Engineering Manager jobs in California

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Concord, CA · $133,060 – $172,980

This is a supervisory federal engineering position managing resident engineers on defense construction projects, directing field and office engineering work, and handling contract administration. It suits experienced engineers or architects with PE or RA licensure ready to move into management of construction operations for the Department of Defense.

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Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $240,000 – $450,000 · Remote

Lead a team of engineers building Sentry's billing and monetization systems, managing checkout, invoicing, and spend-management features while partnering across product and finance to drive platform strategy. This role suits an experienced engineering manager comfortable with distributed systems who enjoys owning strategic direction and mentoring high-performing teams.

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Zwift

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $149,500 – $238,500 · Remote

Lead a team of senior C++ game engineers building core gameplay systems and competitive features for Zwift's cross-platform fitness game, balancing hands-on technical architecture with people management, production operations, and cross-functional collaboration.

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Agility Robotics

Full-time · Fremont, CA · $198,000 – $257,000

Lead a team of embedded software engineers building low-level firmware for humanoid robots deployed in logistics and manufacturing. This role combines hands-on C++ architecture work with team management, requiring someone who can mentor senior engineers while ensuring robust sensor and control systems that bridge hardware and higher-level robot algorithms.

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Crusoe

Full-time · Sunnyvale, CA · $250,000 – $300,000

Lead multiple engineering teams building developer tools and infrastructure at an AI infrastructure company, owning platforms that increase engineer productivity across the organization. This role is for a manager with deep DevX expertise who can balance technical vision with team leadership at a high-growth company.

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Tonal

San Francisco, CA · $230,000 – $275,000 · Remote

Lead a team of six engineers building features that keep Tonal's fitness platform members engaged and happy, balancing shipping velocity with technical quality and team growth. This role suits experienced engineering managers who have shipped consumer products and can navigate the tension between product delivery and sustainable engineering practices.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $160,000 – $215,000

Lead a growing team of power electronics engineers designing and building power systems for advanced satellites in high orbits. This role suits experienced hardware engineering managers who want to work on cutting-edge aerospace products with a well-funded, rapidly-scaling team.

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Voyager

Full-time · Folsom, CA · $153,615 – $199,400

This role leads the technical and people management of solid rocket propulsion programs at a defense contractor, directing cross-functional engineering teams through design, qualification, and production while overseeing approximately 10 engineers. It suits experienced systems engineers with strong leadership capabilities who can balance complex technical execution against cost and schedule constraints in a mission-critical environment.

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Relativity Space

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $152,000 – $228,000

Lead a team of test engineers developing and executing vehicle checkout operations for a production rocket manufacturing environment, owning test plans, GSE infrastructure, and quality standards. This role suits someone with aerospace hardware testing experience who thrives defining processes from scratch and collaborating across manufacturing, design, and production teams.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

San Francisco, CA · $320,000 – $405,000

Lead a team of AI engineers embedded with Anthropic's largest strategic customers, guiding them through complex Claude implementations and translating their technical needs back into product strategy. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with customer advocacy, requiring someone equally comfortable debugging LLM systems and steering cross-functional relationships at the executive level.

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LangChain

San Francisco, CA · $240,000 – $300,000

Lead LangChain's SmithDB team, a greenfield database system built for AI observability. You'll write Rust code, own architectural decisions, and manage a small systems engineering team while staying deeply technical.

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Shield AI

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

Lead a full-stack engineering team building shared services, SDKs, and APIs that connect Shield AI's defense-tech products across the company. This hands-on management role combines technical architecture guidance with team building and product ownership.

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Assort Health

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

Lead the technical delivery team that implements Assort Health's AI platform at major healthcare customers, scaling from a small group to 10+ engineers while owning custom integrations and EHR workflows. This role bridges engineering, product, and customer success for a fast-growing enterprise AI company that has raised $222 million and is expanding rapidly.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $224,000 – $431,250

Lead a software engineering team developing the Cumulus Linux network operating system, focusing on infrastructure services, telemetry, and reliability features for AI and high-performance data centers. This role suits experienced engineering managers with deep Linux systems expertise who want to combine hands-on technical depth with people leadership in a strategic infrastructure domain.

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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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CrowdStrike

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

Lead a team of test automation engineers building validation frameworks for a massive-scale AI security platform processing millions of events per second. This role blends hands-on coding and test architecture with people leadership, demanding both deep technical chops in distributed systems and the ability to grow and mentor a high-performing team.

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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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Boeing

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

Lead a manufacturing engineering team at a Boeing satellite company, overseeing wire harness production and assembly processes while balancing speed, cost, and reliability for national security spacecraft. This role suits experienced engineers ready to step into people management and bridge design with production operations.

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KLA-Tencor

Full-time · Milpitas, CA · $153,300 – $260,600

Lead a team of FPGA and firmware engineers building digital solutions for semiconductor inspection systems, with responsibility for technical architecture, design standards, and personnel management across a complex product portfolio.

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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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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 · $315,000 – $375,000

Anyscale seeks an experienced engineering leader to build and manage a customer engineering team supporting production AI workloads. This role combines operational leadership with hands-on technical problem-solving, partnering with product and engineering to translate customer needs into platform improvements.

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Labelbox

San Francisco, CA · $190,000 – $250,000

Lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers who design data pipelines and measurement systems for frontier AI models, balancing hands-on technical coaching with people management and delivery accountability. This role suits experienced technical managers or senior engineers ready to step into leadership while staying deeply involved in scoping, pipeline design, and quality standards.

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