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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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401–420 of 14,631 jobs
Founding Software Engineer - Backend
4 days agoHypercubic · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$125K – $300K a yearEngineeringWe’re looking for a backend engineer with unusually strong engineering and design taste. You will work directly with the CTO to design, prototype, and productionize AI-powered systems from first principles. This is a founding role with meaningful ownership over architecture,…
Site Reliability Engineer
4 days agoPlanet · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeMid level$144.5K – $180.6K a yearEngineeringPlanet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and…
Director of Corporate Development
4 days agoRobinhood · Menlo Park, California, United States +1
Director$242K – $285K a yearEngineeringWe are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the…
Senior Controls Engineer
4 days agoParallel Systems · Los Angeles, California, United States
Senior$175K – $215K a yearEngineeringDevelop and maintain plant models of vehicle dynamics, powertrain, and braking systems, and use them to analyze, simulate, and tune controllers in tools such as MATLAB/Simulink or Python; Design and implement control algorithms for vehicle systems, validating them in simulation…
Ramp · New York, United States +1
HybridFull-time$204.4K – $352K a yearEngineeringEvery model decision at Ramp Labs runs through a benchmark. Which model to route to. Whether a post-training run worked. Whether an agent is ready to post a corrective journal entry to a customer's ledger without a human in the loop.
DiDi Labs · San Jose, California, United States
Lead / staff$169.8K – $338.7K a yearEngineeringDiDi's autonomous driving unit was established in 2016 with the mission of developing Level 4 autonomous driving (AD) technology to make transportation safer and more efficient. In August 2019, the unit became an independent company, DiDi Autonomous Driving, dedicated to…
Founding Engineer
4 days agoValius Sciences · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$200K – $300K a yearEngineeringAt Valius, we believe that the future of cancer care will be defined by “maximalist” diagnostics: deep, comprehensive assessments of DNA, RNA, and protein designed to give patients and their care teams the best possible understanding of how their tumor works and what its…
ALTEN Technology USA · Newark, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$110K – $115K a yearEngineeringExecute verification, validation, characterization, and reliability testing of traction inverter systems and related components.; Configure and operate laboratory test equipment and inverter test benches.; Perform functional, performance, thermal, environmental, efficiency, and…
Vehicle Safety Test Engineer
4 days agoALTEN Technology USA · Newark, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$100K – $105K a yearEngineeringDevelop and execute vehicle safety test plans, including full vehicle crash tests, subsystem testing, and component-level evaluations.; Prepare vehicles, components, and instrumentation for safety testing and validation activities.; Operate and maintain test equipment,…
Staff SDET, Embedded Platform Software
4 days agoALTEN Technology USA · Newark, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$170K – $180K a yearEngineeringLead verification efforts for embedded software on target hardware.; Bring up, configure, and troubleshoot new hardware on test benches.; Maintain and debug existing test benches and validation environments.; Develop and enhance test software, tools, and automation scripts.;…
Senior Quality Engineer (Electronics)
4 days agoNeros Technologies · Torrance, California, United States
Senior$161.5K – $226K a yearEngineeringOwn electronics quality across the factory as the technical authority on workmanship and acceptance, from PCBA and soldering to harnesses, cables, and battery packs; Act as first responder for quality issues on the line: disposition defects, contain suspect product, and drive…
Neros Technologies · Torrance, California, United States
Senior$161.5K – $226K a yearEngineeringOwn electro-mechanical quality across the factory as the technical authority on workmanship and acceptance, from components and sub-assemblies such as motors, harnesses, and mechanisms through final vehicle assembly; Act as first responder for quality issues on the line:…
DiDi Labs · San Jose, California, United States
Lead / staff$255K – $351K a yearEngineeringDiDi's autonomous driving unit was established in 2016 with the mission of developing Level 4 autonomous driving (AD) technology to make transportation safer and more efficient. In August 2019, the unit became an independent company, DiDi Autonomous Driving, dedicated to…
Design Engineer
4 days agoStuut · San Francisco, California, United States +1
HybridFull-time$190K – $240K a yearEngineeringWe're hiring a Design Engineer to own how Stuut looks, feels, and works — from first sketch to production code. Reporting to the Head of Product & Design, you'll work alongside our engineers and Product Manager across every surface finance teams touch.
Stuut · San Francisco, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$185K – $250K a yearEngineeringAt Stuut, you'll build AI agents that do real order-to-cash work: collecting overdue invoices, responding to customer emails about invoices and payments, applying cash, and resolving disputes and deductions. You'll build the agents, their harnesses, and the product that makes…
Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$187.1K – $253K a yearEngineeringIntegrate vendor components across multiple controllers and subsystems within a safety-critical software architecture, ensuring reliable communication over hardware interfaces.; Implement real-time operating system (RTOS) applications as required for vehicle platforms.; Design…
Senior Software Engineer
4 days agoOrion Sleep · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSeniorEngineeringWe don't spend time writing a bulleted list of expectations we are looking for in a candidate.
Airbnb · San Francisco, California, United States
RemoteSenior$196K – $227K a yearEngineeringAirbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
Fortera Corporation · San Jose, California, United States
SeniorEngineeringDetailed Design/Project Execution:
Senior IT Systems Engineer I
4 days agoRocket Lab Corporation · Long Beach, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$108K – $140K a yearEngineeringRocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.