Software Engineer jobs in California

Amplitude

San Francisco, CA · $167,000 – $230,000

This role involves designing and maintaining the query execution engine that powers analytics across Amplitude's product suite, sitting between customer-facing features and the underlying database. You'll work on distributed systems challenges like query planning, semantic layers, and data modeling while collaborating with multiple product teams that depend on your infrastructure.

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Pylon

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $280,000

Pylon seeks an infrastructure engineer to design and operate their cloud systems end-to-end, focusing on observability, scaling, and developer velocity for an AI-native support platform. This suits someone with backend infrastructure experience who enjoys solving reliability and performance problems at a fast-growing startup.

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XPeng

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $203,450 – $344,300

This role leads the architecture and development of a synthetic data generation and digital simulation system for autonomous vehicles, robots, and AI model training at XPeng. It suits senior engineers with deep expertise in 3D reconstruction, simulation platforms, and large-scale system design who want to work on foundational technologies for autonomous mobility.

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Agility Robotics

Full-time · Fremont, CA · $190,000 – $296,000

Lead the design and development of complex behaviors for humanoid robots operating in real-world warehouses and manufacturing environments, owning the full stack from task logic through on-robot deployment. This role suits experienced robotics engineers who combine strong technical depth in autonomy and manipulation with the ability to mentor others and set technical direction.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $270,000 – $300,000

A technical specialist working directly with large customers to optimize AI model inference and fine-tuning on production systems. This role suits engineers with deep expertise in LLM deployment and performance tuning who want to work closely with strategic customers while influencing product direction.

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Mixpanel

San Francisco, CA · $226,000 – $306,000

You'll build AI-powered analytics features end-to-end at Mixpanel, creating intelligent systems that proactively surface insights to data teams through agents, alerts, and dashboards. This role suits full-stack engineers with 5+ years of experience who are comfortable shipping products quickly in ambiguous spaces and want to work at the intersection of AI and analytics.

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Vercel

San Francisco, CA · $196,000 – $294,000

Vercel seeks a Software Engineer to develop and maintain their AI Gateway platform, a unified API layer that abstracts multiple AI model providers and handles critical features like rate limiting and intelligent failovers. This role suits backend engineers with 5+ years of experience who want to work on infrastructure that powers AI applications at scale.

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Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $155,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This role involves building AI-powered systems to help developers automatically detect and resolve software errors, using Sentry's extensive dataset of production issues. It suits experienced engineers who want to work on high-impact machine learning infrastructure as part of a foundational AI team.

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CharacterAI

Redwood City, CA · $150,000 – $300,000 · Remote

A front-end engineer role building interfaces for an AI-powered conversational platform serving 20+ million monthly users. This suits engineers passionate about design systems, user experience, and shipping polished consumer products in a fast-paced environment.

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Suno

Full-time · Los Angeles, CA · $188,000 – $247,000

Android engineer position at Suno, a music creation platform powered by AI. This role suits developers who want to build consumer-facing media applications and own features across a rapidly growing product.

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Astranis

San Francisco, CA · $130,000 – $175,000

This role involves developing and maintaining flight software for Astranis satellites, working on command and monitoring systems that serve government and commercial customers. It suits experienced embedded systems engineers who want to work on mission-critical space technology with a focus on reliable, high-availability software.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $280,512 – $420,768

Shield AI seeks a senior autonomy engineer to develop control systems and multi-agent coordination software for defense platforms across air, sea, and space domains. The role blends theoretical foundations in control theory and optimization with practical software integration to deliver real-world autonomous capabilities.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $320,000 – $485,000

Build and operate the distributed systems that serve Claude inference to millions of users across multiple cloud providers and AI accelerators. This role suits experienced systems engineers who want to tackle large-scale infrastructure challenges while supporting both production reliability and cutting-edge AI research.

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Bend Studio

San Mateo, CA · $137,300 – $205,900

This role combines firmware development for PlayStation audio products with UI/UX work on consumer electronics, suited for someone with embedded systems expertise who wants to lead technical direction on hardware that reaches millions of users.

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Intuit

Full-time · Mountain View, CA · $202,500 – $274,000

This role leads iOS technical strategy and architecture for QuickBooks' workforce solutions products, overseeing multi-team development and AI integration. It suits experienced iOS engineers who want to shape platform direction, mentor others, and work on intelligent features for millions of small business users.

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Relativity Space

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $115,000 – $173,000

You'll build AI systems and applications that help engineers and operators across Relativity's rocket manufacturing and launch operations. This role is for software engineers comfortable working across the full development lifecycle with foundation models, data infrastructure, and cloud platforms in a fast-moving, hands-on environment.

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Crusoe

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

Crusoe is seeking a senior kernel engineer to set technical direction for their Linux kernel team, architecting critical infrastructure projects and mentoring engineers while balancing hands-on coding with high-level design. This role suits experienced systems engineers who thrive on complex kernel problems, upstream contributions, and building production infrastructure at scale.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $184,000 – $287,500

A cybersecurity-focused software engineer role developing security features for autonomous vehicle platforms, working across the full stack from sensors to cloud infrastructure. Suited to experienced systems engineers comfortable with low-level embedded code and the unique security challenges of safety-critical autonomous systems.

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Boeing

Full-time · El Segundo, CA · $135,150 – $232,300

Boeing seeks a software engineer to design and implement cybersecurity controls for satellite simulators in a zero-trust environment, working across the full software development lifecycle. This role suits experienced engineers or leads comfortable with complex security requirements, DevOps practices, and collaborative multi-disciplinary teams.

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Workday

Full-time · Pleasanton, CA · $176,000 – $264,000

A full-stack engineer role on Workday's AI contract management platform, building and operating cloud-based SaaS products alongside engineers, product managers, and data scientists. Suits experienced software engineers comfortable owning systems end-to-end in fast-paced, collaborative environments.

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NIO

Full-time · San Jose, CA · $192,100 – $249,600

NIO is hiring a senior engineer to build production inference systems for large language and vision models across cloud and edge devices in their autonomous vehicle platform. This role suits someone with deep experience optimizing AI workloads on accelerators who wants to ship real-world impact at scale.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $201,000 · Remote

Notion seeks a Software Engineer to build foundational AI platform systems that enable product teams to ship AI features safely and quickly at scale. This role suits engineers experienced with LLM or ML infrastructure who enjoy solving complex reliability, latency, and cost challenges across distributed systems.

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