Chief Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
Aurora, CO · $87k–$198k a year · Posted November 2, 2026
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Where Aurora, CO ranks
Where Aurora, CO placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #3Best all-round cities for new graduates in the Mountain West61 / 100 · of 11
- #4Best cities for pay after cost of living in the Mountain West$139k · of 11
- #5Best all-round cities for AI careers in the Mountain West54 / 100 · of 11
- #6Best college towns for junior jobs in the Mountain West30% · of 14
- #6Best cities for software and engineering jobs in the Mountain West137 openings · of 22
- #7Best cities for junior jobs in the Mountain West29% · of 19
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.
Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
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
Chief EngineerThe Opportunity:At a certain point, experience-based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you’ve developed... ...Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience in software engineering, or 10+ years of experience in software engineering in lieu of...