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Electrical & Firmware Salaries

Live base-salary benchmarks for electrical & firmware roles at companies building the future.

1,917 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$175k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$147k–$210k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

1,917

58% of 3,316 live openings

Companies disclosing

230

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Power Architect

MatX · Mountain View, CA · Senior

$275k–$600k
2
Silicon Architect, AI Accelerator

MatX · Mountain View, CA · Senior

$275k–$600k
3
Architect

MatX · Mountain View, CA · Senior

$275k–$600k
4
SOC Architect

MatX · Mountain View, CA · Staff / Principal

$275k–$600k
5
PCB Layout Engineer - AI Compute Hardware

MatX · Mountain View, CA · Senior

$250k–$600k
6
Hardware / Software CoDesign Engineer - 3P

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$342k–$555k
7
Data Center Design Engineer, Electrical - Industrial Compute

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Staff / Principal

$360k–$530k
8
Director, Tegra Firmware

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Director

$320k–$489k
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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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