Engineering Manager jobs in California

Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $220,000 – $450,000 · Remote

Lead Sentry's billing platform engineering team, overseeing systems that measure, price, and bill billions of observable events while working across product, finance, and infrastructure. This role suits an experienced engineering manager who combines technical depth in distributed systems with product thinking and enjoys mentoring senior engineers.

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Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · $285,000 – $335,000

Lead the engineering team building cloud compute infrastructure and virtualization capabilities for an AI-focused cloud platform. This role suits experienced engineering managers who understand distributed systems, hypervisors, and GPU compute, and want to scale a team solving energy-efficient AI infrastructure challenges.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $170,000 – $310,000

Shield AI seeks a software engineering manager to lead technical teams developing autonomous systems and defense technology. This role suits someone with management experience in fast-paced engineering environments who can build and mentor high-performing groups.

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Assort Health

San Francisco, CA · $210,000 – $300,000 · Remote

Lead the technical implementation team that deploys Assort Health's AI platform into major healthcare systems, scaling from a small group to 10+ engineers while owning customer integrations, EHR work, and the feedback loop that improves the core platform.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $244,000 – $330,000

Lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers shipping AI automation into customer finance systems, balancing hands-on technical work with executive-level customer engagement and team development. This role suits experienced solutions or field engineers ready to move into people management while staying deeply technical.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $485,000 – $625,000

Anthropic is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team building security controls for AI training hardware as the company expands into owned and partner data centers. This role suits someone with deep expertise in firmware, hardware, and OS security who has managed security or systems engineers and can navigate complex trade-offs between security, performance, and vendor relationships.

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Gofundme

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $219,000 – $329,000

Lead GoFundMe's machine learning operations team, responsible for building reliable infrastructure and processes that keep ML and AI systems running safely at scale in production. This role suits experienced ML engineers who have managed teams and want to shape how an organization operationalizes machine learning across its platform.

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Sigma Computing

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $170,000 – $195,000

Lead a team of Solution Engineers focused on the commercial segment at an enterprise analytics platform, mentoring technical pre-sales staff while personally contributing to major deals and customer engagements. This role suits experienced SE managers or senior individual contributors who thrive as player-coaches, combining hands-on expertise in data platforms with the ability to develop and scale a growing team.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $255,000 – $300,000 · Remote

Lead Notion's web infrastructure engineering team, overseeing the client architecture and systems that power the product's front-end performance and reliability. This role suits experienced engineering managers ready to grow senior engineers, establish technical practices, and scale a team through rapid organizational change.

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Voyager

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $190,000 – $230,000

This role combines engineering leadership with hands-on technical work in solid rocket propulsion systems at an aerospace defense company. It suits experienced mechanical or aerospace engineers comfortable splitting their time between managing a 20-person team and performing complex design and ballistics work on advanced propulsion technologies.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $184,000 – $276,000

This role leads a team of fluids analysts at a rocket company, guiding the design and operation of propellant and thermal systems across the vehicle. You'll apply expertise in CFD, flow analysis, and thermal dynamics while mentoring engineers and directly shaping critical hardware decisions for an early-stage launch vehicle program.

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AeroVironment

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $141,000 – $215,000

This role leads a large, distributed team of software engineers developing onboard mission systems for uncrewed aircraft, including autonomy and flight control. It suits experienced engineering managers with a background in embedded systems or aerospace who can scale teams rapidly while shaping technical strategy.

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SAP

Full-time · Palo Alto, CA · $370,400

This executive engineering leadership role owns the technical strategy and delivery of SAP Business Network's core platform, data systems, and AI capabilities. It suits experienced engineering leaders comfortable scaling multiple organizations, defining technology roadmaps, and building high-performing teams across cloud, data, and intelligent systems.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $224,000 – $431,250

Lead a team building an agentic platform to monitor, debug, and optimize large-scale generative AI models in production. This role suits experienced engineering managers who understand deep learning systems, observability platforms, and distributed inference infrastructure.

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Intel

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $256,050 – $361,480

This role leads a team of design verification engineers building and validating AI accelerator chips and subsystems at Intel. It suits experienced engineering managers who combine deep expertise in hardware verification with leadership across complex, security-focused silicon projects.

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Boeing

Full-time · El Segundo, CA · $151,300 – $222,500

A people management role leading 20-25 engineers in spacecraft assembly, integration, and testing operations at a satellite manufacturer. This suits experienced technical managers comfortable with aerospace production who want to grow a team while driving manufacturing improvements toward high-volume production.

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CrowdStrike

Full-time · Sunnyvale, CA · $140,000 – $215,000

Lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers at a major cybersecurity firm, responsible for managing infrastructure that processes trillions of daily events while mentoring engineers and driving operational excellence across distributed systems. This role suits experienced engineering managers with deep SRE expertise who want to balance hands-on technical leadership with team growth at scale.

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Workday

Full-time · Pleasanton, CA · $281,600 – $422,400

Lead Workday's content engineering and operations teams to build the strategy and platform for delivering technical documentation and knowledge management at scale. This role suits an experienced engineering leader who has managed technical teams, understands content systems deeply, and can shape the future of how enterprise customers access product information.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $160,000 – $210,000

Lead a team of electrical engineers designing and building sensor and actuator components for satellites in geosynchronous orbit. This role suits someone with hands-on hardware expertise and experience growing engineering teams who wants to work on cutting-edge spacecraft systems.

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Eight Sleep

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $240,000 – $300,000 · Remote

Lead the mechanical engineering team building Eight Sleep's flagship sleep fitness Pod and next-generation products from concept through production at scale. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role suited to someone with a track record launching complex consumer hardware who wants to stay technically engaged while growing a team.

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Amplitude

San Francisco, CA · $227,000 – $381,000

Lead a team of ~10 engineers building data import and export pipelines at scale, handling billions of events daily across cloud warehouses and storage systems. This role suits experienced backend or infrastructure engineers who have managed teams and want to own the reliability and roadmap of critical data systems.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $270,000 – $320,000

This is an engineering leadership role overseeing infrastructure, reliability, and governance teams at a distributed computing platform company. It suits experienced engineering managers who can build and scale high-performing teams while maintaining deep technical credibility in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

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Motive

San Francisco, CA · $229,000 – $285,000

This role leads the infrastructure and operations engineering organization at a fleet management software company, managing teams across SRE, data platforms, and database engineering. It suits an experienced engineering leader comfortable with cloud architecture, AI integration, and driving reliability initiatives across mission-critical systems.

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