Salaries / Mid-Level

Mid-Level Salaries

Live base-salary benchmarks for mid-level roles at companies building the future.

6,068 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 6, 2026

Median base salary

$140k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$108k–$175k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

6,068

53% of 11,548 live openings

Companies disclosing

407

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Research Engineer, RL Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$500k–$850k / year · USD
2
Research Engineer, Domain Scaling

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$350k–$850k / year · USD
3
Software Engineer, ML Networking

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$280k–$850k / year · USD
4
Software Engineer - Kernels

MatX · Mountain View, CA · Mid-Level

$250k–$600k / year · USD
5
Member of Technical Staff, Deeptune

Mercor · New York, NY · Mid-Level

$220k–$600k / year · USD
6
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$293k–$585k / year · USD
7$295k–$555k / year · USD
8$295k–$555k / year · USD
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Methodology

BuildList pulls salary ranges from company applicant tracking systems hourly. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

Non-USD pay is converted to USD, and hourly, weekly, and monthly pay is annualized. Figures are medians and quartiles of each posting's range midpoint, weighted by currently open roles.

Base salary only. Equity and bonus are excluded. Most groups require at least 30 salaried openings; featured company benchmarks require at least eight.

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