Reverse Engineer Salary in California

How much does a Reverse Engineer make in CA?

As of April 01, 2025, the average annual salary for a Reverse Engineer in California is $145,494. According to Salary.com, salaries can range from a low of $122,495 to a high of $170,262, with most professionals earning between $133,455 and $158,458.

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Location	Avg. Salary	Date Updated
Location Coachella, CA	Avg. Salary $138,199	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Acampo, CA	Avg. Salary $141,048	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Acton, CA	Avg. Salary $145,177	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Adelanto, CA	Avg. Salary $138,094	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Adin, CA	Avg. Salary $134,888	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Agoura Hills, CA	Avg. Salary $143,278	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Aguanga, CA	Avg. Salary $138,384	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Ahwahnee, CA	Avg. Salary $131,380	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Alameda, CA	Avg. Salary $161,085	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Alamo, CA	Avg. Salary $160,716	Date Updated April 01, 2025

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What does a Reverse Engineer do?

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Support the maintenance of malware analysis platforms and tool sets, identify requirements for new malware analysis capabilities, and contribute to the development of new malware analysis tools and techniques.

August 07, 2022

Document discovered vulnerabilities and support building a comprehensive knowledgebase of discovered vulnerabilities.

January 05, 2023

Understanding of compiler specifics, operating system concepts, security models, and the causes of most vulnerabilities and how to exploit them, preferably, experience coding and disassembling software on both Windows and Linux or other *BSD and Unix variants.

February 12, 2023

Designing, prototyping, documenting, testing and transitioning malicious code analysis methods and tools appropriate for operational use.

March 27, 2023

Provide input for the configuration of the applications and servers on which application programs run to ensure information security/information assurance principles related to the CNO mission are adequately addressed.

April 02, 2023

Assist in incident response activities such as host triage and retrieval, malware analysis, remote system analysis, end-user interviews, and remediation efforts.

April 08, 2023

Collaborate with the Cyber Innovations Team to develop software systems that aid in data analytics, network-based applications, reverse engineering tasks, embedded system development, and integration of hardware.

April 10, 2023

Works independently to form technical approach from differentiators and actively contributes to win theme meetings and pink team reviews.

April 12, 2023

Develop the critical components of the solution, including but not limited to, security, rules infrastructure, custom adapter implementation, and application interfaces.

May 10, 2023

Demonstrates understanding of business product offerings and contributes to marketing / business development by providing technical expertise during marketing engagements as well as supporting business development efforts led by others.

May 16, 2023

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California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, S...

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