Hardware Engineer Salary in San Francisco (2026)

Top-paying companies in San Francisco

Median of disclosed midpoints; companies with at least 3 disclosed salaries.

Recent Hardware Engineer jobs with disclosed pay

• Staff Hardware Design Engineer — Fastly · Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA · $196k–$235k
• Helix AI Engineer, Embedded Android Systems — Figureai · San Jose, CA · $150k–$400k
• Mechanical Engineering Design Lead — Ideo · San Francisco, CA · $110k–$130k
• Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Ethernet Retimers — Asteralabs · San Jose, California, United States · $133k–$185k
• Staff Mechanical Engineer, Dimensional Management — Formenergy · Berkeley, CA · $148k–$194k
• Executive Assistant, Chief Hardware Officer & Head of Autonomy — Flyzipline · South San Francisco, California, USA · $150k–$200k
• Hardware Product Manager, Consumer Commerce — Openai · San Francisco · $347k–$385k
• Staff Hardware System Validation Engineer — Aurorainnovation · Mountain View, California · $154k–$224k
• Technical Program Manager, Hardware Chips Development — Openai · San Francisco · $302k–$445k
• Embedded Software Engineer, Laser Mesh Routing (Starlink) — Spacex · Palo Alto, CA · $135k–$160k

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Methodology

Figures are computed from base-salary ranges that employers disclose directly on live job postings tracked by ForgeApply (as of 2026-07-14). For each posting we take the midpoint of the disclosed range, then report the median and the 25th–75th percentile band across all matching postings. Postings without disclosed pay are excluded, which can skew results toward companies and states with pay transparency requirements. This is marketplace data about current openings, not an estimate of total compensation or of any individual offer.

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