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Senior Salaries

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

9,166 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$185k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$153k–$222k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

9,166

61% of 14,908 live openings

Companies disclosing

405

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$500k–$850k
2
Research Engineer, Computer Use

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$500k–$850k
3
Research Engineer, Universes

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$500k–$850k
4
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$500k–$850k
5
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$500k–$850k
6
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$500k–$850k
7
Research Scientist, Interpretability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$850k
8
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Vision

Anthropic · New York City, NY · Senior

$350k–$850k
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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. Groups with fewer than 30 salaried openings are withheld.

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