Role Filing Pattern
Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering appears as a limited H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 21 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 17-2131.00
SOC Category: Materials Engineers
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering (SOC 17-2131.00, Materials Engineers) appears as a limited H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 21 filing records. Filed base wages span $109,574 to $155,750 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $144,664. 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
$144,664
H-1B LCA Filings
21LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$155,750
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 Western Digital Technologies, 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 Jose, CA, Fremont, CA, Milpitas, CA, Union City, CA, 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$109,574
P25$128,565
Median$144,664
P75$155,251
Max$155,750
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 21
Filed Wage by City
- Union City, CA$155,7501
- San Jose, CA$144,6649
- Milpitas, CA$144,6642
- Santa Clara, CA$144,6641
- Fremont, CA$137,0938
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering?
The median filed base salary for Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering H-1B LCA records is $144,664 per year.
How many Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 21 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering?
Top employers filing LCAs for Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering include: Western Digital Technologies, Inc..
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Employer filing this role
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
21 LCA filings
$144,664 median wage
City filing this role
San Jose, CA
9 LCA filings
$144,664 median wage
City filing this role
Fremont, CA
8 LCA filings
$137,093 median wage
City filing this role
Milpitas, CA
2 LCA filings
$144,664 median wage