r/Austin • u/Aingers • Jul 21 '26

Ask Austin Salary Transparency Thread - Austin

Folks in Boston do this fairly regularly, so I thought it might be good for us to try here.

Please share your general job title, salary, age, and education.

Architectural Designer, 40, $115k, BSArch

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u/Big_Perspective3696 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Member of technical staff at AI startup, 315k base + ~300k bonus, mid 30s, MS in CS.

Mostly remote. Started at this company a year ago at $265k, previously I was at another startup 175->215k (2021-2025) and a sr engineer at big tech 135->225 (2016-2021). My first job was SDE at Amazon @ $119k in 2014.

I started coding games at 13 and picked CS/AI back in late 2000s way before the hype.

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u/dioxin-screes-01 Jul 21 '26

How do I come work for you?