Software Engineer jobs in California

Pylon

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

Pylon seeks a full-stack software engineer to build AI-powered features for their B2B customer support platform, working end-to-end with autonomy and shipping quickly. This role suits experienced engineers who thrive in startup environments, have strong product instincts, and want to leverage AI to solve real customer problems.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $170,000 – $245,000 · Remote

Anyscale is hiring an engineer to optimize large-scale LLM inference systems, building infrastructure that developers can use to run machine learning models efficiently from laptop to cluster. This role suits someone with distributed systems expertise who wants to work on high-performance AI infrastructure and contribute to open-source projects like Ray and vLLM.

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XPeng

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

XPeng seeks a senior engineer to design and optimize end-to-end data pipelines for autonomous driving systems, handling petabyte-scale sensor data from collection through model training. This role suits experienced infrastructure engineers who want to work on mission-critical systems that directly accelerate autonomous vehicle development.

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Agility Robotics

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

You'll design and build the core software architecture for teleoperating Agility's humanoid robots, focusing on real-time control systems, low-latency data collection, and seamless human-robot interaction across warehouse and manufacturing deployments. This role suits experienced systems engineers who excel at building scalable, production-grade software for hardware-intensive applications and can work autonomously across multiple technical domains.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $280,000

This role leads the design and implementation of observability platforms for an AI infrastructure company, building monitoring, logging, and tracing systems that help teams understand and optimize distributed AI systems. It suits experienced backend engineers comfortable with cloud-native tools, infrastructure-as-code, and the operational challenges of scaling high-performance systems.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $130,000 – $175,000

This role develops and maintains the software that controls and monitors satellites in orbit, working across avionics, ground systems, and testing infrastructure. It suits engineers with embedded systems experience who want to work on mission-critical aerospace software at a well-funded company.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $234,240 – $351,360

This role builds autonomy software for unmanned vehicles across air, maritime, space, and effects platforms, integrating capabilities from multiple teams and taking code from simulation through live field tests. It suits experienced engineers who want to see their work operate in real systems and are ready to lead small teams and mentor peers.

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Bend Studio

Full-time · Aliso Viejo, CA · $177,300 – $265,900

Build performance-sensitive streaming and systems software at PlayStation using modern AI-assisted development practices. This role suits experienced engineers who combine deep systems expertise with comfort operating in ambiguity and want to shape emerging cloud-delivered gaming experiences.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $202,500 – $274,000

A staff-level full-stack engineer role building scalable cloud and AI-integrated applications at Intuit, suited to experienced technologists comfortable mentoring others and leading cross-team initiatives in enterprise environments.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $250,000 – $300,000

This role automates deployment and testing for Crusoe's AI infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines and orchestration of large-scale GPU clusters across multiple datacenters. It suits deeply experienced infrastructure engineers who want to work on low-level systems automation at the cutting edge of AI compute.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

This role leads infrastructure engineering for Anthropic's Interpretability team, building secure, scalable systems that give researchers safe access to frontier AI models while maintaining privacy and enabling rapid iteration. It's ideal for a senior engineer who thrives bridging research and platform teams, comfortable with ambiguity and experienced in building systems at scale.

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Relativity Space

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $154,000 – $230,000

This role owns the infrastructure for an interconnected stack of AI agent systems that engineers depend on daily, combining systems administration, networking, and software engineering. It suits someone with hands-on experience deploying real-world agentic systems who enjoys building production infrastructure in an early-stage, high-impact environment.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $248,000 – $391,000

This Principal-level role leads the technical vision and architecture for vehicle dynamics simulation systems that help autonomous vehicle engineers validate driving behavior in diverse scenarios. You'll design production C++ frameworks, establish validation workflows, and mentor engineers across NVIDIA's AV simulation platform.

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Boeing

Full-time · Seal Beach, CA

Boeing seeks a software engineer to develop mission planning tools for satellite command and control systems supporting U.S. military nuclear communications. This role suits someone with space systems experience who can own features across the full development stack in a DevSecOps environment.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $130,000 – $150,000 · Remote

This is an early-career role for engineers with 0–2 years of experience to build AI-powered features at Notion, working across product engineering, model systems, or evaluation frameworks. It suits developers who want hands-on exposure to large language models and production AI systems while contributing to features millions of users rely on.

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Amplitude

San Francisco, CA · $165,000 – $276,000

This role combines engineering with customer success, placing you directly in enterprise implementation engagements where you'll architect solutions, write production code, and drive measurable outcomes. It suits engineers who thrive owning projects end-to-end and prefer building for real customers over traditional support work.

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Agility Robotics

Full-time · Fremont, CA · $155,000 – $241,000

This role leads the development of real-time motion planning and navigation systems for humanoid robots operating in logistics and manufacturing environments. It suits experienced robotics engineers who want to own critical systems that enable autonomous locomotion, collision avoidance, and multi-robot coordination at scale.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $290,000

A backend engineer role focused on building and optimizing the inference platform that serves large language models and multimodal AI at scale. Ideal for someone who thrives on low-latency optimization, distributed systems design, and making cutting-edge ML research production-ready across thousands of GPUs.

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Astranis

San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $235,000

This role develops embedded flight software for commercial and government satellites in orbit, working on everything from firmware for control boards to Earth station hub systems. It suits senior engineers with deep C++ expertise and a track record building reliable, high-availability systems who want to contribute directly to space infrastructure.

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Shield AI

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

This role leads the integration of autonomy software onto unmanned platforms across air, maritime, and space domains, writing core behaviors and control systems while shepherding code from simulation through live field operations. It suits senior engineers who want hands-on involvement in autonomous systems that actually deploy into the real world and are ready to mentor others and set technical direction across multiple programs.

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