Software Engineer jobs in California

Crusoe

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

Crusoe is hiring a senior engineer to design and operate real-time streaming systems that process observability data across their AI infrastructure cloud. This role suits experienced distributed systems engineers who want to work on high-throughput data pipelines at scale in a rapidly growing AI infrastructure company.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $220,000 – $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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Bend Studio

San Mateo, CA · $193,300 – $289,900

This role focuses on architecting and optimizing video codec technology for PlayStation's SDKs and cloud gaming services, working across GPU programming and algorithm innovation. It suits experienced engineers comfortable with low-level performance optimization, multimedia systems, and cross-team collaboration on complex technical challenges.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

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

A software engineer role building Claude Security, Anthropic's cybersecurity product suite. You'll work across the full stack from prototype to production, balancing research insights with customer needs to ship features that matter.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $152,000 – $287,500

NVIDIA seeks a senior engineer to design and implement features for the CUDA driver, working across the full GPU computing stack from kernel components to programming models. The role suits experienced systems software developers who want to influence the architecture of GPU-accelerated computing platforms.

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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 · $285,000 – $335,000

Principal-level systems architect role building Conductor, an operating system for AI datacenters that manages GPU fleets at scale. This suits deeply experienced infrastructure engineers who have architected distributed control planes and want to lead a 0→1 platform spanning 100,000+ GPUs across global sites.

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Bend Studio

San Mateo, CA · $193,300 – $289,900

This role involves building and maintaining SDKs and frameworks that power user experiences across PlayStation platforms, working with internal teams to ensure high performance and good developer experience. It suits someone with several years of software development experience who is comfortable writing performant C++ code and modern JavaScript, and who enjoys designing APIs that other developers will use.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $315,000 – $560,000

This role builds the computational infrastructure and tooling that lets researchers understand how large language models actually work internally, rather than treating them as black boxes. It's suited to experienced software engineers who want to work on AI safety through hands-on infrastructure work, enjoy translating research needs into systems, and are comfortable optimizing across the full stack from GPU kernels to user-facing tools.

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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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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $130,000 – $200,000

This role leads simulation platform development for autonomous aircraft systems at a defense-tech company, requiring expertise in C++ modeling, aeronautics, and multiphysics to validate complex flight algorithms. It suits experienced engineers who can bridge theoretical physics and practical performance analysis across hardware-in-the-loop and AI-driven simulation environments.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

San Francisco, CA · $500,000 – $850,000

Anthropic is hiring a Staff-level engineer to build the data infrastructure that prepares massive text corpora for training large language models. You'll design scalable, reliable systems for tokenization, deduplication, and quality assurance—bridging research innovation with production engineering at one of the leading AI safety organizations.

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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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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $170,000 – $205,000

This Senior Software Engineer role owns Crusoe's container registry, a critical component in their AI infrastructure platform. The position suits experienced distributed systems engineers who want to optimize high-scale, production systems and mentor other engineers.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $152,480 – $228,720 · Remote

This role focuses on integrating autonomy capabilities into Shield AI's Hivemind platform and validating them for real-world use, working closely with both engineering teams and customers to ensure the SDK is intuitive and complete. You'll act as a bridge between product development and field applications, identifying gaps in the platform and guiding improvements based on practical autonomous systems workflows.

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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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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 Diego, CA · $95,000 – $200,000

Shield AI is seeking a software engineer to build and maintain test automation infrastructure for their autonomous aircraft and related systems. This role suits developers with strong testing expertise who want to work on mission-critical defense technology across multiple software domains.

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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 · $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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