Top Design Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Design and build polished web experiences across PSA products by partnering with design, product, and engineering. Ship production features, build rapid prototypes, maintain design systems, mentor engineers on design best practices, and elevate craft and consistency across the product ecosystem.

Supports structural and protective design engineering projects involving blast analysis, progressive collapse evaluation, anti-ram design, structural hardening, modeling, calculations, and design. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, participates in project coordination, construction administration, and site visits, and receives mentorship in specialized structural engineering for resilient and secure buildings and infrastructure.

Design and develop robotic actuators, including transmissions, motor integration, structural packages, bearings, sealing, and thermal systems. Define and run life testing using fleet-derived load spectra, perform teardown analysis, and establish evidence-based design margins. Collaborate on in-house assembly, calibration, end-of-line testing, and actuator performance roadmaps. The role requires precision mechanical design, geartrain analysis, manufacturing and DFM expertise, CAD, FEA, tolerance analysis, GD&T, fatigue, and thermal design experience.

Design, lay out, prototype, manufacture, bring up, test, and qualify high-density digital, mixed-signal, power, RF, and compute circuit boards for radar satellites. Responsibilities include architecture, requirements, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, system trades, manufacturing management, hardware debugging, and validation through laboratory, environmental, and on-orbit testing. The engineer collaborates with RF, antenna, software, firmware, mechanical, and systems teams to optimize signal integrity, processing performance, thermal behavior, and spacecraft reliability.

Own the system-level design of welded steel drone-delivery towers and subassemblies, including structural components, mechanisms, and electronics integration. Apply mechanical fundamentals, hand calculations, FEA, CAD, prototyping, and testing to develop reliable products. Collaborate with electrical, software, civil, NPI, and supply chain teams to transition designs into production and field deployment. Maintain BOMs, release parts, create build documentation, support contract manufacturers, and periodically visit customers and suppliers.

Collaborate with product designers to implement modular, reusable React components and pixel-perfect UI across desktop and mobile. Build performant CSS-driven interactions, animations, and micro-interactions. Bridge front-end logic with design and maintain high polish across Vetcove's applications.

Build the user interface for an AI-agent infrastructure platform. Responsibilities center on developing high-quality React and TypeScript applications, applying responsive and accessible design, optimizing core web vitals and bundling, and making informed decisions about rendering, streaming, loading states, and modern web technologies. The role values strong product taste, attention to detail, independence, rapid learning, and effective use of AI coding tools.

Design and build end-to-end web and mobile experiences: lead research, concepts, and prototypes; create and maintain design systems; implement responsive, accessible front-end features and back-end APIs; partner with product and data teams to optimize performance, accessibility, and security; shape engineering and design standards.

Design custom industrial machinery, automation equipment, robotic tooling, fixtures, and mechanical systems from concept through commissioning. Create CAD models, manufacturing drawings, bills of materials, and engineering documentation using GD&T and design-for-manufacturing principles. Support fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement while collaborating with manufacturing, controls, suppliers, project management, and technicians.

Design and build production tooling, fixtures, assembly stations, automated test rigs, robotic cells, and packaging systems for autonomous underwater vehicles. Develop mechanical, electrical, and software components that control testing and determine pass or fail. Define PFMEAs, control plans, quality limits, and manufacturing data processes. Improve yield through failure analysis and design-for-manufacture/test feedback. The role is hands-on, on-site, and spans mechanical design, instrumentation, actuation, automation, and machine-shop fabrication.

Design, lay out, validate, manufacture, and test spacecraft printed circuit assemblies for radar payloads and onboard processing systems. Responsibilities include architecture, requirements, component selection, schematic capture, system trades, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, qualification, and manufacturing management. The engineer collaborates with RF, digital, software, firmware, mechanical, antenna, and systems teams while improving designs based on laboratory, environmental, and on-orbit testing.

Leads human factors research and design engineering for robotic surgical systems, instruments, and accessories. Conducts formative research with clinicians, analyzes human performance and usability risks, defines user and interface requirements, develops conceptual prototypes, and influences product strategy. Partners with engineering, clinical, product, quality, and regulatory teams to deliver safe, usable products. Authors regulatory and human factors documentation, supports design controls, performs risk-benefit analyses, and mentors teams in human-centered design and usability methodologies.

Lead system- and board-level design for hyperscaler switches: define specs, create schematics/PCB, FPGA/ASIC design and bring-up, debug high-speed interfaces, coordinate across ASIC, SI, software, diagnostics, manufacturing, and supplier teams to resolve design issues.

Design and build high-quality marketing, activation, checkout, and retention experiences that accelerate growth. Own the marketing design system, increase experiment velocity, partner with marketing, sales, product operations, and customer success, and measure experiment outcomes. The role combines advanced frontend development, visual and interaction design, responsive implementation, animation, customer discovery, data-informed experimentation, code review, and cross-functional project management.

Own the complete tooling lifecycle for aerospace airframe manufacturing, including fixture and jig architecture, CAD design, tolerance analysis, procurement, fabrication, installation, certification, and production support. Lead composite and metallic tooling development, metrology, proof-outs, defect investigations, vendor coordination, and DFM initiatives. Establish tooling standards and processes, mentor engineers and technicians, and transition prototype tooling toward scalable production.

Leads mechanical design and validation of high-temperature insulation systems, structural interfaces, seals, and thermomechanical components operating up to 1500 °C. Performs thermal analysis, FEA, FMEA, testing, and experiments; manages CAD and PLM documentation; develops requirements; supports prototyping, manufacturing, suppliers, and production improvements; and provides technical leadership through design reviews and cross-functional project execution.

Lead end-to-end electrical rack integration for high-performance computing: architecture, power budgeting, vendor management, safety/certification compliance, testing (hi-pot, continuity, load), failure analysis (FMEA), and factory test strategy while mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Own and evolve Buffer's front-end design system and component library for marketing pages. Build performant, accessible, animated React/TypeScript experiences on buffer.com, collaborate with designers and marketers, audit and improve performance and accessibility, and mentor peers on front-end architecture and standards.

Design and optimize complex satellite PCB and PCBA layouts for RF, microwave, power, digital, analog, and mixed-signal systems. Manage Altium libraries, fabrication and assembly documentation, configuration control, material and process selection, and vendor coordination. Ensure high-quality, high-reliability production meeting IPC standards, review subcontractor layouts, and support DFM, DFT, and design rule checks. The role is hybrid in San Francisco and involves export-controlled information.

Own signal and power integrity for RF/mixed-signal and mmWave IC packaging. Perform HFSS and EM simulation for high-speed signals and PDNs, model and characterize RF/mmWave packages, collaborate with RFIC/mmWave/ASIC/SoC and package layout teams, lead SI/PI package delivery, and produce documentation and specifications supporting design reviews.

Design and verify digital integrated circuits, including processor architectures, memory-management units, multicore systems, and cache systems. Responsibilities include defining specifications, analyzing architecture trade-offs, participating in design reviews, supervising IC layouts, developing behavioral models, characterizing prototypes, and coordinating product testing and releases. The program also provides exposure to design verification and analog design through training and on-the-job projects.

The Senior Software Engineer will build user-friendly interfaces for AI-driven healthcare software, focusing on automation, trust, and productivity.

Design and validate isolated and non-isolated high-power converter stages and magnetics for MV/LV Solid State Transformer systems. Perform FEA-driven magnetics design, high-voltage isolation and safety testing, optimize loss/cost/size trade-offs, coordinate with mechanical, manufacturing and test teams, and own magnetics validation to meet performance and safety standards.

You will build core interfaces for Delphi, create a discovery platform, architect scalable front-end systems, and set quality standards while collaborating closely with various teams.

Lead mechanical process design for water and wastewater projects: develop basis of design, equipment sizing/selection, construction documents, specifications, hydraulic analyses, cost estimates, discipline coordination, project management, business development, mentoring, and quality control.