands, Safety & Risk Management requires scalable, compliant, and data-driven technology capabilities that support high-quality pharmacovigilance across investigational and marketed products.
- 12+ years experience
- Degree required
- Apply on company site
- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
Twilio is an innovation-driven company on a transformative journey, and we are seeking an executive communications director to be the trusted communications partner for Twilio’s Chief Product & Technology Officer In this highly visible and strategic role, you will craft and…
- 10+ years experience
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- Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Parental leave
Senior Vice President of Technology - Data Analytics and Population Health Consulting
Alera GroupNew · 1d ago
Vital Incite, an Alera Group Company, is searching for a Senior Vice President of Technology - Data Analytics and Population Health Consulting to join their team!
- Degree required
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- Health insurance
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Paid time off
How is this Engineering Director salary data calculated?
- Source: the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems.
- Method: each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Headline figures use USD listings only, and the median is the middle value, not an average.
- Coverage: only listings paying $100k+ or more are included, so the data does not describe all Engineering Director pay. Listings that publish no salary are not counted.
- Freshness: closed and stale listings are removed, and the figures are recalculated as the listings change.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a Engineering Director make?
The median Engineering Director salary in our $100k+ listings is $266,000 a year, based on 179 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $238,000 to $318,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Engineering Director roles overall.
What is the salary range for a Engineering Director?
Individual $100k+ Engineering Director listings range from $117,000 to $575,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $238,000 and the 75th percentile is $318,000.
Which companies are hiring for Engineering Director roles at $100k+?
The companies with the most open $100k+ 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).
Where does this Engineering Director salary data come from?
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 12, 2026.
Are remote and hybrid Engineering Director jobs included?
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.