Research Compensation Across Frontier Tech

Median total compensation by company, ranked. Sourced from disclosed salary bands on active job postings + verified community submissions across space, AI, robotics, and defense.

Company	Median TC	Median Base	Locations	Reports
Parasma AI	$1.0M	$1.0M	1	1
Aaru FRONTIER	$525K	$250K	1	1
Miso Labs AI	$450K	$400K	1	1
Thinking Machines Lab AI	$413K	$350K	1	3
Theorem AI	$400K	$300K	1	1
Legion Health AI	$400K	$300K	0	21
OpenAI AI	$370K	$295K	2	35
Anthropic AI	$363K	$320K	2	14
Talkiatry FRONTIER	$350K	$325K	0	1
Runway AI	$330K	$280K	0	9
Perplexity AI	$313K	$220K	1	3
Envoy AI	$300K	$200K	1	2
Udio AI	$300K	$250K	0	1
World Labs AI	$288K	$250K	1	1
Velvet AI	$275K	$250K	1	1
Ultra ROBOTICS	$275K	$200K	1	1
Applied Intuition FRONTIER	$275K	$126K	1	4
Atoms FRONTIER	$272K	$241K	1	2
Bicara Therapeutics FRONTIER	$266K	$242K	0	1
Figma AI	$265K	$153K	1	1
Hedra AI	$263K	$200K	1	1
Waymo FRONTIER	$254K	$227K	4	12
Unsiloed AI AI	$250K	$200K	1	1
hillclimb AI	$250K	$200K	1	1
Autonomous Technologies Group AI	$250K	$200K	1	1
Knowtex AI	$250K	$200K	1	1
Arena AI	$250K	$150K	1	1
Labelbox AI	$250K	$200K	1	1
Sygaldry Technologies SPACE	$250K	$200K	1	2
Abridge AI	$246K	$214K	2	2
Scale AI AI	$243K	$216K	1	12
Together AI AI	$243K	$200K	1	2
Stripe FRONTIER	$240K	$192K	1	1
Plaid FRONTIER	$239K	$191K	1	1
Headway FRONTIER	$239K	$212K	1	1
Netlify AI	$235K	$200K	0	1
Profound AI	$230K	$180K	1	1
True Anomaly DEFENSE	$225K	$165K	1	1
Variant VC	$225K	$150K	1	1
EliseAI AI	$225K	$175K	2	4
Mirage AI	$225K	$175K	1	2
Periodic Labs AI	$225K	$200K	1	5
Polymath FRONTIER	$225K	$150K	1	1
Phylo AI	$223K	$170K	1	1
Abundant AI	$223K	$128K	1	2
Multifactor FRONTIER	$220K	$195K	1	1
Skydio DEFENSE	$218K	$196K	1	3
arnata AI	$215K	$180K	1	1
Illumio FRONTIER	$214K	$194K	1	1
Mem0 AI	$213K	$175K	1	1
Cantina AI	$210K	$200K	0	3
Tavus AI	$205K	$160K	1	1
Granica AI	$205K	$160K	1	1
Komodo Health AI	$203K	$186K	0	1
Harvey AI AI	$200K	$180K	2	2
Deepgram AI	$200K	$150K	0	1
MindFort FRONTIER	$200K	$150K	1	1
Maywood AI	$200K	$150K	1	1
Flick AI	$200K	$150K	1	1
Mbodi AI ROBOTICS	$200K	$150K	1	1
Terranox AI SPACE	$200K	$150K	1	1
Quinn AI	$200K	$170K	1	1
Helion Energy FRONTIER	$196K	$171K	1	12
Elliptic FRONTIER	$195K	$175K	1	1
Clipboard AI	$193K	$160K	1	1
Relativity Space SPACE	$192K	$154K	0	3
Anduril Industries DEFENSE	$192K	$166K	5	7
Sprinter Health FRONTIER	$190K	$160K	1	4
Rigetti Computing FRONTIER	$188K	$175K	1	1
Omada Health FRONTIER	$186K	$166K	0	1
Voyager Space DEFENSE	$185K	$165K	1	1
Vast SPACE	$185K	$160K	1	1
Plasmidsaurus FRONTIER	$180K	$170K	1	2
Boston Dynamics ROBOTICS	$178K	$155K	1	1
Amwell FRONTIER	$177K	$155K	0	1
Muon Space SPACE	$177K	$154K	1	2
Contra FRONTIER	$175K	$150K	2	3
Rudus AI	$175K	$150K	1	1
KELAI AI	$175K	$150K	1	1
Earli FRONTIER	$174K	$158K	1	2
Dream3D AI	$173K	$150K	1	1
Corgea DEFENSE	$170K	$120K	1	1
Beam AI	$170K	$140K	1	1
Qualitate SPACE	$170K	$140K	1	6
Cape AI	$168K	$150K	1	1
IonQ FRONTIER	$166K	$136K	3	4
Instacart FRONTIER	$166K	$161K	0	2
Commonwealth Fusion Systems FRONTIER	$165K	$130K	1	1
Phonely AI	$165K	$150K	1	1
Tamarind Bio AI	$165K	$130K	1	2
Prenuvo FRONTIER	$164K	$150K	1	2
Corgi Insurance AI	$163K	$125K	1	1
Trata AI	$162K	$120K	1	1
Insitro FRONTIER	$161K	$156K	1	3
Yondu ROBOTICS	$160K	$120K	1	1
NASA SPACE	$159K	$122K	2	5
Vantor FRONTIER	$156K	$134K	2	6
MyOme FRONTIER	$153K	$138K	1	2
Exonic AI	$150K	$120K	1	1
Freenome FRONTIER	$149K	$131K	0	7
National Security Agency DEFENSE	$149K	$105K	2	3
ASML FRONTIER	$147K	$118K	1	1
Weave Robotics ROBOTICS	$145K	$125K	1	1
Raven Space Systems SPACE	$144K	$120K	2	4
PsiQuantum FRONTIER	$138K	$127K	1	1
Spellbrush AI	$138K	$75K	1	1
Asimov ROBOTICS	$137K	$130K	1	4
Haladir AI	$135K	$111K	1	2
The Aerospace Corporation SPACE	$134K	$110K	2	6
Manifold Bio FRONTIER	$128K	$118K	1	5
Radiant FRONTIER	$126K	$107K	1	5
Tomorrow.io FRONTIER	$125K	$115K	1	1
Multiply Labs ROBOTICS	$125K	$115K	1	1
Dialpad AI	$121K	$111K	2	2
Central Intelligence Agency DEFENSE	$120K	$68K	1	1
Varda Space SPACE	$120K	$100K	1	5
CTGT AI	$120K	$96K	1	1
SentiLink FRONTIER	$120K	$120K	0	4
Databricks AI	$119K	$112K	0	1
Neuralink FRONTIER	$119K	$89K	2	5
Dyno Therapeutics FRONTIER	$106K	$96K	1	1
Cua AI	$104K	$96K	1	1
Leeroo AI	$99K	$78K	1	1
Epinoma FRONTIER	$95K	$80K	1	2
PointOne AI	$90K	$70K	1	1
SID AI	$90K	$60K	1	1
JPL SPACE	$84K	$84K	1	8
Terra API FRONTIER	$78K	$47K	1	1
Ankr Health AI	$75K	$64K	1	1
Silimate AI	$73K	$62K	1	1
Slingshot AI AI	$73K	$65K	1	1
Naive AI	$60K	$48K	1	1
Dynamo AI AI	$60K	$42K	1	1
Nuance Labs SPACE	$52K	$42K	0	1
Vira Health FRONTIER	$47K	$31K	1	2

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