Engineering Manager jobs in California

Mixpanel

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $279,000 – $377,000

Lead Mixpanel's Query Service engineering team, which builds the analytics API and query infrastructure supporting the platform's core customer-facing capabilities. This role suits experienced engineering managers who thrive on developing talent and shaping technical direction in a fast-moving, autonomous team environment.

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Bend Studio

San Mateo, CA · $201,400 – $302,000

This is an engineering manager role leading PlayStation's developer experience platform team, responsible for building tools and systems that help internal engineers work more effectively. It suits experienced technical leaders who can balance hands-on coding guidance with team management and cross-functional influence.

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Vercel

San Francisco, CA · $196,000 – $336,000

Lead Vercel's CDN and edge infrastructure team, responsible for operating the systems that deliver performance and reliability across the platform. This is a people leadership role balancing technical strategy with team growth, where you'll translate business objectives into roadmaps and drive cross-organizational alignment.

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Agility Robotics

Full-time · Fremont, CA · $236,000 – $369,000

Lead multiple distributed engineering teams building Arc, a cloud SaaS platform for robot fleet management, device configuration, and operations. This role suits experienced engineering leaders who have scaled products to multi-tenant SaaS, can make technical decisions across full-stack and cloud services teams, and thrive working with product and TPM partners to ship reliably.

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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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Sentry

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

Sentry seeks an Engineering Manager to lead their Growth team, focusing on helping developers discover and adopt more of the platform's capabilities through a customer-first approach rather than aggressive conversion tactics. This role suits an experienced manager who combines strong product sense with technical credibility, enjoys building measurement infrastructure, and believes growth done well is fundamentally about serving users better.

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Assort Health

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

Lead Assort Health's infrastructure and platform engineering team, responsible for the systems that power AI agents handling patient interactions. This role suits engineering managers who excel at building high-performing teams while staying hands-on with Kubernetes, GCP, and observability tooling in a fast-growing healthcare startup.

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Intuit

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

Lead a software engineering team building enterprise-grade financial products for accountants at Intuit, with responsibility for hiring, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy across a full-stack platform. This role suits experienced engineering managers who combine hands-on technical depth with people leadership and product vision.

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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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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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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $152,802 – $229,202

Shield AI seeks an engineering manager to lead mechanical design teams developing autonomous aircraft systems. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with cross-site collaboration and mentorship of engineers across multiple UAV programs.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $184,000 – $345,000

Lead a team of solutions architects and engineers deploying NVIDIA's GPU and AI infrastructure at scale, guiding initial customer deployments from prototype to production while bridging engineering and field operations. This role suits someone with deep systems expertise who thrives mentoring technical teams through complex technical challenges and customer engagements.

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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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Amplitude

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $227,000 – $381,000

Lead Amplitude's Data Infrastructure team within their experimentation platform, connecting statistical innovation with scalable production systems that power large-scale A/B testing. This role combines technical leadership with data science expertise, requiring someone equally fluent in causal inference methods and distributed computing architecture.

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Gofundme

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $243,000 – $364,000

Lead GoFundMe's integrity and trust & safety engineering team, building systems to detect fraud and harmful content while maintaining platform accessibility for legitimate fundraisers. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic responsibility for detection pipelines, moderation tooling, and regulatory compliance across a high-stakes platform.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $160,000 – $180,000

Lead a team of RF test engineers building and validating satellite communication payloads for Astranis, focusing on test automation, design-for-test strategies, and integration processes that bridge RF design and production. This role suits experienced hardware engineers who want to move into technical leadership while staying hands-on with complex RF systems and spacecraft integration.

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Sigma Computing

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $230,000 – $270,000

Sigma is seeking an engineering leader to manage high-performing teams and drive product strategy across their data analytics platform. This role suits experienced technical managers who excel at team development, cross-functional collaboration, and translating business needs into engineering execution.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $160,000 – $240,000

This role leads a team of engineers analyzing fluid dynamics and thermal systems for a rocket propulsion company, translating complex physics into practical hardware designs. It suits experienced aerospace engineers with team leadership skills and CFD expertise who want hands-on involvement in vehicle development.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $232,000 – $368,000

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Manager to lead product co-design and verification efforts for speed, reliability, and power compliance across their Silicon Co-Design Group, overseeing system design methodologies and silicon validation. This role suits experienced semiconductor leaders who excel at translating between product requirements and technical implementation while mentoring cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $215,000 – $260,000

Lead a team of data engineers building Crusoe's AI infrastructure platform, responsible for designing and operating scalable data systems that support the company's energy-aligned AI compute operations. This role combines technical leadership with strategic partnership across product and engineering, suited for someone who wants to grow engineers while maintaining hands-on involvement in modern data architecture.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $160,000 – $240,000

Lead a technical team building test automation and validation frameworks for autonomous defense systems across multiple vehicle platforms and operational environments. This role suits experienced engineering managers who want to drive quality assurance practices in a fast-paced, mission-critical setting.

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Gofundme

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $243,000 – $364,000

Lead a team of 5-8 engineers building GoFundMe's integrations platform, handling public APIs, webhooks, and Salesforce connectors. This role suits experienced engineering managers who want to combine hands-on technical work with people leadership on systems that power millions of transactions.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $405,000 – $485,000

Lead the engineering team building enterprise-ready features for Claude, translating large organization requirements into scalable technical solutions that enable Fortune 500 deployments. This role partners across product, sales, and security to remove deployment blockers and drive compliance work while managing team growth and execution.

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