22 Remote Roles Paying $300K+: OpenAI Security Engineer Tops Out at $510K
lennysan · x · 2026-10-29
Lenny's Jobs rounded up 22 remote roles paying $300K+.
- OpenAI: Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security ($401K–$510K); ChatGPT Performance Engineer ($347K–$445K); Research Lead, Policy Communications ($347K–$385K)
- Anthropic: Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector ($405K–$485K); Data Center Architect ($320K–$405K)
- Other AI roles: Reddit Sr. Staff ML Engineer, GenAI Platform ($292.5K–$409.5K); Spotify Sr. Staff ML Engineer ($281.2K–$401.7K); Sequen AI Staff+ Research Eng, Recursive Self-Improvement ($350K–$400K); Runway Research Engineer ($270K–$370K); Hightouch Engineering Manager, Agents ($220K–$400K)
- Non-AI: Polymarket backend, Affirm PM, HubSpot VP Growth Marketing, and more
Notably, AI companies' security and infrastructure roles dominate the top of the pay range.
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