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Electrical & Firmware in Austin Salaries

Live posted base-salary benchmarks for electrical & firmware roles in Austin.

73 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 6, 2026

Median base salary

$200k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$155k–$220k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

73

24% of 303 live openings

Companies disclosing

9

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Distinguished Engineer - Memory Architecture

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Staff / Principal

$320k–$489k / year · USD
2$272k–$431k / year · USD
3
Principal System Power Management and Performance Architect

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Staff / Principal

$232k–$368k / year · USD
4
Senior Design Automation Engineer, Applied AI

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Senior

$196k–$368k / year · USD
5
Senior Software Engineer - CUDA and Unified Memory

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Senior

$184k–$357k / year · USD
6
Senior SoC Architect, RAS

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Senior

$184k–$357k / year · USD
7
Principal Design Verification Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

SpaceX · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$210k–$355k / year · USD
8
Senior Power Integrity Methodology CAD Engineer

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Senior

$196k–$311k / 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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