Looking at blind I was under the impression the whole market is super hot. But after 4 months of exhausting interviews (14 companies and 28 overall interviews) I got 3 offers. All 3 offers are like 10% from my current TC for a significant relocation. Sucks to go through this much work and not making any progress. Declined all 3 jobs due to this. Stellantis Ametek Blue origin Mechanical engg. PhD + 10 YoE. TC: 139k
Salaries on blind are very much for software folks in tech. Traditional engineering roles don’t get the pay, let alone signing bonuses or stock. (Former aero guy here who got lucky) Even Blue Origin barely pays above Boeing but expects you to work 50-60 hours per week. Your best bet is to get into consumer electronics and do hardware design or testing at Microsoft or Facebook. Or jump on to project Kuiper at Amazon and hope you survive idiot PMs treating space hardware like it should have consumer electronics schedules. They won’t pay quite as much as what you see on blind, but it would be a step up from everything else. As in there will be stock grants and a signing bonus. Edit: since you have a PhD, R&D roles are opened up to you, might focus on those at places like microsoft, google, facebook, etc. But very dependent on your area of expertise. From what I’ve seen, facebook reality labs is gobbling up hardware people left and right and basically throwing money at them. If you know anything about optics, facebook or microsoft would want you.
Totally agreed with your comment. My background is 100% in sensor technologies (magnetic Hall effect based sensors, temp sensors, pressure sensors etc). I flunked initial phone screen at FRL and final onsite at Amazon. Hr told me I have to bwait 24 months before I can apply again at amazon.
My friend works in construction (scheduling) and he got a 20% raise on high tc without having any competing jobs. Maybe those companies you got the offer from haven't revised their salaries yet.