Jobs in California

NIO

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

This role focuses on diagnosing and eliminating performance bottlenecks in CPU and virtualization systems using hardware profiling tools and microarchitectural analysis. It suits experienced systems engineers who combine deep processor architecture knowledge with Linux kernel instrumentation to optimize real-time and virtualized workloads.

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Circle

San Francisco, CA · $195,000 – $257,500 · Remote

Circle is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the distributed infrastructure powering their blockchain platform at scale. This role suits experienced engineers who excel at managing complex systems, automating operations, and mentoring teams while working across multiple cloud environments and blockchain networks.

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TM Camping

Lotus, CA

This is a cook position at a Christian summer camp responsible for meal preparation, kitchen oversight, and food staff supervision during the camp's summer session. It suits someone who is comfortable in a faith-based environment, can manage kitchen operations under pressure, and enjoys serving others in a team setting.

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Amplitude

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $227,000 – $381,000

Lead Amplitude's Data Infrastructure team within their experimentation platform, connecting statistical innovation with scalable production systems that power large-scale A/B testing. This role combines technical leadership with data science expertise, requiring someone equally fluent in causal inference methods and distributed computing architecture.

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Taskrabbit

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $155,000 – $207,000

Lead a pragmatic security team at a high-growth marketplace platform, balancing innovation with controls by building compliance programs, integrating security tooling, and shepherding engineers through technical trade-offs. This role suits a technically hands-on manager who thrives with incomplete specifications and cross-functional influence in a non-regulated environment.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $315,000 – $375,000

Anyscale seeks an experienced engineering leader to build and manage a customer engineering team supporting production AI workloads. This role combines operational leadership with hands-on technical problem-solving, partnering with product and engineering to translate customer needs into platform improvements.

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Naval Air Systems Command

San Diego, CA · $35 – $40 / hour

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Eight Sleep

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $235,000

Senior iOS engineer role at a sleep technology company building consumer health products with millions of users worldwide. Suits experienced developers who want to work on high-quality native apps in a fast-paced, high-stakes startup environment where technical excellence is non-negotiable.

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Wattpad

Full-time · El Segundo, CA · $60,000 – $73,000

This role manages content delivery, creator communications, and platform features for WEBTOON's CANVAS UGC platform, ensuring smooth operations and compliance across a mobile storytelling platform with millions of users. It suits organized, detail-oriented professionals who thrive coordinating multiple initiatives and supporting creator and reader experiences in a fast-moving entertainment company.

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Pylon

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

Join Pylon's support team to be the first hire in their support function, working directly with the product while providing customer support and shaping how an AI-native support platform handles its own customer interactions. This role combines hands-on support delivery with product feedback and process development, ideal for someone who wants to influence a product roadmap while helping establish best practices for a rapidly growing company.

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XPeng

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $174,720 – $295,680

This role involves building and optimizing large-scale vision-language-action foundation models that form the core of XPENG's autonomous driving systems. You'll design multi-modal architectures, lead pretraining strategies on massive fleet data, and collaborate across research and infrastructure teams to deploy intelligent models for next-generation vehicles.

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Baidu

Sunnyvale, CA

This role involves designing and implementing CPU cores in RISC-V, working from microarchitecture through physical optimization. It suits experienced hardware engineers with a track record shipping processors and expertise in areas like caching, execution units, or memory subsystems.

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JLL

Thousand Oaks, CA

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Juniper Networks

Sunnyvale, CA

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KLA-Tencor

Milpitas, CA

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Veterans Health Administration

San Francisco, CA

A volunteer vascular surgeon position at the San Francisco VA Medical Center providing both interventional endovascular and open surgical care to veterans. This role suits an experienced surgeon interested in serving the veteran population without financial compensation.

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FLIR Systems

Thousand Oaks, CA

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