Software Engineer jobs in California

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $168,000 – $310,500

NVIDIA seeks an engineer to build AI-powered tools and agents that automate complex tasks in their chip design workflows, from documentation systems to coding assistants. This role suits someone experienced shipping LLM applications who can identify manual bottlenecks and transform them into practical AI solutions.

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Intuit

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

This role involves architecting a unified API platform that automatically generates agent-ready specifications and tooling from a single source of truth, enabling AI agents to safely invoke Intuit's fintech capabilities at scale. The position suits senior engineers with deep API design expertise, experience with AI agent frameworks, and the ability to drive cross-team technical direction in a fintech context.

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Crusoe

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

Crusoe is hiring a Software Engineer II to build and operate their container registry, a critical service that packages and delivers AI training and inference workloads to customers. The role focuses on distributed systems, performance optimization, and reliability in a high-scale cloud infrastructure environment.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $230,000 – $350,000 · Remote

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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Bend Studio

Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $182,481 – $245,500

Sony Interactive Entertainment is hiring a Software Engineer II to build and maintain production-quality applications and services for the PlayStation platform. This role suits developers with 2+ years of experience in React and full-stack JavaScript who want to work on consumer-facing entertainment technology at scale.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $181,000 – $271,000

This role focuses on building a fault-tolerant storage platform for a space-based data center, handling custom Linux kernel drivers, ZFS pool architecture, and automated recovery systems that must survive years of radiation exposure in orbit. It suits experienced kernel engineers who combine deep storage systems knowledge with the ability to design and validate hardware-adjacent software for mission-critical environments.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

This role builds and validates the infrastructure that runs Claude across multiple cloud platforms, ensuring models launch reliably and perform consistently everywhere. It suits senior engineers experienced in large-scale distributed systems who want to work on high-leverage infrastructure that directly gates how fast frontier AI ships to production.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $175,000 – $240,000 · Remote

A Forward Deployed Engineer embeds with enterprise customers to design and build custom integrations, AI agents, and data solutions on Notion's platform, acting as both technical implementer and trusted advisor. This role suits experienced engineers who enjoy hands-on problem-solving across the full implementation lifecycle and want to shape how enterprise customers adopt complex technical platforms.

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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 · $117,000 – $138,000

Crusoe is hiring a junior engineer to help build and operate cloud storage infrastructure, working alongside experienced engineers on distributed systems and storage features. This role suits early-career engineers who want to learn storage engineering fundamentals while contributing to high-performance systems.

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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 · $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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Bend Studio

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $177,300 – $265,900

Build and automate large-scale data platforms serving millions of PlayStation players, focusing on reliability, scalability, and infrastructure automation across cloud environments. This role suits experienced backend engineers who enjoy designing distributed systems and want to mentor others while eliminating operational toil through automation.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

This role leads the infrastructure that delivers Claude AI across multiple cloud platforms, balancing performance and cost at massive scale. It's ideal for backend engineers who excel at cross-platform system design and can navigate the complexity of serving billions of inference requests across AWS, GCP, Azure, and beyond.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $181,000 – $271,000

This role owns the flight software that controls spacecraft behavior across all mission phases for deep-space exploration missions. It suits an experienced embedded systems engineer comfortable with full-stack responsibility, from requirements through flight operations, who wants to work on real spaceflight systems at a company moving fast in the commercial space sector.

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NVIDIA

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

NVIDIA seeks an engineer to develop software that accelerates their chip design processes, building tools and methodologies that work with EDA vendors to improve how ASIC teams design and verify silicon. This role suits someone with hands-on chip design experience who can write production code and understands where design workflows slow down.

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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 · $150,000 – $220,000

Lead the data analysis infrastructure for Shield AI's V-BAT autonomous aircraft platform, owning the pipelines and metrics that translate flight test and operational data into engineering insights. This role suits someone comfortable bridging software and hardware systems who can work across multiple teams to solve complex data problems at scale.

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Bend Studio

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $150,000 – $225,000

Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks an AI software engineer to design and deploy production AI systems—including LLM-powered workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic systems—that solve real business problems across PlayStation's digital commerce and player-facing services. This role suits a strong backend or platform engineer with hands-on experience building applied AI features and shipping them reliably to scale.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $154,000 – $230,000

You'll lead the design and implementation of flight-critical software for deep-space spacecraft, owning the full lifecycle from requirements through mission operations. This role suits experienced embedded systems engineers who thrive on autonomous problem-solving and want to build the autonomous systems enabling planetary science missions.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

San Francisco, CA · $320,000 – $405,000 · Remote

A staff-level engineer will build AI-powered tools across Anthropic's hiring, onboarding, and people management systems, working directly with Claude and internal stakeholders to ship full-stack features at pace. This role suits experienced engineers who have shipped LLM products and thrive owning complex projects end-to-end in a low-structure environment.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $184,000 – $287,500

NVIDIA is seeking a senior AI engineer to rebuild its silicon productization toolchain around AI, integrating simulation and configuration systems with LLM-backed agents to optimize chip design from pre-silicon through production. The role suits experienced engineers comfortable bridging silicon, firmware, and machine learning to automate complex chip behavior analysis and prevent quality issues before products ship.

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