Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $188,000 |
| Median | $200,000 |
| 75th percentile | $232,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $517,000 |
| Listings counted | 171 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 87 | $198,000 |
| Lead | 5 | $200,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Pure Storage | 21 | $187,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 13 | $195,000 |
| NVIDIA | 9 | $213,000 |
| Esri | 9 | $198,000 |
| Zoox | 7 | $248,000 |
| Cloudflare | 7 | $200,000 |
| OpenAI | 5 | $286,000 |
| Waymo | 5 | $257,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 144 | $201,000 | $190,000 to $240,000 |
| Canada | USD | 7 | $194,000 | $183,000 to $210,000 |
BAE Systems is looking for a an experienced, self-motivated Senior Systems Engineer to work on a multi-disciplinary team in an Agile, fast-paced development environment.
Build, manage, and support complex application stacks on Windows Server. Administer on-premises Active Directory (domain controllers, Group Policy, identity, and access). Deploy, configure, and support VMware vSphere technologies, including vCenter and ESXi.
Relativity Space · 4mo ago
The Stage Fluids team designs and delivers the propellant, pressurant, pneumatics, and other fluid systems that turn structures into functioning rockets.
Analyzes user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities.
We’re looking for an IT Engineer to design the systems behind how people at Baseten get access, stay secure, and move through their time here.
Lead systems engineering and requirements development/management for a team building a space-based sensing platform. Architect and drive detailed analysis to derive command and control, data transport, and processing requirements.
Analyzes user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities.
RCT is seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Technical Lead to lead a 200+ person technical development program supporting enterprise entitlement, Identity and Access Management (IdAM/ICAM), authentication, authorization, and digital policy management solutions.
Linux Infrastructure Engineering: Maintain, tune, and secure mission-critical Linux operating systems across production and non-production environments.
Analyze future DDR/LPDDR/HBM technologies to determine optimum performance, power, function and RAS in memory for Next generation SOC and Systems.
Develop use cases and system requirements for L3 and L4 autonomous driving products based on customer needs, traffic regulations, certification standards, and industry guidelines.
Work with us to translate driving-feature needs and safety analysis into world-model requirements, performance targets and error budgets. Investigate real-world failure modes and develop metrics, scenarios and tests that expose gaps across operating conditions.
Lead End-to-End Hardware Qualification: Plan, implement, and automate hardware design validation projects in partnership with hyperscale customers and ODM/JDM vendors to guarantee production readiness, signal integrity, and long-term reliability .
Anduril Industries · 1mo ago
Anduril's Warfighter Systems division is building the next generation of counter-UAS engagement systems.
Anduril Industries · 10d ago
Anduril Maritime is seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Battery Systems Engineer to join our Enabling Technology team and make a direct impact on the performance and safety of our cutting-edge maritime products.
At Anduril, our Battlespace Awareness Command and Control Software team specializes in solving complex, real-world problems through cutting-edge algorithms and intelligent software integrations.
Anduril Industries · 11d ago
Anduril's Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers.
Anduril's Maritime Division is transforming American sea power to meet the defining national security challenges of our era and secure our future of maritime dominance.
Anduril's Maritime Division is transforming American sea power to meet the defining national security challenges of our era and secure our future of maritime dominance.
The Technology Security and Foreign Disclosure (TSFD) team determines whether Anduril's capabilities can be exported, to whom, and on what authority.
The Air Dominance and Strike Mechanical Engineering Team is responsible for designing and integrating advanced hardware for Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms .
We’re seeking an IT Systems Engineer to join our growing IT team. You’ll own the architecture and automation behind the systems our employees rely on every day: identity, device management, endpoint security, and the tooling that ties them together.
We are looking for an engineer who can walk into messy, cross-functional workflows and turn them into clean, automated systems that scale.
Cubist Systematic Strategies · 8d ago
Strengthen our firm’s collaboration environment through automation, secure integrations, governance, and reliability improvements that support global productivity. Lead data migrations by planning, executing, validating, and reporting on adoption to support team transitions.
Space Systems Integration · 3d ago
Oversee the development of spacecraft vendor flight software systems across bus subsystems, payload interfaces, and ground segment overlaps. Work side-by-side with spacecraft vendors, as required, to aid in their development processes and resolve flight software concerns.
Anduril Industries · 17d ago
The Connected Warfare division builds systems to support global command and control missions. We create joint, time-sensitive, multi-domain, ubiquitous, connected mesh ecosystems.
The Space Imaging team is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team. The Imaging Space team is responsible for system architecture definition, trade analyses, and modeling/validating system performance for spaceborne EO/IR systems.
Anduril’s Air Defense team builds autonomous robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky.
The Maneuver Dominance team is building Thunder - an autonomous attack rotorcraft built to fight alongside crewed combat aviation to deliver overwhelming mass effects deep beyond the front lines. Autonomy is only as good as the link that carries it.
The MITRE CorporationNew · 1d ago
At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services.
Own Salesforce as the engineering system of record for revenue: data model, custom objects and fields, flows and automation, validation rules, field governance, and access control. Salesforce is the source of truth — everything else flows into or out of it.
At Lucid, charging is not just a feature - it is a defining product attribute that blends high-voltage technology, system architecture, and customer experience into a seamless, industry-leading vehicle capability.
At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward.
The Senior Battery Systems Engineer leads the cross-functional integration of new OEM battery packs into the stationary energy storage system architecture within the Energy Storage engineering function.
Scale AI is hiring a highly skilled foundational IT Systems Engineer for our Public Sector IT team to design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure that empowers employees to do their best work.
Own and support middleware platforms, NGINX, and Apache HTTP Server across lower and production environments. Design and operate multi-tenant reverse proxy solutions, especially using NGINX.
Northrop Grumman · 6d ago
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available. CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes. At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come.
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Develop a real understanding of what drives each institution: research priorities, funding cycles, capital versus operating constraints, and who actually makes the decision.
Develop a real understanding of what drives each institution: research priorities, funding cycles, capital versus operating constraints, and who actually makes the decision.
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Pure Storage · 1mo ago
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
Pure Storage · 1mo ago
Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
As a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer supporting U.S. Air Force and federal defense customers, you will help translate mission and technology requirements into innovative data-storage solutions.
Pure Storage · 1mo ago
Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is hiring a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support our Higher Education business, with a focus on R1 research universities. R1 institutions are not one customer.
AMHS Equipment Ownership: Serve as the technical expert responsible for ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and continuous improvement of the AMHS within the manufacturing environment.
We're seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own client engineering end to end - Jamf, Intune, Autopilot, Okta device trust, and more, and the automation that ties them together.
The median Systems Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $200,000 a year, based on 171 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $188,000 to $232,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Systems Engineer roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Systems Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $517,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $188,000 and the 75th percentile is $232,000.
Median pay by level in our $200k+ listings: senior $198,000 (87 listings), lead $200,000 (5 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Systems Engineer listings are Pure Storage (21 listings, median $187,000), Anduril Industries (13 listings, median $195,000), NVIDIA (9 listings, median $213,000), Esri (9 listings, median $198,000) and Zoox (7 listings, median $248,000).
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.
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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