Software Engineer jobs in California

Bend Studio

Contract · Aliso Viejo, CA

Sony is building a new cloud engineering team and needs a senior backend engineer to design and own features in distributed systems powering their cloud streaming platforms. This role suits someone with deep expertise in Java, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale system reliability who wants to help establish technical standards for a growing team.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $184,000 – $287,500

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Perception Engineer to develop 3D obstacle detection models for autonomous vehicles, working on camera, radar, and lidar fusion pipelines using modern deep learning architectures. This role suits experienced computer vision engineers who want to move perception systems from research to production at scale.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $260,000 – $340,000

Crusoe is seeking a visionary infrastructure architect to design the core systems powering their AI compute platform, unifying bare-metal, virtualized, and containerized workloads into a unified high-performance fabric. This role demands deep expertise in kernel internals, GPU I/O optimization, and hyperscale cloud architecture, suited for someone who has shipped production infrastructure at major cloud providers and is ready to redefine AI infrastructure design.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

This role builds internal tooling and platforms for investigating and addressing harmful behavior across Anthropic's AI products, combining full-stack engineering with cross-functional work across policy, legal, and operations teams. It suits experienced platform engineers who want to apply their skills directly to AI safety and can thrive in roles that serve non-technical stakeholders rather than end users.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $131,000 – $197,000

Relativity Space seeks a senior developer to design and maintain integrations between Workday and enterprise systems across their rocket manufacturing and launch operations. You'll work across HR, IT, and technical teams to build scalable solutions that automate workflows from materials intake through Mars manufacturing.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $213,000 – $334,000 · Remote

This role involves building and scaling AI-powered features for Notion's Custom Agents product, working at the intersection of machine learning, backend systems, and user-facing product development. It suits engineers who enjoy shipping end-to-end features with real impact and are energized by the intersection of AI technologies and product design.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $220,000 – $290,000

Build and operate the infrastructure layer that powers Together AI's cloud platform, managing GPU clusters, Kubernetes systems, and distributed scheduling across global data centers. This role suits someone with strong systems expertise and 5+ years of production backend experience who wants to work on large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure.

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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 · $272,000 – $431,250

A principal-level engineer focused on making NVIDIA's systems reliable at hyperscale, working with major cloud providers to measure and improve mean-time-between-interruptions for GPU platforms in production. This role suits someone with deep datacenter systems expertise and a track record of translating fleet reliability data into actionable improvements across firmware, drivers, and hardware.

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Crusoe

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

Crusoe seeks a software engineer to build diagnostics, monitoring, and automation tools for managing large GPU compute clusters and the data centers that host them. This role suits someone comfortable working independently on infrastructure challenges who wants to work on systems at scale supporting AI workloads.

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Bend Studio

Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $137,300 – $205,900

This role involves building and maintaining the cross-platform application framework that powers PlayStation's user experiences, working across JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, and native platform integration. It suits engineers with framework or SDK development experience who want to work on developer-facing tools at scale.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

This role leads the design and operation of configuration and experimentation infrastructure that enables engineers across Anthropic to safely test and roll out changes at scale. You'll own the technical strategy for feature flagging, dynamic configuration, and A/B testing platforms while working independently on high-impact systems that support both research and production workloads.

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Notion

San Francisco, CA · $213,000 – $320,000 · Remote

This role leads the development of Notion's database block and related features, requiring an experienced engineer to design database properties, views, and permission systems at scale. It suits senior engineers with a strong track record of shipping complex products end-to-end and an interest in shaping how teams model and work with data.

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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

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

Staff-level engineer building risk and compliance systems for Intuit's fintech platform, combining front-end and back-end development with AI/ML capabilities. Suits architects with deep experience across React, Java, Spring Boot, and financial services who can lead technical strategy and mentor others.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $152,000 – $228,000

This role bridges autonomy software with operational platforms across a diverse portfolio of aircraft, weapons, and maritime systems. It suits engineers who excel at cross-disciplinary integration challenges and want to see autonomy transition from development into real-world operational use.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

San Francisco, CA · $405,000 – $485,000

This role leads the technical strategy and hands-on development of an agent runtime platform that boosts productivity across Anthropic's research and engineering teams. You'll architect scalable infrastructure for agentic work, own operational excellence, and directly shape how AI transforms internal workflows at a frontier AI safety company.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $152,000 – $250,000 · Remote

Notion seeks an AI Applications Engineer to build production AI solutions that drive business transformation across internal teams. This role suits someone with strong software engineering foundations and hands-on experience shipping AI systems end-to-end, who thrives translating ambiguous business problems into measurable impact.

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