How to hire a senior member technical staff

How to hire a senior member technical staff, step by step

Here's a step-by-step senior member technical staff hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a senior member technical staff job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new senior member technical staff
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   First, determine the employments status of the senior member technical staff you need to hire. Certain senior member technical staff roles might require a full-time employee, whereas others can be done by part-time workers or contractors.

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   Hiring the perfect senior member technical staff also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   This list shows salaries for various types of senior member technical staff.

   Type of Senior Member Technical Staff	Description	Hourly rate
   Senior Member Technical Staff	Computer networks are critical parts of almost every organization. Network and computer systems administrators are responsible for the day-to-day operation of these networks.	$47-82
   Administrator	Administrators are administrative professionals who oversee the whole office or department. They manage office activities and supervise administrative functions in the office... Show more	$22-54
   Network Administrator	A network administrator is responsible for managing an organization's computer systems, ensuring its smooth operations and highest efficiency. Network administrators' duties include inspecting network malfunctions, troubleshooting unresponsive programs, improving system processes, analyzing client's specifications, upgrading existing applications, coordinating with the technology department, and creating a report of network issues resolutions... Show more	$26-43

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Java
   • Python
   • Cloud
   • Architecture
   • Infrastructure
   • Debugging
   • Linux
   • Software Development
   • Cycle Management
   • Object Oriented Programming
   • Distributed Computing
   • Ruby
   • C
   • C++

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   Responsibilities:

   • Achieve stretch goal of development of the HTML registration pages (display within the PC client) on time with quality.
   • Debug and resolve defects in assign UNIX components to achieve quantitative product release quality criteria.
   • Lead successful projects with cross organizational teams from invention through prototyping phases of product introduction allowing deployment of new printing platform.
   • Maintain and develop the schema files for testing models in matlab (in C++ and Perl).
   • Serve as the liaison for interfacing systems and QA, and are responsible for API definition and use cases.
   • Help to develop FPGA migration design flow.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your senior member technical staff job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A senior member technical staff salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, senior member technical staff' average salary in south carolina is 31% less than in california.
   • Seniority. Entry-level senior member technical staff earn 42% less than senior-level senior member technical staff.
   • Certifications. A senior member technical staff with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a senior member technical staff's salary.

   Average senior member technical staff salary

   $130,432yearly

   $62.71 hourly rate

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   Entry-level senior member technical staff salary

   $99,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 23, 2026

   Average senior member technical staff salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	California	$152,199	$73
   2	Washington	$144,087	$69
   3	Oregon	$131,022	$63
   4	Arizona	$124,388	$60
   5	Texas	$116,830	$56
   6	New Jersey	$115,160	$55
   7	Virginia	$113,053	$54
   8	Massachusetts	$112,811	$54
   9	Ohio	$109,820	$53
   10	Illinois	$109,336	$53
   11	Georgia	$109,034	$52
   12	New York	$108,558	$52
   13	North Carolina	$108,482	$52
   14	Florida	$108,165	$52
   15	Vermont	$106,176	$51
   16	Pennsylvania	$102,942	$49
   17	Michigan	$101,985	$49
   18	Indiana	$100,376	$48

   Average senior member technical staff salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Pure Storage	$169,395	$81.44	17
   2	eBay	$162,461	$78.11	17
   3	Tegile Systems	$153,878	$73.98
   4	Aryaka	$153,127	$73.62
   5	Cohesity	$152,778	$73.45	9
   6	Dolby Laboratories	$152,316	$73.23	3
   7	MediaTek	$146,835	$70.59	2
   8	Aviatrix	$144,589	$69.51
   9	Delphix	$144,122	$69.29
   10	VMware	$144,115	$69.29
   11	Nutanix	$143,334	$68.91	68
   12	Lucid Motors	$143,225	$68.86	34
   13	Duetto	$140,808	$67.70
   14	ThoughtSpot	$140,211	$67.41
   15	Thomson Companies	$139,973	$67.29
   16	Lacework	$139,806	$67.21
   17	Sky High, Inc.	$139,721	$67.17
   18	Formation Data Systems	$139,720	$67.17
   19	MCI Communications Services Inc	$139,720	$67.17
   20	Rim Corp	$139,720	$67.17

4. Writing a senior member technical staff job description

   A senior member technical staff job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. Below, you can find an example of a senior member technical staff job description:

   Senior member technical staff job description example

   Job Description and Requirements
   
   At Synopsys, we're at the heart of the innovations ushering the Era of Smart Everything, ranging from self-driving cars, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, 5G, and IoT. Chip design today is more complex than ever as it needs to accurately model silicon behavior at vanishingly small geometries while handling large designs with hundreds of millions of logic gates. All while solving a series of NP-hard problems to deliver best-in-class clock frequencies within tight power budgets. There is a huge opportunity to innovate by developing smarter algorithms, data structures, and machine learning techniques, as we scale our industry-leading digital implementation solution for the next generation of powerful chips. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.
   
   You will be joining the digital signoff R&D team in Synopsys' Silicon Realization Group and working on advanced technology nodes for Synopsys' industry-leading enterprise platform solution. In this role, you will be a lead for a highly experienced software development team and contribute to exciting new technologies for chip design automation, enabling leading design companies that shape our lives today. The successful person will work as the main developer on a part of a high-performing team tasked with developing efficient algorithms for product enhancement with advanced technology nodes.
   
   Requirements:
   
   * Designs algorithms and data structures. Has desires to learn and explore new technologies and demonstrates good examination and problem-solving skills.
   * Customarily exercises autonomous judgment in selecting methods and techniques to obtain creative solutions.
   * Performs in a project leadership role and contributes to complex aspects of a project.
   * Work is self-directed and collaborative in nature.
   
   Preferred Experience
   
   * MS/Ph.D. + 12+ years of related large-scale EDA software development experience.
   * Possesses a deep understanding in one or more of the following areas: static-timing, power integrity, RLC extraction, matrix solve, and distributed computing.
   * Expertise in the development of complex software projects with C/C++ coding in a Linux environment.
   * Proven background in data structures and algorithm development.
   
   Our Silicon Realization Group is all about building high-performance silicon chips-faster. We're the world's leading provider of solutions for designing and verifying advanced silicon chips. And we design the next-generation processes and models needed to manufacture those chips. We enable our customers to optimize chips for power, cost, and performance-eliminating months off their project schedules. At Synopsys, we're at the heart of the innovations that change the way we work and play. Self-driving cars. Artificial Intelligence. The cloud. 5G. The Internet of Things. These breakthroughs are ushering in the Era of Smart Everything. And we're powering it all with the world's most advanced technologies for chip design and software security. If you share our passion for innovation, we want to meet you.
   
   Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.

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5. Post your job

   To find the right senior member technical staff for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with senior member technical staff they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit senior member technical staff who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your senior member technical staff job on Zippia to find and recruit senior member technical staff candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as dice, engineering.com, stack overflow, it job pro.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting senior member technical staff requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   Sometimes, it's not enough to interview senior member technical staff candidates, so you can ask them to do a test project. If you are not a technical person and don't know what a test project should be, you can use these websites:

   • TestDome
   • CodeSignal
   • Testlify
   • BarRaiser
   • Coderbyte

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new senior member technical staff

   Once you've selected the best senior member technical staff candidate for the job, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, this letter should include details about the benefits and perks you offer the candidate. Ensuring that your offer is competitive is essential, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and you should be open to discussion. After you reach an agreement, the final step is formalizing the agreement with a contract.

   It's equally important to follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   After that, you can create an onboarding schedule for a new senior member technical staff. Human Resources and the hiring manager should complete Employee Action Forms. Human Resources should also ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc., and that new employee files are created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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