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Job titles held over my career: Aircraft Instrumentation Operations Engineer Telemetry and Power Systems Engineer Lead Data Scientist Tactical Air Warfare Analyst Enterprise Systems Engineer
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@the-engi-nerd.bsky.socialThis number was written slightly high to account for sweetening the pot to get people to move abroad, ofc. But really only slightly high. I know national lab scientists making 160+ in their first year (Livermore, to be fair). Plus to be honest most US R1s are historically much better resourced...
Show PostYou want to poach truly critical skills people, especially in defense relevant sectors? Be prepared to offer something roughly on order of 150K USD and that's for early career talent. My understanding is this is just not how things are done in Europe right now.
Show PostUnder-addressed problem for CAN/EU efforts to poach: American scientist pay is *really really good* in a lot of cases. Yes you have to consider PPP and different social benefits etc but the fact is, I made more in USD as a PhD student than one of our collabs made as a postdoc in Spain.
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