So far, 2023 has been NVIDIA Corp's (NASDAQ: NVDA) year as explosive AI-fueled growth has sparked a remarkable surge in shares. The stock crossed the $1 trillion market cap mark this year and doesn't seem to be slowing down. Neither are the salaries the AI giant is willing to pay its employees.
What To Know: Nvidia has built an incredible lead in the AI chip space by hiring some of the best talent.
According to data from Levels.fyi, Nvidia pays salaries ranging from $74,460 to $786,000. For comparison, fellow AI leader Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) made salary offers ranging from $77,000 to $310,000 last year and iPhone maker Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) offered prospective workers base salaries of $102,000 to $322,000.
AI jobs are in high demand. Workers tasked with training large language models (LLMs) to communicate in a useful way are being called "prompt engineers" and companies are offering to pay the individuals up to $335,000 per year.
Nvidia's H100 GPUs power LLMs like ChatGPT. If you work for the chip giant, you are likely getting paid pretty well. Here's a look at salary ranges for some of the highest-paying positions at Nvidia.
- Data Scientist: $176,000 - $332,000
- Solutions Architect: $228,000 - $375,000
- Technical Program Manager: $258,000 - $449,000
- Product Manager: $197,000 - $471,000
- Software Engineer: $167,000 - $545,000
- Hardware Engineer: $146,000 - $600,000
- Software Engineering Manager: $285,000 - $786,000