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Engineering jobs in California, United States
14,631 open roles read nightly from companies’ own hiring pages. Each one links to the original ad.
Engineering jobs in California at a glance
- Open roles
- 14,631
- Remote
- 6%
- Posted in the last 30 days
- 3,203
- Advertised pay, middle half
- $180K – $275Kmedian $222K
From the 12,672 engineering jobs here that state yearly pay in USD: the top of each advertised range. Updated nightly.
Hiring most here
- Anduril Industries 1,020
- SpaceX 459
- OpenAI 235
- Relativity Space 211
- Anthropic 146
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261–280 of 14,631 jobs
Nscale · Houston, Texas, United States +3
$100K – $170K a yearEngineeringThis is a career-level engineering role for someone who wants to own the path from commit to production. You'll take real surface area: the CI/CD, GitOps, and change automation that Nscale's engineers use every day to ship. Internal developers are your customers, and you'll be…
AI Integration Engineer
3 days agoPlaud · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$140K – $276K a yearEngineeringPick the platform, set the architecture — choose the orchestration / iPaaS (Tray, Workato, n8n…) and define the integration patterns, data contracts and auth model others build to.; Build the integration + auth layer — connect the core stack (Okta/Entra, Rippling, NetSuite,…
Lavendo · San Francisco, California, United States
RemoteFull-timeMid level$220K – $320K a yearEngineeringOur client is a Series B enterprise AI startup that raised $108M from a16z, Benchmark, First Round, BoxGroup, and YC, building infrastructure that turns complex documents into structured, AI-ready data. Its API-based platform processes PDFs, images, spreadsheets, and other…
Staff Cloud Hypervisor Engineer, Compute
3 days agoCrusoe · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$215K – $260K a yearEngineeringAt Crusoe, we are building the "engine room" of the AI revolution. We are seeking a Staff Cloud Hypervisor R&D Engineer to serve as the lead architect for our next-generation virtualization stack. In this role, you will move beyond standard virtualization to design a…
Woven by Toyota · Palo Alto, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$140K – $230K a yearEngineeringWork with the extended team to architect, design, implement, test, and integrate features into the AD/ADAS vehicle platform.; Set up or adapt build flows, and other relevant tooling.; Be excited about working hands-on in a fast-paced environment on software closely connected to…
Zip · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$200K – $280K a yearEngineeringAs a Principal Product Manager on the Payments team, you will own the systems and strategy that power Zip's global payments infrastructure and make Zip the safest and most seamless way to pay vendors across tens of billions in annual spend. You will drive product development…
Vailexa · Santa Clara, California, United States
RemoteMid levelEngineeringInterested in finding system issues before they slow validation? Excited by the challenge of keeping large-scale Linux, SLURM, and GPU systems operating smoothly? This role works across Linux clusters, SLURM services, GPU infrastructure, and operational tooling that support…
PsiQuantum · Milpitas, California, United States
$126.6K – $148.7K a yearEngineeringPsiQuantum is seeking a researcher to develop methods for quantum characterization, verification, and validation (QCVV) of large-scale quantum systems. The successful candidate will work on methods for reliably characterizing quantum channels and system-level behavior in…
Thermal Engineer (Senior)
3 days agoApex Technology, Inc. · Los Angeles, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$150K – $190K a yearEngineeringApex is seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer to own the thermal design and performance of our spacecraft from concept through flight. In this role, you’ll solve complex thermal challenges across the vehicle, develop and validate spacecraft level thermal models, and directly…
Anduril Industries · Santa Ana, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$191K – $254K a yearEngineeringMaritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. We build and deploy the full technology stack that powers Anduril's shipbuilding factories: the data infrastructure that makes every machine and sensor visible…
Principal Endpoint Platform Engineer
3 days agoRoblox · San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$231K – $267.4K a yearEngineeringEvery day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
Regulatory Engineer
3 days agoNorthwood Space · Torrance, California, United States +1
Full-timeMid levelEngineeringNorthwood is hiring a Regulatory Engineer to help license our global ground station network. Working directly with our RF Regulatory Licensing Manager, you will prepare and file earth station applications in the U.S. and internationally, support ITU filings, and keep a…
Staff Software Development Engineer
3 days agoZscaler · Santa Clara, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$152K – $190K a yearEngineeringWe are looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid (Santa Clara, CA) role, reporting to the Sr. Director, Software Development Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange (ZPA Logging Analytics AI-ML) department. Zscaler is seeking a Staff…
Braze · San Francisco, California, United States
Lead / staff$184K – $299.8K a yearEngineeringWe're looking for a Staff Engineer for our Messaging Experience team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Canvas, our flagship product. That means supporting the orchestration and sending of messages for clients worldwide. Our products rely on sophisticated…
Nscale · Houston, Texas, United States +3
Senior$170K – $265K a yearEngineeringThis is a senior engineering role for someone who sets the bar for how Nscale ships software and then pulls the rest of the team up to it. You'll own the hardest problems on the delivery platform: the GitHub, GitOps, and change automation every engineer depends on, and the…
Vailexa · Santa Clara, California, United States
RemoteSeniorEngineeringExecute and coordinate rack-level deployment of compute, network, and storage infrastructure for AI and HPC environments.; Validate rack elevations, port maps, cable maps, power distribution, labeling, and physical connectivity before cluster handoff.; Perform detailed cable…
AXS · Los Angeles, California, United States
Senior$130K – $150K a yearEngineeringAXS is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the end-to-end strategy and execution of our Resale platform. This role is responsible for the core marketplace engine that powers secondary ticketing across the AXS ecosystem, including resale listings ingestion and distribution,…
Principal PCS/PMA RTL Design Engineer
3 days agoAstera Labs · San Jose, California, United States
Lead / staff$185K – $240K a yearEngineeringDevelop synthesizable Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL for PCS and PMA digital blocks supporting Ethernet, PCIe, UCIe, UALink, and related protocols.; Implement PCS functions such as line encoding/decoding (64b/66b, 128b/130b, 8b/10b), scrambling/descrambling, block and word…
Project Engineer
3 days agoJ&J Snack Foods · Vernon, California, United States
Mid level$80K – $110K a yearEngineeringThe Project Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects within a large-scale food manufacturing facility. This role works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Food Safety, EHS, Supply Chain, and external contractors to…
Senior Thermal Engineer, Lunar
3 days agoVast · Long Beach, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$147K – $249K a yearEngineeringDefine the thermal control architecture for Vast's lunar surface elements - trading passive, heat pipe, pumped fluid loop, and thermal storage approaches against mass, power, complexity, and dust exposure; Size and place radiators for the lunar surface environment, accounting…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.