Chief Engineer jobs in the USA

61 open Chief Engineer jobs in the USA right now, 10 of them posted in the last 30 days, at 17 companies. Numbers from the job boards and company careers pages GoJob.now reads, updated November 2026.

61open jobs
256,000 USD median posted pay a year
84%of ads show pay
8%remote

Pay

Half of the 51 ads that posted pay offer between 223,000 USD and 285,000 USD a year (the middle of each posted range, as the ad states it: gross pay for employment, before VAT for B2B). The median is 256,000 USD.

84% of the open ads show pay at all. Ads without pay are counted in the totals, not in the range.

How the jobs are set up

Companies hiring most

  1. Anduril Industries 18 open
  2. Anduril 18 open
  3. Fluidstack 4 open
  4. Zone 5 Technologies 3 open
  5. Shield AI 2 open
  6. CHAOS Industries 2 open
  7. True Anomaly 2 open
  8. Voyager Technologies, Inc. 2 open
  9. Dexterra 2 open
  10. Astro Mechanica 1 open

Skills the ads ask for

Computer visionArchitectureSourcingPrototypingRoadmapsSystem designAgilePeople managementMachine learningEnglishStakeholder managementBudgeting

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