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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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3,181–3,200 of 14,631 jobs
Software Engineer - New Grad
4 weeks agoChalk · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$170K – $180K a yearEngineeringThis position is scheduled to start in Spring 2027.
Chief Engineer
4 weeks agoAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Full-timeExecutive$260K – $345K a yearEngineeringAnduril's Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the…
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, AI Insights
4 weeks agoAxion · San Francisco, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$220K – $290K a yearEngineeringWe’re hiring for a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to help lead our agile, fast-moving backend teams. In this role, you’ll design and build scalable agentic systems, backend services and data-processing workflows that transform complex, unstructured customer data into…
Open Application
4 weeks agohum.ai · San Francisco, California, United States
RemoteFull-timeEngineeringDon’t see a role that matches your skills? We’re always interested in meeting talented people. Send us your resume and a short note about what you’d like to work on, and we’ll reach out if a fitting opportunity opens up.
SpaceX · Hawthorne, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$130K – $175K a yearEngineeringWork closely with other SpaceX IT administrators and engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support enterprise software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX…
Software Engineer, Inference
4 weeks agoLuma · Redwood City, California, United States +3
HybridFull-time$195K – $345K a yearEngineeringYou'll own how Luma's models get served — integrating new architectures into the inference engine, scaling deployments across thousands of machines, and keeping expensive GPU fleets busy while meeting internal SLOs.
Forward Deployed Engineer
4 weeks agoSeekr · Austin, Texas, United States +2
HybridSenior$170K – $225K a yearEngineeringAs an FDE, your work will directly shape our clients’ missions and create real-world impact. Operating in small, dynamic teams, you’ll take full ownership of high-impact projects from start to finish, including:
Sr. Software Test Automation Engineer
4 weeks agoPulse Biosciences · Hayward, California, United States
On-siteSenior$130K – $160K a yearEngineeringThe Sr. Software Test Automation Engineer will be responsible to design, develop, and maintain software test automation frameworks and automated tests for medical device software and system subsystems to improve test coverage, repeatability, efficiency, and reliability,…
Mechanical Engineer
4 weeks agoqueueinc · Newark, California, United States
HybridFull-timeEntry levelEngineeringAs a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll design, build, and test the mechanisms inside our robotic pharmacy. This is a hands-on role. You’ll take parts and subassemblies from a sketch and a hand calculation to hardware running on the bench, then break it, learn from it, and build the…
Manager, Facilities Engineering
4 weeks agoVaxcyte · San Carlos, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeManager$144K – $169K a yearEngineeringVaxcyte is looking for a Manager, Facilities Engineering to be responsible for managing the maintenance and improvement of our office and laboratories. The Manager, Facilities Engineering will be responsible for managing all facility engineers and facility technicians. You will…
California State University · San Diego, California, United States
$108K – $111K a yearEngineeringCover letter, indicating how the applicant meets or will meet required qualifications, preferred qualifications, and “Building on Inclusive Excellence” criteria; Curriculum vita; Research statement; Teaching philosophy statement; Names and contact information for three references
ATE Test Development Engineer
4 weeks agoTenstorrent · Austin, Texas, United States +2
Hybrid$100K – $500K a yearEngineeringTenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms,…
Engineering Manager, Identity Platform
4 weeks agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeManager$293K – $385K a yearEngineeringIdentity is the foundation of trust in an AI-powered world. As people build a rich personal and organizational context in ChatGPT, they need systems that protect it, remember it, and let them share it securely across apps and agents. Without strong identity, context stays…
Staff AI & Agentic Platform Engineer
4 weeks agoAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States +1
Full-timeLead / staff$180K – $245K a yearEngineeringDiscovery is Anduril's team for taking the newest problems across domains- space, missile systems, air, sensor capability, autonomy, and cyber- and proving out what is worth solving. We build the models, run the tests, and carry what works to the point where a program can pick…
Luma · Redwood City, California, United States +5
HybridFull-time$195K – $395K a yearEngineeringYou'll make Luma's multimodal models fast — profiling and optimizing GPU, CPU, and accelerator code so they train efficiently and deploy at scale without sacrificing quality. You'll write the kernels and operations that get the most out of the hardware.
Senior Project Engineer, AD&S
4 weeks agoAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$146K – $194K a yearEngineeringAnduril's Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Manufacturing Engineering team is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to support the execution of Manufacturing Development Plan (MDP) and Product Development Process (PDP) stage gate deliverables across AD&S programs. This role spans both…
Project Engineer, AD&S
4 weeks agoAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Full-timeEntry level$129K – $171K a yearEngineeringAnduril's Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Manufacturing Engineering team is seeking a Project Engineer to support the execution of Manufacturing Development Plan (MDP) and Product Development Process (PDP) stage gate deliverables across AD&S programs. This role spans both Air…
Autonomy Test Engineer
4 weeks agoApplied Intuition · San Diego, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$145K – $190K a yearEngineeringAs an Autonomy Test Engineer, you will own the verification of our autonomy software on real vessels. You’ll design and execute test scenarios that exercise autonomous behaviors (navigation, collision avoidance, mission planning, fault handling), analyze the resulting data to…
Software Engineer, SDK
4 weeks agoBraintrust · San Francisco, California, United States +2
RemoteFull-timeEngineeringBraintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.
Luma · Redwood City, California, United States +7
HybridFull-time$195K – $395K a yearEngineeringYou'll build the distributed systems that train Luma's large-scale multimodal models across thousands of GPUs, so researchers can focus on innovation on top of reliable, efficient, scalable infrastructure.
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.