Engineering Manager jobs in California

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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Crusoe

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

Lead a team of engineers building Crusoe's AI infrastructure platform, overseeing the design and delivery of scalable systems for managing large language models at global scale. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence across product and infrastructure, suited for an experienced engineering manager comfortable with distributed systems and the pace of a high-growth company.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $232,000 – $368,000

Lead NVIDIA's test, manufacturability, and quality organization for GPUs and SoCs through production ramp and into the field, owning program velocity, root-cause closure on complex multi-functional failures, and the technical judgment that keeps silicon programs moving when others are stuck. This role suits a hands-on engineering leader with deep post-silicon and production test experience who can navigate competing constraints across design, manufacturing, and software while building and retaining senior technical teams.

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Sentry

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

Lead Sentry's infrastructure engineering team responsible for building internal control platforms and automation tools that enable other engineers to operate services safely at scale. This role suits experienced engineering managers with deep infrastructure expertise who excel at translating complex systems into simple, self-service abstractions for cross-functional teams.

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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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Relativity Space

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $150,000 – $224,000

Lead the materials and processes engineering team responsible for developing and qualifying materials across Relativity's Terran R rocket stages, collaborating with vehicle engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to keep the vehicle on schedule. This role suits experienced materials engineers who want to combine technical leadership with hands-on problem-solving in a fast-moving aerospace company.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

Lead a team building security frameworks and libraries that help Anthropic's engineers handle sensitive data safely, from cryptographic systems to authorization controls. This role suits engineering managers with deep security expertise who want to shape how an entire organization approaches information protection.

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Voyager

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $165,000 – $265,000

This role combines hands-on FPGA engineering with team leadership, requiring someone who spends half their time coding designs for space communication systems while managing an engineering team. It suits experienced FPGA engineers ready to move into management without leaving technical work behind.

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Astranis

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

Astranis seeks an experienced engineering manager to lead a team designing and developing complex satellite electronics systems, overseeing projects from concept through production deployment. This role suits someone with deep hardware expertise and proven team leadership who wants hands-on involvement in cutting-edge space technology.

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Crusoe

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

Lead a team of senior engineers building Crusoe Cloud's container registry, a critical component that determines how quickly customer AI workloads launch. This is a hands-on management role where you'll own team growth, technical direction, and delivery while staying close enough to architecture decisions to guide them confidently.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $184,000 – $356,500

Lead a team developing high-performance GPU communication libraries at NVIDIA, working on technologies like NCCL and NVSHMEM that enable distributed deep learning and HPC applications. This role combines technical depth with management responsibility, requiring you to design features, mentor engineers, and collaborate across the organization to deliver libraries that push the boundaries of what's possible at scale.

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Intuit

San Diego, CA · $206,500 – $279,000

Lead Mailchimp's Identity team as a senior manager, overseeing the architecture and delivery of identity solutions that support millions of users across the platform. This role suits an experienced engineering leader who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to build and mentor high-performing teams while driving cross-functional collaboration.

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Shield AI

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

Lead a team building integration and test infrastructure for an AI autonomy platform used in defense applications, requiring hands-on technical work alongside people management to ensure customers can efficiently develop and deploy autonomous systems.

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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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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $160,000 – $240,000

You'll lead a team of propulsion analysts responsible for thermal, structural, and durability analysis of rocket engines at a company building orbital launch vehicles. This role suits experienced engineers who thrive managing technical teams through complex design-and-manufacturing challenges while maintaining engineering rigor at scale.

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Sentry

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

Lead Sentry's machine learning engineering team, responsible for both classical ML techniques and LLM-based systems that power the company's core product and future AI capabilities. This role suits an experienced ML engineer who wants to move into management, stay hands-on with technical decisions, and shape how AI integrates into developer tools at scale.

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NVIDIA

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

NVIDIA is hiring a hands-on engineering manager to lead a distributed team building OpenBMC firmware for next-generation data center systems. This role suits experienced firmware engineers who want to combine technical depth with management responsibility, owning the full lifecycle of server manageability software.

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Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · $250,000 – $300,000

Lead the design and operation of the software-defined networking control plane that manages virtual networking across Crusoe's large-scale GPU clusters. This role suits experienced distributed systems managers who want hands-on technical leadership on infrastructure serving AI workloads at scale.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $185,234 – $277,850

Shield AI seeks a senior mechanical engineering manager to lead the design, thermal, and systems integration team for their X-BAT aircraft and ground vehicle platforms. This role requires hands-on technical leadership, team building, and cross-functional collaboration to shepherd products from concept through manufacturing.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

Lead a team building investigation and moderation systems that help Anthropic detect and respond to misuse across its products and platforms. This role suits engineering managers with experience shipping internal tools, working across technical and policy teams, and a commitment to making AI systems safer.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $206,000 – $308,000

Lead the design and deployment of safety-critical software infrastructure for a commercial rocket vehicle, overseeing a team that builds systems for command, telemetry, and test automation across ground and flight environments. This role suits experienced engineering managers with a background in complex, high-reliability systems who want to shape foundational architecture at a pivotal stage of a aerospace company's growth.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $272,000 – $488,750

NVIDIA is hiring a senior manager to lead performance analysis across their GPU product pipeline, from early design simulation through production deployment. The role suits engineering leaders with deep systems expertise who can architect performance models, manage testing frameworks, and drive automation using modern AI tools.

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Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · $215,000 – $260,000

Crusoe is seeking a hands-on engineering manager to lead their SDN control plane team, designing and scaling the network virtualization layer that powers their multi-tenant GPU cloud. This role suits experienced distributed systems engineers who want to grow into management while staying technically involved in fast-paced infrastructure work.

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