Salary guide
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 17 | $361,000 | $356,000 to $396,000 |
We’re hiring a Principal Software Engineer to help define and build the next generation of AI-powered software development workflows. “Full stack” in this role extends well beyond traditional frontend and backend development.
Design and develop full-stack web applications to track, monitor, and manage large-scale AI workloads in real time. Collaborate with researchers and infrastructure teams to translate complex operational needs into intuitive UIs and scalable backends.
We are looking for fullstack software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being.
Anthropic’s Product Engineering org is looking for experienced engineers with strong full-stack fundamentals to join one of teams owning our current or emergent products.
Lambda · 27d ago
Through the console, customers manage GPUs and clusters, configure networking and identity, monitor usage and billing, and navigate increasingly sophisticated enterprise workflows.
The Enterprise Platform Technology (EPT) team builds internal software for OpenAI’s go-to-market teams, helping streamline workflows and improve decision-making.
The Consulting team is part of OpenAI’s Enterprise Verticals organization. Our goal is to help consulting teams do better work for their clients.
The Legal team is building the next generation of AI-powered products and experiences for the legal industry.
The Image Generation team is responsible for one of the fastest-growing experiences in ChatGPT, enabling users to create, edit, and transform images through natural language.
The Statsig team within OpenAI builds the experimentation, feature rollout, dynamic configuration, and analytics systems that help OpenAI ship products with speed, safety, and evidence.
As AI becomes capable of doing more useful work, the way people access and pay for it needs to evolve. Monetization Platform is a new team within Growth building the systems and experiences that make that possible across the entire suite of OpenAI products.
Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products.
OpenAI · 1mo ago
Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products.
The Cybersecurity Products team builds products at the frontier of AI and cybersecurity. Our work includes Codex Security and related cyber products that turn advances in model capability into dependable tools for defenders.
The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps.
The Agent Enablement team works across engineering, product, design, and research to bring our technology to the world. We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely.
The Coding team is reimagining how software is built in the AI era. We build tools and workflows that help software engineers work faster, tackle more ambitious projects, and spend less time on repetitive tasks.
We do not publish a Full Stack Engineer median yet: it needs at least 20 live USD listings and we currently have 17. This page covers only listings paying $400k+ or more.
The companies with the most open $400k+ Full Stack Engineer listings are OpenAI (14 listings, median $358,000) and Anthropic (2 listings, median $445,000).
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 12, 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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