Principal engineer salary Globalfoundries

Originally Posted by Unregistered

U r a moron lah. Obviously they are patriotic & trying to defend the rice bowl of our locals. Here you are thinking u dam smart alec & know the "truth".

You are either a smart FT or a real dumb local.

LOL from ST kind must be cmi one...

Originally Posted by kim_st

Hello All,

I am in the process of relocating to Singapore. I have been offered a principal engineer title at Globalfoundries. I couldn't find much information about pay grade and salary. How much a principal engineer earns per year (excluding 13th month bonus) ? Is the pay sufficient for a condominium rent and other house running cost? I will be living with my wife and 6 months baby.


Appreciate your help..

Share with us which company is offering you. I heard lot of singaporeans are hunting such post for months too.

[ingenieur]

happened to come across an advertisement on jobstreet just last week...

meinhardt (singapore) pte ltd is offering 8.5k/mth salary for principal engineer.

it's in civil engineering.

I see too many trolls.

The salary of PE depends on experience. If you are PE with 4-5 years of experience, salary is 5.5-6 k. If you have more than 10 years experience, maybe 7k +. Also depends, if you are in R & D pay is more, if you are in production, little less.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I see too many trolls.

The salary of PE depends on experience. If you are PE with 4-5 years of experience, salary is 5.5-6 k. If you have more than 10 years experience, maybe 7k +. Also depends, if you are in R & D pay is more, if you are in production, little less.

The issue is more with abuse of titles which is causing all these confusion and wide difference in salaries. By right principal engineer is supposed to be the pinnacle of technical expertise, i.e. a lot of experience & widely recognized in his or her professional field or in the academia. In a large MNC there should be only a few of them for a particular subject and I wouldn't be surprised if these guys are paid >US$300k annual.

But if you look at the situation right now a lot of very junior people with <20 years experience, hardly any mastery in their field and zero experience in really dealing with large scale enterprise global projects are now calling themselves principal engineers. In my company we have at least 200 ‘principal engineers’ as it is just a rank that is below manager. Most of them are making abt 5k and they are just normal engineers, not experts in the true sense.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The issue is more with abuse of titles which is causing all these confusion and wide difference in salaries. By right principal engineer is supposed to be the pinnacle of technical expertise, i.e. a lot of experience & widely recognized in his or her professional field or in the academia. In a large MNC there should be only a few of them for a particular subject and I wouldn't be surprised if these guys are paid >US$300k annual.

But if you look at the situation right now a lot of very junior people with <20 years experience, hardly any mastery in their field and zero experience in really dealing with large scale enterprise global projects are now calling themselves principal engineers. In my company we have at least 200 ‘principal engineers’ as it is just a rank that is below manager. Most of them are making abt 5k and they are just normal engineers, not experts in the true sense.

Your explanation is very correct. I know people in Micron and Global Foundries titled PE with 5 years of experience.

in the manufacturing industry, the typical progression is fresh grad join as engineer, after 2-3 years promote to senior engineer and another 2-3 years become principal engineer.

in terms of the job scope difference within engineer, senior & principal is almost the same. just that maybe the principal got a little more years exp and can help to coach the newcomers. this kind of PE can get 5k already not bad.