Engineer I salary: median $100,500 a year
Engineer I listings that state pay run from $92,000 to $123,500 for the middle half, based on 26 current job listings. 120 engineer i roles are open now.
Engineer I pay range
From 26 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars.
- Lower quarter
- $92,000
- Median
- $100,500
- Upper quarter
- $123,500
Do AI skills change engineer i pay?
For Engineering roles in general, as of November 9, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for engineer i alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.
Among Engineering listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +19.1% (about $32.5k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.
- Listings that ask for an AI skill
- $209,000
- median, from 3,968 paid listings
- Listings that never mention AI
- $152,500
- median, from 4,882 paid listings
Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.
See the AI-skill pay table for every function · Check your own pay against these listings
More pay data: Engineering pay by level, skills that pay more and pay by employer size.
Open engineer i jobs
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- Engineer I
Allete · Duluth, Minnesota
Nov 10, 2026
- Engineer I - Power
Granite Construction · Elk Grove Village, Illinois
Nov 9, 2026
- Engineer I
Dreamscape Hospitality · Houston, TX
Nov 8, 2026
- Engineer I
Parker · Mcminnville, OR
Nov 8, 2026
- Engineer I
State of Delaware · DE
Nov 7, 2026
- Engineer I, Electrical Integration & Test - New Grad (R5136)
Shieldai · Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2026
- Engineer I, Quality (R5976)
Shieldai · Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2026
- Engineer I, Montclair Plaza - Full Time
Macy's · Montclair, CA, United States
Nov 6, 2026
- Engineer I - Forward Deployed Engineer
GSK · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Nov 6, 2026
- Engineer I
RDQ · Denver, CO
$60k–$75k · Nov 6, 2026
- Engineer I - CC
Pike Health Services · Raleigh, NC, United States
Nov 6, 2026
- Engineer I, Firmware Development
Landis+Gyr · Lafayette, IN, US
Nov 6, 2026
- Engineer I - Design
Microchip Technology · Hauppauge, NY
$70k–$143k · Nov 5, 2026
- Engineer I: Engineering Development Program - Materials & Processes Engineering and Mechanical Disciplines (Onsite)
RTX · east hartford, Connecticut, United States of America
Nov 5, 2026
- Engineer I
Matrix PDM Engineering · Pittsburgh, PA
Nov 5, 2026
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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)
Related salaries
Engineer I salary questions
- How much does a engineer i make?
- Among 26 open engineer i listings that state pay, the median is $100,500 a year, and half of listings fall between $92,000 and $123,500.
- Where does this engineer i pay data come from?
- From current job listings on employers’ own career sites that state a pay range. Hourly pay is converted at 2,080 hours a year, and a listing’s midpoint is used. Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
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