potential visa workaround - incorporate abroad (i.e. self employed) and work remotely for US startup as a contractor (that is willing to work with timezone and culture differences to save costs). Even still there is a rate ceiling, startup jobs are gonna top out at 80k for overseas remote unless you have a distinguishing value prop, and non-startups don’t really have a good reason to hire overseas as the management/accountability issues really prevent this from scaling beyond early stage startup situations. my 2c as a US startup with overseas eng.