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Seed-Stage Salaries

Live base-salary benchmarks from job postings at Seed companies building the future.

441 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$158k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$130k–$195k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

441

44% of 1,003 live openings

Companies disclosing

65

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Engineering Manager

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Manager

$400k–$500k
2
Software Engineer, Systems Generalist

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$350k–$475k
3
Site Reliability Engineer, Tinker

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$350k–$475k
4
Research, RL Scaling

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$350k–$475k
5
ML Infrastructure Engineer

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$350k–$475k
6
Research, Safety

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$350k–$475k
7
Software Engineer, Evaluation Platform / Infra

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$300k–$475k
8
Software Engineer, Research Tools

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$300k–$475k
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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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