Principal Software Engineer Salaries in California

Proven ability to lead technical strategy and cross-team architecture efforts. As a Principal Engineer, you will set the technical direction for systems that…

$165,220 - $283,234 a year

Experience with or strong interest in AI or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features).

$250,000 - $380,000 a year

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3 to 5 years of experience using open-source, AI-assisted engineering tools and development workflows in real-world, production-scale environments.

$200,000 a year

Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, data science organizations, business groups, on end to end solutions.

$264,000 - $379,500 a year

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Cross-Team Leadership: Exercise cross-team technical authority,…

$204,000 - $225,000 a year

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in…

$110,000 - $286,000 a year