Innovation Engineer Salary in San Jose, CA

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How much does an Innovation Engineer make in San Jose, CA? The average Innovation Engineer salary in San Jose, CA is $145,885 as of March 26, 2024, but the salary range typically falls between $133,291 and $160,966. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. With more online, real-time compensation data than any other website, Salary.com helps you determine your exact pay target.

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Innovation Engineer (Generative AI)

Qventus - Mountain View , CA

As a Innovation Engineer, you will: * Lead the exploration and implementation of cutting-edge technologies, especially LLMs, to develop new product directions and applications. Your work will span ...

ZipRecruiter ATS Jobs for ZipSearch/ZipAlerts - 64 days ago

Senior Innovation Engineer

Midea America Corp - Louisville , KY

Summary To better enable our primary focus of developing innovative products for the US market, we are seeking a creative engineer to lead innovation projects for the US market. The ultimate results ...

LinkedIn - 71 days ago

Sr. Innovation Design Engineer

Transparent Search Group - Waterloo , IA

Senior Innovation Design Engineer Location: Waterloo, Iowa Salary Range: $66,000 - $86,000 Annually Exciting Opportunity: Are you a visionary engineer with a knack for transforming ideas into market ...

ZipRecruiter ATS Jobs for ZipSearch/ZipAlerts - 10 days ago

Battery Pack Development Engineer

Teal Energi - Fremont , CA

Battery Pack Development Engineer Our client is a technology and engineering services business, which applies world-class technical innovation, engineering, testing and manufacturing services to ...

LinkedIn - 14 days ago

National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) Configuration Management Engineer

Idaho National Laboratory - Idaho Falls , ID

National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) Configuration Management Engineer Idaho National Laboratory is hiring a National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) Configuration Management Engineer to work ...

Energy Central - 31 days ago

Navy Innovation Program Lead - California

FedTech - Los Angeles , CA

Here, you will directly engage with clients and eventually manage a team that focuses on executing a variety of innovation programming, including research commercialization training, a Startup Studio ...

LinkedIn - 28 days ago

What does an Innovation Engineer do?

Common responsibilities of an Innovation Engineer

Demonstrated experience in network engineering, software defined networking, data storage and compute, systems development, virtualization, and/or systems deployment at the Tier 3 level.

January 19, 2023

Lead and coordinate design and innovation efforts to develop optimal solutions for the transportation network through equipment specification, material flow, process design, site layout, and intellectual property considerations.

February 18, 2023

Supports ownership, development, and maintenance of the Landing Gear Engineering Design Manuals and is responsible for methodical and period review for applicability and required updates ensuring linkage to corrective actions, lessons learned, innovation and technology progression.

February 22, 2023

Understand that results are important and focus on turning mission into action to achieve results following the principles of Flawless Execution while consistently complying with quality, service and productivity standards to meet deadlines and exceed expectations by giving our clients the best possible outcome.

March 16, 2023

Develop use cases, provide operational context, and propose creative and innovative solutions for the successful and efficient integration across several project areas to support the evolution of tools, techniques, policies, and processes into the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) framework.

April 25, 2023

Create, manage, document, and enhance weekly NGA Outpost operational processes to enhance collaboration between locations including weekly staff meetings, online communication tools, and tracking tools.

May 04, 2023

Collaborate with the suppliers and other cross functional partners to identify necessary systems, network, electrical, pneumatic and controls design, building and transportation requirements and the execution of necessary activities to successfully complete the conceptual phase all the way through handover to fina engineering and implementation.

May 10, 2023

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Average Salary Range for Innovation Engineer in San Jose, CA

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133291

160966

145885

Average Total Cash Compensation

Includes base and annual incentives

137333

168381

151141

What is the average salary for Innovation Engineer in 2024?

These charts show the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of Innovation Engineer in San Jose, CA. The base salary for Innovation Engineer ranges from $133,291 to $160,966 with the average base salary of $145,885. The total cash compensation, which includes base, and annual incentives, can vary anywhere from $137,333 to $168,381 with the average total cash compensation of $151,141.

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	Average Salary	Average Salary Range
Base Salary	$145,885	$133,291 - $160,966
Bonus	$5,256	$4,041 - $7,416
Total Pay	$151,141	$137,333 - $168,381

* Base Salary represents gross income before taxes and deductions. It does not include additional pay such as benefits, bonuses, profit sharing or commissions.

* Total Pay combines base salary, bonuses, profit sharing, tips, commissions, overtime pay and other forms of cash earnings, as applicable for this job.

Innovation Engineer Salary Near San Jose, CA

CITY, STATE	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE	COMPARE TO San Jose, CA
CITY, STATE Santa Clara, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $133,291 - $160,966	COMPARE TO San Jose, CA 0%
CITY, STATE Santa Cruz, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $118,135 - $142,663	COMPARE TO San Jose, CA
CITY, STATE Fremont, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $133,036 - $160,658	COMPARE TO San Jose, CA
CITY, STATE Hayward, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $129,362 - $156,220	COMPARE TO San Jose, CA
CITY, STATE Oakland, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $129,574 - $156,477	COMPARE TO San Jose, CA
CITY, STATE Daly City, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $132,760 - $160,325	COMPARE TO San Jose, CA

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About San Jose, California

San Jose is located at 37°20′07″N 121°53′31″W / 37.335278°N 121.891944°W / 37.335278; -121.891944. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 180.0 sq mi (466 km2), of which 3.4 sq mi (8.8 km2) (1.91%) is water, making it the fourth-largest California city by land area (after Los Angeles, San Diego and California City). San Jose lies between the San Andreas Fault, the source of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the Calaveras Fault. San Jose is shaken by moderate earthquakes on average one or two times a year. These quakes originate just east of the city on...

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