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Test, Quality, & Reliability Salaries

Live base-salary benchmarks for test, quality, & reliability roles at companies building the future.

1,658 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$143k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$108k–$175k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

1,658

58% of 2,841 live openings

Companies disclosing

196

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Senior Director, Reliability Engineering

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Director

$332k–$500k
2
Hardware System Diagnostic Engineer

MatX · Mountain View, CA · Senior

$250k–$475k
3
Advanced Packaging Reliability Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$266k–$445k
4
Design Verification Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$226k–$445k
5
Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Data Center Power & Cooling

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$320k–$405k
6
Senior Manager, Product Reliability

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Manager

$256k–$385k
7
Lead Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Senior

$200k–$380k
8
Senior System Level Test Engineer - LPU

Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA · Senior

$196k–$368k
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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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