Senior Staff Engineer jobs: 93 open roles
Open senior staff engineer jobs taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Listings that state pay show a median of $240,000 a year.

The market for senior staff engineer work
Every figure names its source. Skills and AI-skill shares describe the whole Engineering function this title sits in.
- Verified open senior staff engineer jobs
- 93
- Median pay in listings that state it
- $240,000
- Engineering openings that ask for AI skills
- 8%
Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.
See the detail →Source: NextChapter verified openings.
Source: NextChapter verified openings.
Skills most often named in openings
- 1. python10%
- 2. project management5%
- 3. linux4%
- 4. c++4%
- 5. aws4%
- 6. agile4%
- 7. supply chain4%
- 8. procurement3%
AI skills worth building for this work
- 1. ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- 2. LLM application engineering
- 3. RAG and vector search
- 4. Model fine-tuning
- 5. Model training and deep learning
- 6. MLOps
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Open senior staff engineer jobs
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- Senior Staff Engineer, Environmental Control Systems (RX) (R5905)
Shieldai · Dallas, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, PCB Design (R5752)
Shieldai · Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing
Shieldai · Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Environmental Control Systems - Ranger (R6350)
Shieldai · Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Flight Control Actuation Systems - Ranger (R6327)
Shieldai · Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Flight Control Actuation Systems (RX) (R5999)
Shieldai · Dallas, TX
Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Big Data Infrastructure
Stripe · San Francsico
Nov 5, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering
Waymo · Mountain View, CA
$251k–$310k · Nov 4, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer
Aspect Software · Louisville, KY
Nov 4, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer - AI Engineering
GE Vernova · Niskayuna, NY
Nov 3, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Escalation Support Engineering
Celestica · Richardson, TX, US
Oct 31, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer - Turbine Aerodynamics
General Electric · Evendale, Ohio, United States of America
Oct 30, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Program / Project Management - MTL
Celestica · Austin, TX, US
Oct 30, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems
Amplify Management · Remote - United States
$170k–$190k · Oct 26, 2026
- Senior Staff Engineer, Hardware Design
Celestica · Austin, TX, US
Oct 25, 2026
Showing the newest 15 of about 93 verified open jobs here. Search all jobs
Senior Staff Engineer salary
The middle half of senior staff engineer listings that state pay run from $217,000 to $265,000. See the full senior staff engineer salary breakdown.
Engineering jobs in the rankings
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Where senior staff engineer jobs are
- California35
- Washington19
- Texas12
- District of Columbia5
- Kentucky2
- Massachusetts2
- Michigan2
- Illinois2
- Ohio1
- Georgia1
- New York1
- Idaho1
Between jobs? Unemployment benefits and severance rules in these states, or in every state.
Senior Staff Engineer jobs by city and state
Employers hiring senior staff engineers
- Shield AI 32
- Celestica 6
- Shieldai 6
- Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd./ADR 4
- Infineon Technologies Americas 4
- Samsung Semiconductor 4
- Infineon Technologies 3
- Samsung HME America 2
- Stryker 2
- Qualcomm Inc/De 2
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