Hark Salary

💰 $300K–$450K salary range

Median: $300K  ·  Based on 44 public Hark job postings  ·  Updated June 9, 2026

This Hark salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Highest-paying open roles at Hark

• Mobile iOS Engineer — $180K–$450K · Product Engineering
• Infrastructure, Speech — $180K–$450K · AI Infrastructure
• Infrastructure, Large-scale Training — $180K–$450K · AI Infrastructure
• Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Speech — $180K–$450K · AI Foundation Models
• Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal — $180K–$450K · AI Foundation Models
• Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining — $180K–$450K · AI Foundation Models

Hark salary by department

• AI Foundation Models: $450K median (5 roles)
• Product Engineering: $400K median (8 roles)
• Hardware Engineering: $300K median (10 roles)
• Privacy & Security: $300K median (3 roles)
• Embedded Software: $300K median (5 roles)
• Design: $300K median (3 roles)

Hark salary by seniority

• Mid: $300K median (31)
• Staff: $450K median (7)

What Hark looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Python (7) · Kubernetes (3) · Rust (3) · PyTorch (3) · Go (2) · Java (2) · Kotlin (2) · Swift (1) · React (1) · GraphQL (1).

About Hark

Hark is Series A stage · 11–50 employees · founded 2025 · HQ San Jose, California. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Hark

Roles typically ask for around 5 years of experience (up to 10+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 9 that do, Bachelor's and Master's are most common.

Base salary vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are base salary only. Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 2% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Hark total compensation signals

Beyond base salary, postings indicate: common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Hark hiring activity

Hark has 42 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 44 public job postings with disclosed pay. 14 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (44 in the last 90).

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• Flock — median $131K
• Axon Intelligence — median $134K
• Multis — median $171K
• Opposing Views — median $241K
• Ideally — median $228K
• eSHARE — median $178K

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Common questions

What does Hark pay?
The median base salary is $300K, with a typical range of $300K–$450K, based on 44 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Hark?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Mobile iOS Engineer, at $180K–$450K base.

Which team pays the most at Hark?
The AI Foundation Models team, at a $450K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

USD base salary aggregated from 44 public Hark job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed June 10, 2026.

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