Software Engineer salary in United States

Define the end-to-end architecture: the data model, the service and API contracts, and the boundaries with the tools and teams that produce the data. Make foundational decisions and justify them in documents. Include considered alternatives and evidence that could reverse them.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 15+ 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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Set the technical vision and roadmap for model training and serving across PMLI, 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 92% of Software Engineer jobs
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Identify modernization opportunities and scale the roadmap for a company-wide evaluation system in partnership with technical leadership. Define cross-team technical strategy, align partner teams, and drive broad adoption of shared evaluation capabilities.

• Pays more than 89% of Software Engineer jobs
• 3+ years experience
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Shape the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the Notifications & Growth Platform org, aligning architecture and execution plans to Pinterest’s engagement and retention goals.

• Pays more than 89% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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• Pays more than 89% of Software Engineer jobs
• 12+ years experience
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We are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to lead System-Level and Infrastructure Testing locally in our San Jose lab.

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
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We are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) focused on Graph Database Architectures and High-Volume Reporting Engines .

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
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We are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) specializing in Data Connectors & High-Scale Ingestion .

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
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Work on cutting-edge AI research to create reliable and steerable systems. Contribute to Anthropic's mission of ensuring AI benefits society safely.

• Pays more than 97% of Software Engineer jobs
• Degree or equivalent experience
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Enterprise agents are complex systems, and they only pay off when their work is reliable and economically viable.

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
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The Autonomy Capabilities Team develops functionality to automate single- and multi-agent teams of platforms in pursuit of mission objectives and acts as a central discipline-aligned focal-point for encouraging consistent usage of technical approaches across business portfolios.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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In this role, you'll write new autonomy code — such as mission behaviors, platform-specific control, multi-agent coordination, contingencies, and executive autonomy — and own it end-to-end from software-in-the-loop, to hardware-in-the-loop, to vehicle-in-the-loop, to live test…

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
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We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
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• Paid time off
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• Remote stipend
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Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems. Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments. Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions.

• Pays more than 96% of Software Engineer jobs
• 8+ years experience
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As a Distinguished Software Engineer, you will serve as a primary technical architect and strategic advisor, shaping the future of Cisco’s AI-first engineering roadmap.

• Pays more than 93% of Software Engineer jobs
• 17+ years experience
• Degree required
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The Enterprise Identity team builds the identity foundation that enables organizations to adopt and use OpenAI products securely and reliably.

• Pays more than 97% of Software Engineer jobs
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Our mandate: put the full power of frontier Claude models in people's hands, in products that don't exist yet. You'd be a founding engineer, and engineers here own products end to end. You won't be handed a spec.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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Every dollar Anthropic earns and every dollar it spends on compute has to reach the books correctly, and the volume grows with Claude usage. That data comes from across the company and from partners: usage and billing, compute, infrastructure assets, leases.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 10+ years experience
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Data Center Security Engineering (DCSE) owns physical security across Anthropic's data center footprint: the sites, the hardware inside them, and the supply chain that delivers it.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
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Storage plays an essential role at Anthropic across research, development, product, and running the business. Our exabyte-scale, multi-cloud storage infrastructure underpins training, CI, sandboxing, inference, warehousing, and long-term data retention.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
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The Encodings Infra team maintains the libraries that engineers and researchers across Anthropic use to encode text and multimodal data into a form that Claude can consume.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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In this role, you'll design and implement core search systems from the ground up.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
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Anthropic is looking for product engineers to build internal products. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and design—you'll own outcomes, not just tasks.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 6+ years experience
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Anthropic is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build the technical foundation for how Anthropic educates customers and enterprises at scale, and to shape what that even means when AI is the delivery mechanism, not just the subject being taught.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 7+ years experience
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GTM Systems builds and runs the platform that Sales and contracting operate on.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
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We are looking for growth engineers to join our growth team. This key role will help drive user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization through data-driven strategies and technical implementations.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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That work is funded by commercial revenue — and every dollar of it runs through Billing Platform.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
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The Account Abuse team is tasked with ensuring Anthropic’s computing capacity is allocated fairly, minimizing resources available to bad actors and preventing them from coming back.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5–10 years experience
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We're looking for engineers to join a new effort building AI-powered products and capabilities for cybersecurity. You'll work across the stack to prototype new ideas and build from the ground up. This role sits at the intersection of research, product, and go-to-market.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 7+ years experience
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This role focuses on deploying reliable and interpretable AI systems that benefit society. You'll work on cutting-edge projects to ensure AI safety and steerability.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 6+ years experience
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This role involves developing iOS applications that contribute to Anthropic's mission of creating interpretable and steerable AI. You'll work on cutting-edge AI technology in a collaborative environment across San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 7+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
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Work on creating interpretable and steerable AI systems that benefit users and society. This role focuses on developing Android applications that contribute to Anthropic's mission of safe AI.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 7+ years experience
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Anthropic is seeking a Security Software Engineer to build and scale their next-generation security analytics infrastructure, including data pipelines and ML-powered detection systems.

• Pays more than 95% of Software Engineer jobs
• 7+ years experience
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This role focuses on developing research tools to advance AI safety and interpretability. You'll work on cutting-edge projects that make AI systems more reliable and beneficial for users and society.

• Pays more than 94% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
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The IP Infrastructure team builds and operates the systems that enable OpenAI to share research and engineering technology securely and reliably with strategic partners. Our work spans continuously running pipelines for model weights, configurations, code, and container images.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
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GTM Growth Engineering builds AI-native products and systems that help OpenAI's go-to-market and B2B marketing organizations operate with greater speed, focus, and leverage.

• Pays more than 92% of Software Engineer jobs
• 4+ years experience
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Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer , the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more.

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
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The AI Acceleration team’s mission is to make Perplexity the best place to build and ship software with AI agents. We build the infrastructure that engineers and agents rely on, and develop new ways for agents to write, test, review, and ship code.

• Pays more than 91% of Software Engineer jobs
• 5+ years experience
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