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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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4,741–4,760 of 14,631 jobs
Senior/Staff Project Engineer
6 weeks agoAntora Energy · San Jose, California, United States
Lead / staff$192K – $230K a yearEngineeringWe are seeking an experienced, self-driven Senior / Staff Project Engineer to lead multidisciplinary engineering execution for our commercial thermal energy storage and power generation projects. This individual will provide technical leadership across internal engineering…
Principal Photonic Device Design Engineer
6 weeks agoIonQ · Santa Barbara, California, United States
Lead / staff$212K – $275K a yearEngineeringWe are seeking a Principal Photonic Device Design Engineer to join our integrated photonics team. In this role, you will serve as a technical leader for the design and development of semiconductor lasers and other active photonic devices for heterogeneous integrated platforms…
Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Ghost
6 weeks agoAnduril Industries · Santa Ana, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$147K – $196K a yearEngineeringAnduril’s Drones team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Manufacturing Engineer to join our rapidly growing team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for bridging the gap between cutting-edge design and efficient, high-volume production for our…
Sr. Camera Engineer
6 weeks agoLucid Motors · Newark, California, United States
Senior$117.1K – $161K a yearEngineeringEvaluate capabilities of state-of-the-art image sensor prototypes.; Lead manufacturing partners on camera hardware design evaluation, prototyping, qualification, and production bring up.; Develop camera requirements and specification for the design, test, and manufacturing of…
Senior Mechanical Engineer - Closures
6 weeks agoZoox · Foster City, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$195K – $256K a yearEngineeringServe as the technical owner and subject matter expert for the complete closures system. Understand how every component interfaces within the system and with the rest of the vehicle, and anticipate interdependencies between closures and adjacent complex systems before they…
Rack-Scale AI Hardware Architect
6 weeks agoMythic · Austin, Texas, United States +1
HybridFull-timeLead / staffEngineeringMythic's advantage is energy per operation at the device. Delivering that advantage at scale depends on the rack around it — how it powers, cools, and moves data between a very large number of devices.; At this density the binding constraints are rack-level: fabric topology,…
Senior/Staff Autonomy Software Generalist
6 weeks agoRelay Robotics · San Jose, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$120K – $200K a yearEngineeringDesign, implement, tune, and improve path and motion planning algorithms for safe, smooth, and continuous robot motion in large-scale, dynamic environments.; Develop perception algorithms using both deep learning and classical geometric computer vision.; Implement, tune, and…
Senior Packaging Integration Lead
6 weeks agoAstera Labs · San Jose, California, United States
Lead / staffEngineeringWe are seeking a Senior Packaging Integration Lead to serve as the single-threaded packaging owner for one or more of Astera Labs’ advanced connectivity products. This role owns the end-to-end packaging solution from customer requirements and package architecture definition…
Infrastructure Engineer, AI Tooling
6 weeks agoMatX · Mountain View, California, United States
HybridFull-time$160K – $275K a yearEngineeringEvery engineering team using coding agents sits somewhere between watching every command and waking up to agent-written PRs waiting for review. What moves teams along this trust curve is how far engineers can trust their agents' judgment. An agent's judgment is only as good as…
Software Engineer, AI Tooling
6 weeks agoMatX · Mountain View, California, United States
HybridFull-time$160K – $275K a yearEngineeringFrontier agents are stronger on our Rust and Python than on our Bluespec and SystemVerilog. What context, tools, and checks make an agent trustworthy on a testbench or a timing report, and how do you know? Very few people anywhere have worked through these questions on a chip…
Lead Software Engineer, Kernels
6 weeks agoMatX · Mountain View, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$160K – $275K a yearEngineeringManage, mentor, and build a team of highly specialized kernel engineers and software developers; Design and optimize kernels that interface directly with our hardware; Work in partnership with our ML Research and Hardware Engineering teams; Provide expertise and guidance on…
Solar Array Test Engineer
6 weeks agoVast · Long Beach, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$112.3K – $230.5K a yearEngineeringOwn the qualification program for non-space-heritage (terrestrial/COTS) photovoltaic cell technologies for space use; Develop, author, and maintain test plans, procedures, and reports for solar array hardware at the coupon, panel, wing, and system levels; Plan and execute test…
Anduril Industries · Irvine, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$182K – $292K a yearEngineeringThe Sentry Tower Software team is responsible for developing robotic systems that provide force protection capabilities, monitoring the perimeter of secure areas, land or sea, for approaching people, vehicles, and vessels. We live in a world where security officers are…
Zoox · Foster City, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$219K – $271K a yearEngineeringOwn CI performance, cost efficiency, and reliability end-to-end, at thousands of builds a day and growing; Rethink CI failure analysis, triage, developer support, and incident response with modern AI tools, shifting first-line work off human on-call; Work cross-functionally to…
Supervising Engineer - Project Manager - CF
6 weeks agoSyska Hennessy Group · Los Angeles, California, United States
$121.9K – $185.8K a yearEngineeringAs the Critical Facilities Supervising Engineer - Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing the function of projects. Must take ownership of the client’s and the firm’s project goals for those projects assigned to him/her in terms of project contract management,…
Sensing & Instrumentation Engineer
6 weeks agoUntil · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$130K – $170K a yearEngineeringUntil is a moonshot company building a “pause button” for biology. Our near-term focus is organ-scale reversible cryopreservation: preserving donated organs at subzero temperatures without ice formation, then rewarming them uniformly for transplant. By solving this grand…
MSAD Systems Engineer V - Team Manager
6 weeks agoVoyager Technologies, Inc. · Folsom, California, United States +4
RemoteManager$153.6K – $199.4K a yearEngineeringDevelop high-fidelity models and control algorithms for propulsion, flight control, and guidance subsystems.; Develop system simulation architectures that support design iteration, verification, and validation.; Perform controllability studies, define control system topologies,…
Embedded Software Engineer
6 weeks agoNuro · Mountain View, California, United States
Full-timeMid level$145.8K – $219K a yearEngineeringNuro operates real self-driving vehicles on public roads today — not a research platform, not ADAS. The Embedded Software Engineering team builds the software for the safety-critical embedded controllers that connect the Nuro Driver™ to the vehicle: the devices that command…
Physical Design Engineer, Timing
6 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,…
Forward Deployed Engineering Team Lead
6 weeks agoAircall.io, Inc. · New York, United States +1
Lead / staff$200K – $256K a yearEngineeringForward Deployed Engineering connects Aircall's AI Voice Agent (AIVA) and AI Messaging Agent (AIMA) to real-world customer workflows, turning possibility into production. The team sits within Customer Solutions & Applied AI and works cross-functionally with Product,…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.