JobFrame · PRODUC2.SYSTEMSE3570.P7
Product Development & Systems Engineering · Systems Engineering / Product Development
P7 · P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional · Individual contributor
Median pay · United States
$231,230
$181,651 – $294,340 · USD · annual · national base (function pricing in review)
Level position
P7 · 7 of 7 in track
Median pay
$231,230
$181,651–$294,340
Level
P7
P7 · 7 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 — P7 P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional
Staff-level individual contributor: owns architecture across systems, sets technical direction, and multiplies the output of multiple teams without managing people.