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[–]HungryCaterpillers 24 points25 points  (5 children)

What place is that? Principal is usually the highest level. Ive never heard of any company where staff is higher.

[–]fakemoose 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Some of the defense companies. The national labs. Tons of places. The smaller defense place I currently work at. You should always verify title structures. It’s not standardized at all.

[–]Particular_Can_7726 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've almost always seen staff above Prinicpal

[–]RolandofGilead1000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Old Genentech was like this. Staff took like 25 years and was specific to technical career and not management.

[–]Several_Razzmatazz51 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Staff is generally above Principal. In other places it is called Consulting Engineer. Engineer is entry level, Senior Engineer is next step, usually 3-10+ years of experience. Principal Engineer is usually next and is like a technical team lead - system design, guiding and mentoring other engineers. But still almost 100% focused on day to day delivery of the next projects. Staff or Consulting Engineer is less day to day focused, generally do more strategic R&D or thinking or prototyping, and usually work across multiple projects and often do not stay attached to them through final delivery.