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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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1,761–1,780 of 14,631 jobs
Thermal Engineer (Starshield)
2 weeks agoSpaceX · Hawthorne, California, United States
Full-timeEntry level$100K – $130K a yearEngineeringThermal design of spacecraft, launch vehicles, and hardware, from initial high-level analysis down to validation of performance with ground tests, flight, and orbital data; Automate workflow to reduce engineering investment in the design cycle; Pursue performance/robustness…
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 weeks agoCerebras Systems · Sunnyvale, California, United States
HybridFull-timeEngineeringWe are seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the AWS infrastructure that powers Cerebras' products and platform. This is a high-ownership, hands-on role at the intersection of infrastructure engineering and reliability — you will architect…
OpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time$380K – $850K a yearEngineeringThe Foundations Research team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the next decade of AI. Our goal is to advance the science and data that enable our training and scaling efforts, with a particular focus on future frontier models. We push the boundaries of…
Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search
2 weeks agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time$380K – $850K a yearEngineeringThe Foundations Research team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the next decade of AI. Our goal is to advance the science and data that enable our training and scaling efforts, with a particular focus on future frontier models. We push the boundaries of…
Skydio · San Mateo, California, United States
RemoteFull-timeSenior$190K – $250K a yearEngineeringWe’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer specializing in WebRTC and cloud live video streaming to own the real-time media and data stack powering Skydio Remote Flight Deck (RFD), ReadyLink, and our Commands. Remote pilots and mission commanders rely on our browser and…
Manufacturing Engineer
2 weeks agoAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Full-timeMid level$132K – $175K a yearEngineeringAnduril’s Manufacturing team is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team. The Manufacturing Team is responsible for rapidly iterating and building cutting-edge defense hardware, including static equipment, moving ground equipment, and flight vehicles. This…
Software Engineer (II-III), Full Stack
2 weeks agoTrue Anomaly · Denver, Colorado, United States +1
On-siteSenior$115K – $165K a yearEngineeringDesign, develop, and sustain satellite command and control, mission planning, mission data processing and data analysis software systems using Elixir; Bring your voice to the table in team collaborations on architecture, design, and code reviews; Interact and collaborate with…
Director of Major Gifts
2 weeks agoRocketship Public Schools · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridDirector$120K – $140K a yearEngineeringAs an organization in our 20th year, Rocketship Public Schools has a proven educational model, a compelling case for support, and a highly successful fundraising engine. Thanks to strong, established relationships with foundations and institutional partners, we currently raise…
CHAOS Industries · El Segundo, California, United States
Senior$110K – $160K a yearEngineeringWe are seeking a Special Test Equipment (STE) Designer responsible for the full lifecycle of interceptor test systems — from requirements analysis and qualification strategy through physical design, hardware build, and Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) deployment.
Integration Engineer - Hands
2 weeks ago1X · San Carlos, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$125.1K – $220.8K a yearEngineeringThe Hands team builds the hands that let NEO grasp, manipulate, and help around the home. Packed with motors, encoders, gearing, and sensors, NEO’s hands are among the most dexterous and highest-cycle subsystems on the robot, and every one of them has to be proven before it…
Flight Software Verification Manager
2 weeks agoReliable Robotics Corporation · Mountain View, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeSenior$190K – $270K a yearEngineeringWe're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods — and eventually people — move around the planet.…
Simulation and Test Systems Manager
2 weeks agoReliable Robotics Corporation · Mountain View, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$210K – $270K a yearEngineeringAs the Simulation and Test Systems Manager at Reliable Robotics, you’ll lead and grow the team of engineers responsible for Reliable’s end-to-end simulation framework and test automation infrastructure. You’ll own the maturation of engineering processes to balance rapid…
Flight Software Manager
2 weeks agoReliable Robotics Corporation · Mountain View, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$210K – $270K a yearEngineeringAs a Flight Software Manager at Reliable Robotics, you’ll lead and grow the team responsible for the safety critical flight software that makes the aircraft fly. You’ll own the maturation of engineering processes to balance immediate engineering execution with formal DO-178C…
Celero Communications, Inc. · San Jose, California, United States
Senior$150K – $250K a yearEngineeringDesign and implement high-performance digital circuits and ASIC blocks using Verilog and SystemVerilog.; Develop and integrate DSP, digital communication, and high-speed SerDes functionality into complex ASIC designs.; Work closely with Analog, SerDes, DSP, Architecture,…
Engineering Manager, Lyft Business
2 weeks agoLyft · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridManager$176K – $220K a yearEngineeringDrive team execution by resolving blockers, mediating decision-making, and navigating ambiguity to keep the team moving with clarity and momentum; Maintain operational excellence by implementing and upholding best practices for observability, reliability, and on-call processes;…
Forward Deployed Engineer
2 weeks agoPVM, Inc. · Rosemead, California, United States
On-siteSeniorEngineeringPVM is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to support Southern California Edison's environments in Palantir Foundry. These systems support wildfire mitigation, Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) operations, and regulatory reporting.
Senior Software Engineer, R&D
2 weeks agoCommure · Mountain View, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeSenior$170K – $220K a yearEngineeringWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our R&D team at Commure, the team taking emerging technology from inception to impact. We scout new capabilities — a frontier LLM that can chain tool calls, browser agents that can navigate the web, new agent harnesses that can self…
Compute Electrical Engineer, Robotics
2 weeks agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$318K – $485K a yearEngineeringOur Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of…
Junior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
2 weeks agoPVM, Inc. · Rosemead, California, United States
On-siteEntry levelEngineeringPVM is hiring a Junior Forward Deployed Engineer to support Southern California Edison's environments in Palantir Foundry. These systems support wildfire mitigation, Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) operations, and regulatory reporting.
GPU Kernel Engineer
2 weeks agoRelace · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEngineeringYou’d work at the bottom of the stack, writing and tuning the code that runs directly on the GPU: getting more work per second and per dollar out of the hardware, shrinking models so they’re cheaper to run without making them worse, and hunting down the many boring reasons a…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.