JobFrame · PRODUC2.SYSTEMSE3570.P6
Product Development & Systems Engineering · Systems Engineering / Product Development
P6 · P6 — Principal Professional · Individual contributor
Median pay · United States
$188,314
$147,937 – $239,712 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Level position
P6 · 6 of 7 in track
Median pay
$188,314
$147,937–$239,712
Level
P6
P6 · 6 of 7 in track
Super-function
engineering
Demand-heat
cool
2.1% growth
Summary
Focuses on the holistic, interdisciplinary engineering of complete systems across the lifecycle — eliciting and decomposing requirements, architecting system and subsystem solutions, managing interfaces, and coordinating integration, verification and validation across hardware and software domains. Distinct from discipline-specific design focuses (electrical, mechanical, software) by owning the total-system solution, cross-domain functional allocation, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) artifacts rather than building individual components.
This level — P6 P6 — Principal Professional
Top individual contributor; recognized authority with strategic impact, equivalent to a low executive level