Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $272,000 |
| Median | $287,000 |
| 75th percentile | $306,000 |
| Lowest listing | $170,000 |
| Highest listing | $517,000 |
| Listings counted | 27 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Veeam Software | 3 | $301,000 |
| OpenAI | 3 | $287,000 |
| 1X | 3 | $275,000 |
| Pure Storage | 3 | $272,000 |
| Zoox | 3 | $269,000 |
| NVIDIA | 2 | $310,000 |
| Waymo | 2 | $304,000 |
| Workday | 2 | $261,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 26 | $287,000 | $272,000 to $304,000 |
Veeam is expanding its Federal go-to-market strategy in advance of FedRAMP authorization, targeted by the end of calendar year 2026.
Our partner is looking for a Principal Presales, Network Systems Engineer based in the United States.
The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment.
Lead complex enterprise pre-sales engagements, including discovery, solution design, architecture validation, and technical closure. Translate business objectives into secure, scalable, and resilient technical architectures for enterprise customers.
As a Senior Sales Systems Engineer , you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to some of Veeam’s largest and most strategic customers.
OpenAI · 1mo ago
Guided by OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, our team combines world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care deeply about creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology.
Lead cross-functional debug of critical system-level issues across hardware and firmware domains focusing on high-speed interconnects and fabrics. Perform hands-on root cause analysis of failures observed during system validation, production, or in-field operation.
Act as the primary technical support for L10/L11 rack-level integration for our Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) responsible for next-generation data center products.
We are seeking a motivated engineer to join the DRAM Systems Engineering team, focusing on the development, evaluation, and optimization of next-generation memory systems for AI accelerators.
That responsibility extends to the companies we acquire. Their people, devices, and systems have to come into Anthropic securely. You'll own the IT side of Anthropic's acquisitions: due diligence, integration planning, and integration.
The Consumer Devices team at OpenAI builds end-to-end hardware and software systems that bring AI into the physical world.
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.
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.
The Data Platform and Observability Engineering (DPOE) team is building Workday's next-generation, multi-petabyte scale Observability Platform.
The Data Platform and Observability Engineering (DPOE) team is building Workday’s next-generation data-product platform the compute, storage, catalog, orchestration, governance, and developer workflows that engineering and analytics teams use to create and operate production…
Drive the hardware engineering lifecycle for Everpure’s Hyperscale Line of Business, shaping high-performance, energy-efficient storage architectures tailored directly to hyperscale partners .
Pure Storage · 1mo ago
Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.
As a Principal Hardware Systems Engineer within Everpure’s EXA Hardware Engineering organization, you will serve as a primary technical authority driving the architectural vision, end-to-end design, and system-level validation of our next-generation enterprise and cloud-scale…
As a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer working on Autonomy Verification, you are responsible for verifying that the Nuro Driver is safe to deploy in our target ODD and complies with the rules of the road.
We're looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team.
The System Design and Mission Assurance (SDMA) team plays a foundational role in the company's success, responsible for constructing the safety case and fail-operational design for our autonomous driving robots before public road deployment.
GTM Systems builds and operates the tools that help our teams serve customers. We turn operational needs into reliable workflows, integrations, and automation so support teams can focus on helping customers.
The Core team builds and owns the core C++ infrastructure that NEO’s entire stack runs on, from sensor pipelines, motor control interfaces, networking, inter-process communication, and the foundational libraries that ship on every robot.
The Core team builds and owns the C++ infrastructure that NEO's entire stack runs on - sensor pipelines, motor control interfaces, networking, inter-process communication, and the foundational libraries that ship on every robot.
The Core team builds and owns the core C++ infrastructure that NEO’s entire stack runs on sensor pipelines, motor control interfaces, inter-process communication, and the foundational libraries that ship on every robot.
You'll own a wide part of how agents work: how they run, remember and use tools and models, how they connect to other systems, the infrastructure underneath and the product on top, always with reliability, monitoring and security in mind.
Focus on understanding system behavior across multiple layers, identifying performance bottlenecks, and driving improvements that shape how our clusters are built, operated, tuned, and validated.
The median Systems Engineer salary in our $300k+ listings is $287,000 a year, based on 27 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $272,000 to $306,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $300k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Systems Engineer roles overall.
Individual $300k+ Systems Engineer listings range from $170,000 to $517,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $272,000 and the 75th percentile is $306,000.
The companies with the most open $300k+ Systems Engineer listings are Veeam Software (3 listings, median $301,000), OpenAI (3 listings, median $287,000), 1X (3 listings, median $275,000), Pure Storage (3 listings, median $272,000) and Zoox (3 listings, median $269,000).
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.
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