Member of Technical Staff job title trend since Apr 2011
Research · Emerging · in 1.3% of HN hiring posts · 91 open roles at 10 companies · median $310k · first seen Aug 2015
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago10 of 10 companies
| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Perplexity | 32 | |
| 2 |  Cohere | 18 | |
| 3 |  Modal | 13 | |
| 4 |  xAI | 12 | |
| 5 |  Mercor | 7 | |
| 6 |  LlamaIndex | 3 | |
| 7 |  Cockroach Labs | 2 | |
| 8 |  DoorDash | 2 | |
| 9 |  Decagon | 1 | |
| 10 |  Labelbox | 1 |
Open roles
8 of 91; company pages list the rest| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)PerplexitySan Francisco$180k to $270k | Perplexity | San Francisco | $180k to $270k |
| Member of Technical StaffLabelboxSan Francisco Bay Area$140k to $200k | Labelbox | San Francisco Bay Area | $140k to $200k |
| Member of Technical Staff - StorageModalSan Francisco$250k to $300k | Modal | San Francisco | $250k to $300k |
| Member of Technical Staff, Agentic SystemsMercorSan Francisco$160k to $500k | Mercor | San Francisco | $160k to $500k |
| Member of Technical Staff, InfrastructureLlamaIndexSan Francisco$200k to $275k | LlamaIndex | San Francisco | $200k to $275k |
| Member of Technical Staff - New Grad (2027 Start)DecagonSan Francisco$185k to $185k | Decagon | San Francisco | $185k to $185k |
| Member of Technical Staff - Applied AIDoorDashSan Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA$204k to $299k | DoorDash | San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA | $204k to $299k |
| Member of Technical Staff - RL Training FrameworkxAI Palo Alto, CA$180k to $440k | xAI | Palo Alto, CA | $180k to $440k |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
56 posts since Apr 2011 · +171% in 6 monthsSeptember 2026 6 of 256 postings, 2.3%
Related titles
About this title
A deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.
Also counted: MTS, technical staff
First sighting
...send a mail to me at riteshn AT gmail Full Stack Engineer (Member of Technical Staff) This is the job for you if you like to work on every aspect of...
Median posted salary $310k from 66 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.