Software Engineer jobs in California

Zilliz

Redwood City, CA · $175,000 – $225,000

Zilliz seeks a senior engineer to join their cloud platform team, building and operating distributed database systems at scale. This role suits engineers comfortable with high ownership, automation-focused work, and direct responsibility for production reliability in a fast-growing startup.

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Suno

Full-time · Los Angeles, CA · $188,000 – $247,000

Android engineer position at Suno, a music creation platform powered by AI. This role suits developers who want to build consumer-facing media applications and own features across a rapidly growing product.

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Astranis

San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $235,000

Design and develop flight software for satellites in high orbits, working on both commercial and government programs. This role suits experienced embedded systems engineers who want to mentor others and see their code operating in space.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $130,000 – $240,000

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer who will primarily design and build frontend applications in TypeScript and React to support their Hivemind autonomy platform. This role suits engineers who enjoy creating intuitive user-facing tools and developer platforms that help internal teams understand complex systems and accelerate software development.

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Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $155,000 – $190,000 · Remote

This role involves designing and operating infrastructure for Sentry's real-time data streaming platform, focusing on distributed systems that handle hundreds of thousands of events per second. It suits engineers experienced with Kafka, cloud infrastructure, and streaming technologies who enjoy building abstractions that simplify complex systems for other teams.

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Crusoe

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

Crusoe seeks a senior engineer to design and operate their billing platform for AI infrastructure services, handling metering, pricing, invoicing, and financial ledger systems at scale. The role combines deep technical leadership in distributed systems with cross-functional collaboration to ensure billing accuracy and support the company's growing cloud business.

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Intuit

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

This role leads the technical architecture and strategy for a widely-used design system that serves hundreds of engineers across the company, requiring someone who can bridge design and engineering to build scalable, performant component libraries. You'll champion developer experience, accessibility standards, and AI-augmented workflows while collaborating across product, design, and engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges at scale.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $226,000 – $283,000 · Remote

This role owns the user-facing layer of Anyscale's distributed ML platform, building CLIs, SDKs, APIs, and observability tools that let developers run AI workloads from laptop to cluster. It suits someone with strong production engineering chops and product sense who enjoys building developer tooling and ML infrastructure.

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NVIDIA

Internship · Santa Clara, CA · $20 – $71 / hour

NVIDIA is seeking software engineering interns for a 12-week full-time program across multiple specialties including development tools, cloud infrastructure, tools infrastructure, and machine learning operations. The role suits ambitious students pursuing a degree in computer science or related fields who want hands-on experience building industry-leading software at a company transforming AI and accelerated computing.

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Relativity Space

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $115,000 – $173,000

You'll build AI systems and applications that help engineers and operators across Relativity's rocket manufacturing and launch operations. This role is for software engineers comfortable working across the full development lifecycle with foundation models, data infrastructure, and cloud platforms in a fast-moving, hands-on environment.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $150,000 – $200,000 · Remote

This role builds foundational systems and data abstractions that power Notion's platform, enabling both internal developers and product teams to work more efficiently. It suits engineers who enjoy solving large-scale architectural problems and have experience with full-stack infrastructure challenges across databases, backends, and frontends.

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NIO

Full-time · San Jose, CA · $143,200 – $186,000

NIO is hiring a senior systems engineer to design and optimize the full-stack operating system powering their electric vehicles, from kernel and drivers through to production deployment. This role suits experienced systems programmers who want to work on safety-critical, performance-intensive code across multiple CPU architectures in an automotive context.

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Amplitude

San Francisco, CA · $167,000 – $230,000

This role involves designing and maintaining the query execution engine that powers analytics across Amplitude's product suite, sitting between customer-facing features and the underlying database. You'll work on distributed systems challenges like query planning, semantic layers, and data modeling while collaborating with multiple product teams that depend on your infrastructure.

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Pylon

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $280,000

Pylon seeks an infrastructure engineer to design and operate their cloud systems end-to-end, focusing on observability, scaling, and developer velocity for an AI-native support platform. This suits someone with backend infrastructure experience who enjoys solving reliability and performance problems at a fast-growing startup.

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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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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $270,000 – $300,000

A hands-on technical role working directly with Together AI's strategic customers to optimize their production AI inference systems. This position combines deep expertise in inference engines and performance tuning with customer partnership, making it ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems at scale while maintaining close relationships with key clients.

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Agility Robotics

Full-time · Fremont, CA · $190,000 – $296,000

You'll design and build the core software architecture for teleoperating Agility's humanoid robots, focusing on real-time control systems, low-latency data collection, and seamless human-robot interaction across warehouse and manufacturing deployments. This role suits experienced systems engineers who excel at building scalable, production-grade software for hardware-intensive applications and can work autonomously across multiple technical domains.

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CharacterAI

Redwood City, CA · $150,000 – $300,000 · Remote

A front-end engineer role building interfaces for an AI-powered conversational platform serving 20+ million monthly users. This suits engineers passionate about design systems, user experience, and shipping polished consumer products in a fast-paced environment.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $280,000

This role develops the embedded software that controls and monitors Astranis satellites in orbit, handling everything from flight computer logic to firmware for control boards. It's suited to experienced embedded systems engineers who want to work on space technology at scale, with mentorship responsibilities and cross-team collaboration on both commercial and government missions.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $200,000 – $300,000

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design and develop a safety-critical Run-Time Assurance system for autonomous aircraft and platforms. The role focuses on C++ development, safety system integration, and ensuring reliable real-time safety capabilities in production autonomy systems.

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