Software Engineer jobs in California

Sentry

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $220,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This role focuses on integrating AI coding agents into Sentry's development workflows, building the APIs and infrastructure those agents need to operate reliably and autonomously. It suits experienced engineers comfortable spanning infrastructure and developer tooling who want to shape how AI assists software development at scale.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $215,000 – $260,000

This role embeds you with internal Crusoe teams to build software that automates their work and accelerates decision-making through interactive tools, dashboards, and AI agents. It suits experienced full-stack engineers who thrive in ambiguity, move quickly, and measure success by stakeholder outcomes rather than shipping features in a vacuum.

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Intuit

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

This role leads iOS technical strategy and architecture for QuickBooks' workforce solutions products, overseeing multi-team development and AI integration. It suits experienced iOS engineers who want to shape platform direction, mentor others, and work on intelligent features for millions of small business users.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $240,000 · Remote

This infrastructure engineering role focuses on building and optimizing the control plane and data plane systems that power Anyscale's distributed AI computing platform. It suits experienced backend engineers with strong cloud-native and Kubernetes expertise who want to work on high-impact infrastructure serving companies like OpenAI and Uber.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $152,000 – $287,500

NVIDIA is seeking a senior engineer to build AI agent systems that automate simulation, evaluation, and performance analysis for their inference and hardware platforms. The role combines AI expertise with performance engineering to help optimize emerging workloads across GPU and future LPU systems.

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Relativity Space

Full-time · Long Beach, CA · $154,000 – $230,000

This role owns the infrastructure for an interconnected stack of AI agent systems that engineers depend on daily, combining systems administration, networking, and software engineering. It suits someone with hands-on experience deploying real-world agentic systems who enjoys building production infrastructure in an early-stage, high-impact environment.

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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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NIO

Full-time · San Jose, CA · $192,100 – $249,600

NIO is hiring a senior engineer to build production inference systems for large language and vision models across cloud and edge devices in their autonomous vehicle platform. This role suits someone with deep experience optimizing AI workloads on accelerators who wants to ship real-world impact at scale.

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Pylon

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

Pylon seeks a full-stack software engineer to build AI-powered features for their B2B customer support platform, working end-to-end with autonomy and shipping quickly. This role suits experienced engineers who thrive in startup environments, have strong product instincts, and want to leverage AI to solve real customer problems.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $130,000 – $150,000 · Remote

This is an early-career role for engineers with 0–2 years of experience to build AI-powered features at Notion, working across product engineering, model systems, or evaluation frameworks. It suits developers who want hands-on exposure to large language models and production AI systems while contributing to features millions of users rely on.

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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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Together AI

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

This role leads the design and implementation of observability platforms for an AI infrastructure company, building monitoring, logging, and tracing systems that help teams understand and optimize distributed AI systems. It suits experienced backend engineers comfortable with cloud-native tools, infrastructure-as-code, and the operational challenges of scaling high-performance systems.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $100,000 – $150,000

This role develops software that bridges simulation environments with autonomous systems, writing adapters and components that help autonomy teams work with modeling and simulation tools. It suits early-career engineers interested in defense technology, simulation frameworks, and systems integration.

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Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $240,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This Staff Engineer role involves building AI-powered debugging systems that automatically triage and solve production issues, with responsibility for setting technical direction as models and capabilities evolve. The position suits experienced engineers who have shipped LLM systems in production and want to own major AI initiatives end-to-end while working across product and developer teams.

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Crusoe

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

A senior backend engineer role building the foundational cloud platform services that support Crusoe's AI infrastructure business. You'll own critical systems like the API gateway, quota management, and customer notifications while working on scaling and reliability as the customer base grows.

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Intuit

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

A staff-level full-stack engineer role building scalable cloud and AI-integrated applications at Intuit, suited to experienced technologists comfortable mentoring others and leading cross-team initiatives in enterprise environments.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $181,000 – $271,000

A staff-level infrastructure engineer role focused on building and operating a stack of interconnected agentic AI systems that support aerospace engineering work. This suits someone with deep production infrastructure experience who has deployed agent frameworks in real environments and wants to evolve emerging technologies from prototypes into reliable systems that other engineers depend on daily.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $272,000 – $431,250

A principal-level systems software engineer role focused on designing and implementing core GPU kernel scheduling features within NVIDIA's CUDA Driver platform. This position suits experienced C/C++ developers with deep OS-level knowledge who want to shape the software foundation enabling AI, scientific computing, and graphics workloads on NVIDIA hardware.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $130,000 – $150,000

Join Notion as an early-career software engineer (0–2 years experience) building core product features, AI integrations, and platform infrastructure that millions use daily. This role suits engineers who want meaningful ownership, customer impact, and mentorship from experienced teams while shipping real features end-to-end.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $170,000 – $245,000 · Remote

Anyscale is hiring an engineer to optimize large-scale LLM inference systems, building infrastructure that developers can use to run machine learning models efficiently from laptop to cluster. This role suits someone with distributed systems expertise who wants to work on high-performance AI infrastructure and contribute to open-source projects like Ray and vLLM.

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