Software Engineer jobs in California

NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $136,000 – $218,500

NVIDIA's Clocks group seeks a software engineer to design and develop tools for RTL generation across GPU products, improving algorithms for automated connectivity and Verilog processing. This role suits someone comfortable bridging software and hardware domains, with strong C++ skills and ASIC design knowledge.

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Crusoe

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

Crusoe seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to architect and build the software-defined networking stack powering their AI-first cloud infrastructure, optimizing for extreme throughput and low latency on GPU clusters. This role suits a deep systems engineer with Linux kernel expertise and high-performance networking experience who can influence technical direction while mentoring a growing team.

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Intuit

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

A senior full-stack engineering role at Intuit building cloud-native financial software that helps small businesses access capital. This suits experienced engineers who enjoy shipping end-to-end features, mentoring others, and applying AI to both product and development practices.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $150,000 – $230,000

Staff-level role designing and building a data platform that integrates configurations, training data, and operational signals through a knowledge-graph API. Suits experienced engineers who want hands-on technical leadership balancing developer productivity, system performance, and long-term maintainability in a defense-tech context.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $152,000 – $287,500

Optimize performance of NVIDIA's RTX and DGX chips for AI agent applications, working with partners and OSS projects to accelerate real-world workflows. This role suits experienced software engineers who excel at profiling, debugging, and performance tuning across CPU and GPU workloads.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $171,000 – $231,500

This role involves designing and implementing technical integrations between fintech platforms and client systems, with hands-on responsibility for API development, SDK maintenance, and troubleshooting. It suits experienced engineers who enjoy solving complex integration problems and want to work across the full technical stack from architecture through testing and documentation.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $172,425 – $209,000

Crusoe seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead developer experience infrastructure across their AI compute platform, building tools and automation that accelerate engineering productivity across the entire SDLC. This role suits experienced infrastructure engineers who thrive on eliminating toil, designing scalable developer workflows, and shaping long-term technical direction at a rapidly growing company.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $104,000 – $202,000

Shield AI is seeking a senior engineer to improve developer experience for their autonomy software platform, working between tool builders and customers to ensure effective human-machine teaming. This role suits someone who has shipped software and prefers raising quality across an organization to owning individual services.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $184,000 – $287,500

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer to work on the CUDA driver and runtime, optimizing performance across GPU compute platforms used in deep learning, scientific computing, and graphics. This role suits someone with strong low-level systems expertise who can solve complex performance problems across the full software and hardware stack.

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Crusoe

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

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and operate the observability infrastructure that powers their cloud platform, building high-throughput systems for metrics and logs that serve customers running AI workloads at scale. This role suits experienced distributed systems builders who have solved real-world challenges in data pipelines and multi-tenant systems, and who want to lead architecture decisions and mentor other engineers.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $195,840 – $293,760

Shield AI seeks a senior engineer to integrate autonomy software onto unmanned aircraft platforms, bridging research prototypes to field-ready systems that support defense operations. This role demands hands-on expertise in systems integration, flight testing, and troubleshooting across hardware and software in demanding real-world conditions.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $152,000 – $230,000

NVIDIA seeks a senior engineer to develop data analytics and machine learning solutions for design-for-test methodology on advanced semiconductor chips, working with pre- and post-silicon data to solve complex validation challenges. This role suits engineers with strong backgrounds in data pipelines, statistical analysis, and applied AI who want to impact chip architecture at a leading semiconductor company.

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Intuit

San Diego, CA · $188,500 – $274,000

This Staff Engineer role leads technical strategy for Intuit's central traffic platform, which handles API Gateway and Service Mesh operations across all products. The position focuses on securing AI agent access through the MCP Gateway and automating traffic operations with AI agents, requiring deep expertise in distributed systems, Envoy/Istio, and the ability to influence across the organization without direct authority.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $175,000 – $210,000

Crusoe is hiring a senior engineer to design and operate customer-facing observability products for their cloud monitoring service, including APIs, backends, and self-service configuration tools. This role suits experienced distributed-systems engineers who enjoy owning products end-to-end and working directly with customer feedback to improve reliability and ease of use.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $272,000 – $431,250

NVIDIA seeks a Principal Software Engineer to architect and lead system software for next-generation data center platforms, serving as the technical lead for cloud service provider partnerships. This role is for someone who can drive critical design decisions, resolve complex customer issues, and bridge software-hardware concerns across large-scale infrastructure projects.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $152,000 – $318,000 · Remote

Shield AI seeks a technical engineer to deploy autonomy software directly with customers in the field, often traveling internationally for multi-week engagements. The role suits experienced problem-solvers who thrive on hands-on customer collaboration and are comfortable with intensive travel.

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Crusoe

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

Build and operate the billing platform powering Crusoe's AI infrastructure cloud service, managing metering, pricing, invoicing, and payments at scale. This role is for a staff-level engineer with deep experience in financial systems, distributed architectures, and the leadership skills to guide a team through designing mission-critical billing infrastructure.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $152,000 – $287,500

NVIDIA seeks a senior software engineer to design and maintain optimized communication runtimes and system software for GPU clusters in AI and HPC applications. This role suits someone with deep systems knowledge who wants to work on foundational infrastructure powering machine learning and scientific computing.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $135,000 – $350,000

Shield AI seeks a senior staff engineer to develop advanced planning algorithms for autonomous flight systems that operate in complex and uncertain environments. This role combines artificial intelligence, optimization, and motion planning work with architectural and mentorship responsibilities for a defense-tech autonomy platform.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $140,000 – $165,000

Crusoe is hiring a Software Engineer to design and operate cloud platform services that power AI infrastructure at scale. This role suits someone with 3-5 years of experience building distributed systems who wants to own core infrastructure components and mentor teammates while working across cloud, energy, and data center teams.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $124,000 – $195,500

NVIDIA seeks a new graduate engineer to optimize GPU-accelerated applications for federal government use, working with customers and internal teams to enhance performance across diverse computing domains. This role suits computer scientists who combine strong parallel programming skills with interest in solving complex problems at the intersection of high-performance computing and public sector needs.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $190,000 – $290,000

A staff-level infrastructure engineer developing core software platforms that integrate autonomous systems for defense applications. The role focuses on building scalable, reliable foundation systems that move from development to real-world deployment across Shield AI's defense-tech portfolio.

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