Principal Engineer jobs in the USA

171 open Principal Engineer jobs in the USA right now, 62 of them posted in the last 30 days, at 78 companies. Numbers from the job boards and company careers pages GoJob.now reads, updated November 2026.

171open jobs
285,000 USD median posted pay a year
33%of ads show pay
22%remote

Pay

Half of the 57 ads that posted pay offer between 257,000 USD and 310,000 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 285,000 USD.

33% 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. Marvell Semiconductor 13 open
  2. Asm 12 open
  3. Westinghouse Electric Company 9 open
  4. AbbVie 9 open
  5. Nagarro 8 open
  6. Databricks 6 open
  7. Shield AI 6 open
  8. Samsung Semiconductor 6 open
  9. Intel 5 open
  10. Klaviyo 4 open

Skills the ads ask for

ArchitectureRoadmapsPythonSystem designPeople managementAWSObservabilityMachine learningAI coding assistantsAI agentsEnglishStakeholder management

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