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Staff Engineer in Santa Clara, CA

Job title · Santa Clara, California

Job title as filed
Staff Engineer
City
Santa Clara, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
72
Median offered wage
$184,080
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$184,080certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Staff Engineer" and a worksite in Santa Clara.

Applications by fiscal year

1020FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
1020FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202220
FY20238
FY202415
FY202516
FY2026*13
Certified (decided applications)
98.6%
Employers filing
25
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Tenstorrent USA Inc.13
  2. Aviatrix Systems, Inc.9
  3. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.7
  4. Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.7
  5. Eightfold AI Inc.7
  6. Upscale AI, Inc3
  7. Achronix Semiconductor Corporation3
  8. Granite River Labs Inc.3
  9. Netskope, Inc.2
  10. Xmotors.Ai, Inc.2
  11. Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc.2
  12. Nextnav LLC1
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $184,080; middle half $150,030 to $213,380 · median prevailing wage $179,566 (marker) · 69 applications.

$120k$150k$180k$210k$240k
$120k$150k$180k$210k$240k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I3
  2. Level II18
  3. Level III23
  4. Level IV18
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Staff Engineer" appears on 2,456 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 608 employers for worksites in 403 cities; the median offered wage is $157,000, so the median in Santa Clara is 17.2% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
2,456
Employers nationwide
608
Cities with filings
403
National median offered wage
$157,000
Share of national filings in Santa Clara
2.9%
Cities with the most applications for Staff Engineer
  1. San Jose, CA350
  2. Austin, TX208
  3. Palo Alto, CA119
  4. New York City, NY107
  5. San Diego, CA97
  6. Santa Clara, CA72
  7. San Francisco, CA72
  8. Houston, TX59
  9. Sunnyvale, CA54
  10. Seattle, WA37
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The Santa Clara job market

Santa Clara has 33,150 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 7,478 job titles and 2,175 employers; "Staff Engineer" ranks #54 by applications, with 0.2% of them.

Applications in Santa Clara, all job titles
33,150
Job titles filed
7,478
Rank of Staff Engineer in Santa Clara
54
Median offered wage in Santa Clara, all job titles
$163,031
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Santa Clara
  1. Software Engineer2,663
  2. Component Design Engineer950
  3. Software Development Engineer II635
  4. Senior Software Engineer609
  5. Hardware Engineer, Electronics460
  6. Staff Software Engineer354
  7. Engineer Senior Systems Software317
  8. Process Engineer276
  9. Principal Software Engineer248
  10. Software Development Engineer I231
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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