Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)
$500k – $850k / year
1 year ago
Anthropic salaries
What Anthropic advertises, from 599 pay ranges in its own job posts over the last 12 months (507 on roles open now). These are base salaries as published: no equity, bonus or self-reported numbers.
By role
| Role | Median range | Typical spread | Posts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI & ML Engineer | $320k – $485k | $300k – $850k | 77 |
| Mid-level | $320k – $450k | 55 | |
| Staff & Principal | $325k – $485k | 17 | |
| Manager | $315k – $380k | 5 | |
| Software Engineer | $320k – $485k | $320k – $485k | 60 |
| Mid-level | $300k – $405k | 21 | |
| Staff & Principal | $405k – $485k | 37 | |
| Security Engineer | $320k – $405k | $295k – $455k | 31 |
| Mid-level | $300k – $405k | 21 | |
| Staff & Principal | $320k – $485k | 8 | |
| Legal Counsel | $265k – $335k | $245k – $385k | 30 |
| Mid-level | $265k – $335k | 23 | |
| Manager | $245k – $300k | 3 | |
| Director & VP | $330k – $395k | 3 | |
| Trust & Safety | $290k – $380k | $245k – $485k | 29 |
| Mid-level | $285k – $330k | 20 | |
| Staff & Principal | $320k – $485k | 8 | |
| Account Executive incl. commission | $380k – $450k | $290k – $450k | 24 |
| Program Manager | $343k – $435k | $290k – $435k | 20 |
| DevOps & SRE | $285k – $325k | $230k – $485k | 19 |
| Mid-level | $285k – $325k | 9 | |
| Staff & Principal | $320k – $485k | 5 | |
| Manager | $190k – $230k | 4 | |
| Finance & FP&A | $230k – $300k | $205k – $325k | 19 |
| Mid-level | $240k – $325k | 11 | |
| Manager | $240k – $315k | 3 | |
| Director & VP | $230k – $300k | 3 | |
| Product Manager | $305k – $385k | $305k – $460k | 17 |
| Partnerships incl. commission | $235k – $310k | $215k – $365k | 14 |
| Engineering Manager | $405k – $485k | $405k – $625k | 14 |
| Customer Success Manager | $200k – $320k | $200k – $320k | 13 |
| Mid-level | $200k – $265k | 8 | |
| Manager | $265k – $320k | 3 | |
| Business Operations | $233k – $293k | $190k – $360k | 10 |
| Recruiter | $240k – $298k | $175k – $375k | 10 |
| Accounting | $230k – $300k | $230k – $300k | 9 |
| Revenue Operations | $270k – $310k | $270k – $360k | 7 |
| Marketing Manager | $255k – $320k | $255k – $320k | 5 |
| Data Scientist | $285k – $380k | $285k – $380k | 5 |
| Brand & Communications | $280k – $320k | $265k – $345k | 4 |
| Full Stack Engineer | $310k – $405k | $300k – $405k | 4 |
| Customer Support | $180k – $240k | $180k – $250k | 4 |
| Product Designer | $305k – $385k | $305k – $385k | 4 |
| Product Marketing Manager | $320k – $320k | $320k – $320k | 4 |
| Data Engineer | $320k – $405k | $320k – $405k | 3 |
| Demand Generation | $320k – $400k | $320k – $400k | 3 |
Roles with fewer than 3 published ranges are left out. Level rows appear when a role has ranges at more than one level. “Incl. commission” marks roles whose ranges mostly quote on-target earnings rather than base salary.
By team
| Team | Median range | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | $320k – $485k | 263 |
| Data | $320k – $405k | 30 |
| Other | $320k – $405k | 3 |
| Product | $305k – $385k | 26 |
| Design | $305k – $385k | 6 |
| Sales | $300k – $365k | 65 |
| Operations | $285k – $330k | 68 |
| Marketing | $280k – $320k | 24 |
| Customer Success | $255k – $310k | 36 |
| Finance & Legal | $240k – $315k | 65 |
| People | $240k – $295k | 13 |
Where and how it’s published
| United States | $305k – $385k | 599 |
| United Kingdom | £240k – £270k | 55 |
| Europe (euro) | €188k – €220k | 24 |
| Remote roles | $320k – $405k | 60 |
| On-site or hybrid | $305k – $385k | 539 |
- 98% of its 515 open US jobs publish a range (several US states require one).
- 43% of its 134 open jobs outside the US do.
- A typical range’s top is 1.3× its bottom. That’s fairly narrow, so the range is a good guide to an offer.
How Anthropic compares
AI & ML Engineer: Anthropic’s median midpoint is 48% higher than the SaaS median
| Company | Median range | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $320k – $485k | 77 |
| OpenAI | $266k – $385k | 93 |
| Scale AI | $216k – $270k | 25 |
| Decagon | $200k – $400k | 8 |
| Harvey | $193k – $325k | 7 |
| All SaaS companies we track | $230k – $315k | 426 |
Software Engineer: Anthropic’s median midpoint is 68% higher than the SaaS median
| Company | Median range | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $320k – $485k | 60 |
| OpenAI | $266k – $445k | 113 |
| Harvey | $220k – $320k | 37 |
| Sierra | $180k – $390k | 19 |
| Decagon | $200k – $400k | 15 |
| All SaaS companies we track | $194k – $285k | 781 |
Security Engineer: Anthropic’s median midpoint is 53% higher than the SaaS median
| Company | Median range | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $320k – $405k | 31 |
| OpenAI | $266k – $445k | 24 |
| Harvey | $220k – $330k | 9 |
| Scale AI | $198k – $297k | 7 |
| Cohere | $180k – $385k | 5 |
| All SaaS companies we track | $194k – $280k | 217 |
Companies in the same industry are listed first. Each needs 3 or more published ranges for the role.
Best-paid open roles at Anthropic
All open jobs →Engineering Manager, Research Data Platform
$405k – $850k / year
3 months ago
Engineering Manager, Research Productivity
$405k – $850k / year
5 months ago
Performance Engineer
$280k – $850k / year
2 years ago
Performance Engineer, GPU
$280k – $850k / year
1 year ago
Performance Engineer, Inference Engine
$350k – $850k / year
1 month ago
Performance Engineer, Inference Systems
$350k – $850k / year
5 months ago
Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer
$500k – $850k / year
11 months ago
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)
$500k – $850k / year
3 months ago
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)
$500k – $850k / year
4 months ago
Questions about pay at Anthropic
How much does Anthropic pay?
Across 599 pay ranges in its job posts over the last year, Anthropic’s median published range is $305k – $385k (United States). Pay varies by role and level; see the tables above.
Where does this data come from?
Only from pay ranges Anthropic publishes in its own job posts, read hourly from its hiring system and kept for 12 months after a job closes. No surveys or self-reported salaries.
Does it include equity, bonus or commission?
Usually not. Published ranges are mostly base salary. Sales roles often add commission, and many companies add equity, so total pay is higher. Self-reported sites show total compensation, which is why their figures differ.
Why don’t all jobs show a salary?
Pay-transparency laws require ranges in job posts in US states such as California, New York, Colorado and Washington, but not in most other countries yet, so coverage outside the US is lower.