Chief Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
Chantilly, Loudoun County, VA · $87k–$198k a year · Posted November 6, 2026
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Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $142,400 a year. Across 81 open chief engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $122,500 to $237,500 and the median is $175,000. That is inside the middle half of those listings, 19% below the median.
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How AI is used in this kind of work
AI use among architectural and engineering managers is little observed so far. Measured exposure for architectural and engineering managers: 3% (little observed).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
...Job Number: R0252091 Chief Engineer The Opportunity: At a certain point, experience -based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you've developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge...