Principal Software Engineer salary guide

The ChatGPT Learning team creates the next generation of learning experiences within ChatGPT. Millions of people use ChatGPT each week to explore concepts, practice skills, and work through challenges, making learning one of the platform’s largest consumer use cases.

• Pays more than 100% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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The Connector Ecosystem team builds the platform and product experiences that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, skills, connectors, interactive apps, and open standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Pays more than 100% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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Security is at the foundation of OpenAI’s mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Security team protects OpenAI’s technology, people, and products.

• Pays more than 100% of Software Engineer jobs
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We are looking for a Senior Staff or Principal Software Engineer who has played a significant role in removing the driver from an autonomous vehicle operating on freeways, and who can help Zoox navigate that same journey.

• Pays more than 98% of Software Engineer jobs
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Every perception, prediction, and planning decision runs on an onboard compute: a fixed-power, fixed-thermal, safety-critical, real-time system. That makes GPU execution one of the most consequential engineering problems in the company.

• Pays more than 97% of Software Engineer jobs
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Set the technical vision and roadmap for model training and serving, with reusable interfaces to data and feature infrastructure. Lead architectures for distributed training, fine-tuning, distillation, evaluation, and high-scale CPU/GPU inference.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
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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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 14+ years experience
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Great opportunity to join the core group at NVIDIA working to architect and build scalable and distributed NGC Cloud services. Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform, and be a major contributor of the entire platform’s architecture.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Drive rack-scale SW/FW architecture alignment across CSP engagements — including fabric management software, link health monitoring, GPU/NVSwitch error handling, SW/FW serviceability features (e.g., hot-plug support, component isolation, firmware-driven recovery), and…

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Own architecture and lead implementation of large-scale OpenStack infrastructure supporting bare-metal provisioning, virtual machines, and engineering workloads spanning several datacenters around the globe.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Drive reliability work streams with CSP engineering teams — ensuring shared understanding of MTBI measurement methodology, failure classification, and health monitoring architecture.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Define the complete software architecture for rack-scale infrastructure products and services, covering control plane services, infrastructure management, firmware, operating systems, kernel drivers, networking fabrics, accelerator software, and user-mode manageability software.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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Drive performance characterization work streams with engineering teams of key CSP/hyperscale customers — ensuring they understand platform performance expectations, profiling methodology, and tuning options for their specific workloads.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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100% hands-on coding role in C language, Kernel and Userspace. Access advanced AI tools and a token budget for code development provided by NVIDIA, the world's AI factory leader.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Drive system software architecture alignment and technical deep dives, acting as the primary software engineering contact for NPI projects with key customers.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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Define technical strategy and development of NVIDIA’s Data Center diagnostic systems, orchestrating large-scale stress testing for CPUs, GPUs, networking, memory, and high-speed interconnects.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Improve reliability, performance, observability, release confidence, and end-user experience across desktop, web, and service-based AI products.

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Build scalable mapping systems using crowdsourced perception data and multi-camera video collected from a vast number of vehicles. Develop 3D reconstruction, structure-from-motion, pose estimation, and multi-view geometry algorithms for large-scale road scene understanding.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Own APF Core Services: Build and harden the Runtime Policy Verifier, signed policy bundle verification, trust-root handling, freshness, rollback protection, subject binding to attested runtime context, revocation checks, and authorization APIs used by APF-compatible enforcement…

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Shape the architecture of the hardware abstraction layers and core system libraries, and own the API contracts for the components you lead. Design and implement drivers, runtimes, and data movement and aggregation pipelines that execute workloads on novel silicon.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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Develop Java, Scala and CUDA/C++ libraries to accelerate DataFrames and I/O operations on common file formats such as Parquet, ORC and JSON. Enable interoperability with table formats such as Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake, and metastores such as Unity Catalog.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Define and prototype AI system architectures spanning optical and e-beam inspection, wafer and mask inspection, metrology, defect review, equipment signals, and process data.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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Designing and building world-class software-defined network infrastructure grounded in EVPN and BGP architectures. Contributing to software development processes with meticulous attention to detail. Performing code reviews to ensure reliable and correct feature implementation.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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As a member of our team, you will use your design abilities, coding expertise, and creativity to deliver the best Compute platform in the world.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Lead the build and development of next-generation APIs, state management, and workflow orchestration systems that automate fleet lifecycle operations at a massive scale.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 16+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 97% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 97% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
• Degree required
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Serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for Product Security, defining the long-term technical vision and security architecture for Snowflake.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Work collaboratively with a team of software engineers and systems engineers to create and maintain the foundational platform for running Reddit’s infrastructure.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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• Equity
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• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Parental leave

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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
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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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 3+ years experience
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Lead and code end-to-end features that power a seamless, AI-rich employee experience across web and native mobile apps. Architect highly performant services and UIs that surface personalized content, knowledge, and search results to a global workforce.

• Pays more than 89% of Software Engineer jobs
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Hands-on experience with test automation, production testing, and automation frameworks. Solid understanding of Linux, embedded systems, firmware, and hardware/software integration.

• Pays more than 89% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll own, in code, the contracts between our payments systems, bank connectivity and risk decisioning, and you'll build the hardest cross-system changes yourself. Expect to spend about two-thirds of your time building.

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• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Pension
• Unlimited PTO
• Parental leave
• Remote stipend

The Context Engine is ServiceNow’s platform for connecting enterprise data, knowledge graphs, and AI workloads into a single, governed context layer.

• Pays more than 86% of Software Engineer jobs
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• 401(k)
• Parental leave

• Pays more than 97% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
• Degree required
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Define and drive the long-term technical architecture for OLTP across Snowflake Postgres, Unistore and the infrastructure they depend on.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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Join the perception team at a maritime autonomy company and set the technical direction for its perception systems. You will help autonomous vehicles interpret complex ocean environments and provide reliable information for safe downstream autonomy.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 90% of Software Engineer jobs
• 12+ years experience
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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.

• Pays more than 90% of Software Engineer jobs
• 12+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
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• Benefits
• Equity

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.

• Pays more than 90% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
• Apply on company site

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.

• Pays more than 90% of Software Engineer jobs
• 12+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Apply on company site

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.

• Pays more than 90% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
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We build the core data engineering primitives that power Snowflake's streaming and transformation capabilities.

• Pays more than 90% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ years experience
• Degree required
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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.

• Pays more than 90% of Software Engineer jobs
• 12+ years experience
• Apply on company site