Role Filing Pattern
Senior Hardware Engineer appears as a limited H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 24 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Senior Hardware Engineer H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 17-2061.00
SOC Category: Computer Hardware Engineers
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Senior Hardware Engineer (SOC 17-2061.00, Computer Hardware Engineers) appears as a limited H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 24 filing records. Filed base wages span $117,400 to $161,000 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $137,900. These are filed LCA records for this role, not visa approvals, hires, or open roles, and the figures generally exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Median Salary
$137,900
H-1B LCA Filings
24LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$161,000
LCA filings are not visa approvals or open roles — see why this matters
Public filing data is normalized for browsing. LCA filings are not visa approvals or job openings, PERM filings are not individual green-card success rates, and salary figures generally use the lower bound of filed wage ranges and exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Employer Concentration
The strongest employer filing concentration for this role comes from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., General Motors, Google LLC, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., and Spot AI, Inc.. Use this as a filing-volume signal, not as a guarantee of current hiring or petition outcomes.
Location Pattern
Filed worksites for this role are concentrated in places such as San Diego, CA, Warren, MI, Mountain View, CA, Southfield, MI, and Santa Clara, CA. City-level wage differences can reflect seniority, worksite rules, employer mix, and local labor market differences.
Salary Caveat
The median shown here is a filed base wage signal from public LCA records. It generally excludes equity, bonus, benefits, and compensation changes after filing.
Salary Distribution (Base)
LCA filingsQuartile breakdown of filed annual base wages.
Min$117,400
P25$119,434
Median$137,900
P75$138,719
Max$161,000
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.$119,4349
- General Motors$141,6064
- Google LLC$217,3352
- 2
- 2
- LER TechForce, LLC$117,4001
- Magna Electronics, Inc.$123,0111
- SambaNova Systems Inc.$161,0001
- 1
Filed Wage by City
- Mountain View, CA$217,3352
- Palo Alto, CA$161,0001
- Milford, MI$150,0001
- Warren, MI$138,7193
- San Diego, CA$124,1668
- Troy, MI$117,4001
- Raleigh, NC$105,8931
- 2
- 2
- 1
- Hayward, CAN/A1
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Senior Hardware Engineer?
The median filed base salary for Senior Hardware Engineer H-1B LCA records is $137,900 per year.
How many Senior Hardware Engineer H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 24 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Senior Hardware Engineer role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Senior Hardware Engineer?
Top employers filing LCAs for Senior Hardware Engineer include: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., General Motors, Google LLC.
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