Software Engineer jobs in California

Crusoe

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

Crusoe seeks a senior staff engineer to serve as a floating technical leader across their managed platform services organization, tackling problems from data center automation to distributed systems reliability and new product exploration. This role suits experienced engineers comfortable with ambiguity and context-switching who can drive technical outcomes across organizational boundaries and mentor others.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA

This is an entry-level software engineering role for recent graduates or those with minimal professional experience, open to frontend, backend, fullstack, or mobile development tracks. The position offers mentorship and hands-on learning in a fast-paced fintech environment where you'll contribute to products serving millions of users across cloud, mobile, and SaaS platforms.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $224,000 – $356,500

This role leads the design and development of GPU firmware infrastructure platforms, including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and test automation that enable NVIDIA's product teams to ship faster. It suits senior engineers with deep expertise in distributed systems, DevOps, and platform architecture who thrive on solving complex cross-organizational engineering challenges.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $190,000 – $330,000

This role leads technical strategy and execution across Shield AI's autonomy software ecosystem, working as part of an elite team that steers technology development from the CTO's office. It suits experienced engineers from diverse backgrounds who can operate in ambiguity and make high-impact contributions across multiple foundational products simultaneously.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $210,000 – $255,000

Crusoe seeks a Staff Engineer to own anomaly detection, alerting logic, and customer-facing insights across their AI infrastructure platform. This role blends detection system design, ML/RL integration, and full-stack product engineering for someone with deep expertise in building reliable detection pipelines at scale.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $261,500 – $353,500

Intuit is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead major technology initiatives with a focus on AI-native applications, working across the full stack to solve complex customer problems at scale. This role suits experienced engineers who thrive in matrix environments, mentor others, and want to shape the future of AI in financial software.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $152,000 – $241,500

This role builds and maintains the infrastructure that GPU firmware teams depend on, including CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and developer tooling. It suits engineers who enjoy automating toil and designing systems that multiply team productivity across the company.

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Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · $175,000 – $210,000

Crusoe seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and operate security infrastructure—PKI, secrets management, and automation systems—that protect their AI infrastructure at scale. This role combines platform engineering with security expertise, requiring someone who can architect and deploy production-grade systems under full ownership from design through operational monitoring.

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Shield AI

Full-time · Los Angeles, CA · $224,000 – $335,000

This role involves architecting and developing real-time software for autonomous aircraft mission computing systems, managing the full lifecycle from design reviews through flight testing and deployment. It suits engineers experienced in embedded systems, real-time software, and hardware-software integration who can work across multidisciplinary teams on defense applications.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $168,000 – $310,500

NVIDIA is seeking a senior software engineer to design and build large-scale graph processing infrastructure for semiconductor CAD tools, using graph neural networks to handle trillion-edge datasets. The role combines architectural design with hands-on implementation, requiring someone comfortable bridging software engineering, machine learning, and EDA domain knowledge.

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Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · $170,000 – $205,000

Design and operate Crusoe Cloud's billing platform, architecting systems for metering, pricing, invoicing, and payments that must handle AI infrastructure's scale and financial accuracy demands. This role suits experienced backend engineers who thrive on owning complex, high-stakes distributed systems end-to-end and collaborating across product, finance, and engineering teams.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $168,000 – $310,500

Lead the design and implementation of workflows and automation that keep NVIDIA's chip specifications aligned across architecture, silicon, and manufacturing throughout the product lifecycle. This role suits senior engineers with deep silicon expertise, Python proficiency, and a track record of driving cross-organizational adoption of complex technical infrastructure.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $208,725 – $253,000

Crusoe seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Developer Experience team, building tools and infrastructure that enable all engineers to work efficiently across the entire software development lifecycle. This role suits experienced infrastructure and DevOps leaders who want to shape technical direction at a fast-growing AI infrastructure company.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $114,266 – $171,400

Shield AI is seeking a senior automation engineer to build testing infrastructure and CI/CD systems for their autonomy platform used in unmanned aircraft and robots. This role suits someone with strong Python and distributed systems experience who wants to work on mission-critical reliability in defense technology.

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