Research Engineer H-1B Salary

1,028 certified H-1B filings list the job title Research Engineer (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $166,800; the middle half of filings fall between $112,000 and $216,498. The largest sponsor for this title is Meta Platforms, Inc (175 filings).

1,028
certified filings
$166,800
Median base salary
$112,000
25th pct
$216,498
75th pct
$250,000
90th pct
$84,922
10th pct
Estimates from public U.S. Department of Labor records — wages are employer-attested offered wages, not verified salaries paid; counts are filings, not people. Not legal, financial, or career advice. See our disclaimer & terms.
Data: DOL filings FY2023–FY2026 (through June 2026) · Page updated November 2026
$84,922$166,800 median$250,000

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY2026299$194,265
FY2025304$172,716
FY2024230$150,062
FY2023195$140,000

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
Mountain View, CA111$196,000
San Francisco, CA72$219,500
Menlo Park, CA57$220,000
New York, NY54$182,000
Palo Alto, CA35$170,000
Pittsburgh, PA35$158,000
Stanford, CA35$114,725
San Jose, CA25$191,922
Seattle, WA22$172,575
Sunnyvale, CA21$189,700
Redmond, WA19$206,004
Redwood City, CA19$200,000
San Antonio, TX19$93,104
Santa Clara, CA19$170,204
San Mateo, CA16$212,502
Bellevue, WA15$209,993
Cambridge, MA15$95,285
Burlingame, CA12$204,620
Dearborn, MI11$113,580
San Diego, CA10$140,265

Research Engineer salary by employer

Top 50 sponsors by number of filings. Click a column to sort.

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
Meta Platforms, Inc175$209,993
Google LLC139$200,000
The Leland Stanford, Jr University52$115,750
Resolve AI, Inc.32$240,000
FORD MOTOR COMPANY30$114,396
Matic Robots, Inc.21$166,600
Southwest Research Institute21$95,118
Character Technologies Inc.16$307,500
Netflix, Inc.16$238,493
Helm.ai, Inc.12$177,500
HP Inc.12$142,074
CITADEL SECURITIES AMERICAS SERVICES LLC11$250,000
Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.11$134,077
Luma AI, Inc.11$170,000
Skild AI, Inc.10$200,002
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence9$153,000
ByteDance Inc.9$198,680
NYU Grossman School of Medicine9$116,600
The University of Kansas9$86,050
General Hospital Corporation8$57,558
California Institute of Technology7$92,746
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company7$165,000
IBM Corporation7$240,000
University of Illinois7$87,506
University of North Dakota7$73,000
HeyGen Technology Inc.6$180,076
InnoPeak Technology, Inc.6$164,403
Massachusetts Institute of Technology6$90,142
Anthropic, PBC5$138,445
Aquatic Group LLC5$245,000
Granica Computing, Inc.5$190,000
Michigan Technological University5$62,000
Mistral AI, Inc.5$310,000
AIVA Global, Inc.4$110,000
ClarkWestern Dietrich Building Systems, LLC4$79,152
CNH Industrial America LLC4$137,350
Comma.ai, Inc.4$115,500
Genex Systems LLC4$95,000
PlusAI, Inc.4$167,500
Raven Applied Technologies, LLC4$98,325
UT Southwestern Medical Center4$62,091
Vanderbilt University4$76,750
Creatify Lab Inc.3$200,000
Creative Thermal Solutions, Inc.3$67,500
Datology AI, Inc.3$200,000
Epic Games, Inc.3$289,000
Fauna Robotics Inc.3$125,000
Field AI, Inc.3$135,000
FLAWLESS AI INC.3$175,000
Foundation LLM Technologies, Inc.3$150,000

Related job titles

Senior Research Engineer $129,712Research Scientist/Engineer $195,000Research Engineer II $89,616Research Software Engineer $114,000Research Engineer III $114,920Engineer $110,304Research and Development Engineer $101,982Machine Learning Research Engineer $186,956Software Engineer $135,408Data Engineer $105,747

Estimates from public U.S. Department of Labor records — wages are employer-attested offered wages, not verified salaries paid. Not legal, financial, or career advice. Full disclaimer