Role category
Staff Engineer roles
Staff and Principal Engineer searches we run typically come from Series B–public-stage companies hiring their first or second senior IC. Compensation usually lands in the $260K–$420K total comp range with leadership-track or deep-IC paths.
25 open roles
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States$140K–$250KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff - Model Optimization and Inference
Seattle, Washington, United States$250K–$350KView roleTransparent Search Group
Senior/Staff Software Engineer
Remote, United States$150K–$350KRemote OKView roleTransparent Search Group
Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer, Agent Harness
San Francisco, California, United States$200K–$300KView roleTransparent Search Group
Senior/Staff Security Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States$200K–$300KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff, Head of Quality
San Francisco, California, United States$180K–$280KView roleTransparent Search Group
Principal Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States$200K–$325KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed
New York, New York, United States$200K–$280KView roleTransparent Search Group
Staff Software Engineer - Biller Workflows
San Francisco, California, United States$210K–$275KView roleTransparent Search Group
Staff Software Engineer, Accounts & Ledgering
New York, New York, United States$210K–$275KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco, California, United States$200K–$300KView roleTransparent Search Group
Deployment Strategist (Founding Principal)
San Francisco, California, United States$200K–$250KView roleTransparent Search Group
Staff Backend Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States$225K–$300KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff - Internal AI Agents
New York, New York, United States$150K–$300KView roleTransparent Search Group
Staff Systems Engineer
New York, New York, United States$280K–$380KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems
Menlo Park, California, United States$180K–$230KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff - Applied ML
New York, New York, United States$175K–$350KView roleTransparent Search Group
Staff Product Engineer
New York, New York, United States$280K–$380KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff - Full Stack
United States$150K–$230KRemote OKView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff, Inference Systems
Palo Alto, California, United States$230K–$350KView roleTransparent Search Group
Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Interactives)
United States$180K–$250KRemote OKView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco, California, United States$120K–$190KView roleTransparent Search Group
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco, California, United States$160K–$220KView roleTransparent Search Group
Senior Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco, California, United States$225K–$300KView roleTransparent Search Group
Senior/Staff Engineer
New York, New York, United States$200K–$280KView role
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