Salaries / Transportation

Transportation Salaries

Live base-salary benchmarks from open roles at transportation companies building the future.

1,768 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$156k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$101k–$216k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

1,768

81% of 2,189 live openings

Companies disclosing

15

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Director AV Product Engineering

Wayve · United Kingdom · Director

$440k–$580k
2
Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$407k–$512k
3
Director of Sales

Parallel Systems · Los Angeles, CA · Director

$180k–$500k
4
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Geometric Vision

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$407k–$460k
5
Principal Engineer, Embedded Vehicle Software

Wayve · Sunnyvale, CA · Staff / Principal

$348k–$458k
6
Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Staff / Principal

$349k–$431k
7
Director, Foundation Model Data Recipes

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Director

$349k–$431k
8
Principal Software Engineer, Perception Pretraining

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Staff / Principal

$349k–$431k
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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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