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Computer Systems Engineer/Architect in San Jose

242 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 44 employers · largest 19% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 242 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$98,340
10th percentile
$184,430
median
$290,240
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · Zoox · Anthropic · Verkada · Rocket Lab · Roblox · Harbinger Motors · Intuitive Surgical · 1X · Chime · Agility Robotics · Faire · Etched · Figma · Gusto · Kairos Power · Kodiak Robotics · Lucid Motors · Reddit · Ridgeline · Scale AI · 360 IT Professionals · Antora Energy · Klaviyo · Robinhood · Sierra · Skild AI · Sonsoft Inc · Applied Intuition · Artech Information System · Ask IT Consulting · Astranis · Bosch · Collabera · Discord · Fanatics Commerce · Integrated Resources Inc · Nimble Robotics · Pinterest · SBT Global · Spring Health · Sweetgreen · USM · Wealthfront

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