C++ Engineer Salary

Based on 30 C++ listings with published compensation (40 total jobs)

$203k
Average
$100k
Low Posted
30
With Salary
$440k
High Posted
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C++ engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $100k to $440k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping C++ features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 30 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 40 total open C++ roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

senior
12 jobs
$214k avg
mid
12 jobs
$169k avg
lead
11 jobs
$250k avg
junior
5 jobs
$198k avg

Top Paying Companies for C++

C++ Jobs by City

Costa Mesa, CA
10 jobs
$197k avg
Ann Arbor, MI
6 jobs
$158k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
3 jobs
$204k avg
Palo Alto, CA
3 jobs
$310k avg
Los Angeles, CA
2 jobs
$150k avg
Germany
2 jobs
Foster City, CA
2 jobs
$232k avg
Amsterdam, Netherlands
1 jobs
Czech Republic
1 jobs
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
1 jobs

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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