Top Design Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

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.

Designs, fabricates, operates, and improves test infrastructure for jet engines and subsystems. Responsibilities include designing test stands and fixtures, analyzing fluid systems, developing test plans and instrumentation, documenting schematics and procedures, conducting hardware testing, analyzing test data, validating models, implementing test strategies, and applying safety controls in hazardous environments.

Supports new product introduction from design release through production, including prototype builds, qualification, manufacturing readiness, engineering changes, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions. Serves as a technical customer contact for early-life production issues, field troubleshooting, and product escalations. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, quality, operations, supply chain, and customers to improve product quality, reliability, manufacturability, and successful product launches.

Design and own mechanical subsystems for autonomous machines from concept through prototype and testing. Create CAD models, perform calculations and FEA, select materials and manufacturing methods, fabricate hardware using workshop tools, and integrate mechanisms with drive, sensing, and controls components. Collaborate with electrical, software, and robotics engineers to deliver complete field-ready systems.

Designs and drafts control systems for medium-voltage mobile power transformers and substations. Responsibilities include interpreting customer specifications, preparing schematics and cabinet layouts, selecting instruments and gauges, creating BOMs, reviewing vendor quotes, updating ERP records, troubleshooting technical issues, inspecting cabinets, supporting production and field service, and researching new control technologies. Requires extensive transformer control design experience, electrical engineering expertise, AutoCAD proficiency, and knowledge of industry standards.

Design and verify mechanical components for medium-voltage mobile power transformers and substations. Create 3D core and coil designs, shop drawings, connection diagrams, woodwork structures, and lead routing using EAP and Autodesk Inventor. Generate ERP material usage files, support production by resolving design issues, and provide technical guidance. Future responsibilities include external transformer and tank designs, plus programming plasma and wood routing machines.

Design, integrate, and sign off synthesizable RTL for ultra-low-power SoC blocks, including compute fabric interconnects, memory interfaces, peripherals, low-power logic, and power-management systems. Own front-end quality through lint, CDC/RDC, LEC, synthesis, timing, and power analysis. Support verification, gate-level debugging, physical-design closure, tapeout, and silicon bring-up while collaborating with architecture, DV, physical design, and firmware teams.

Own high-fidelity CFD and transient thermal modeling for iron-air energy storage systems, spanning electrochemical cells to containerized systems. Validate simulations against test data, automate optimization workflows, analyze fluid routing and cooling efficiency, resolve thermal-fluid integration issues, select modeling methods, standardize workflows, and develop custom tools to address simulation limitations. Translate complex modeling results into system-level design requirements and guide multidisciplinary engineering decisions.

Leads technical due diligence for prospective data center sites, evaluating electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, utility, zoning, and infrastructure feasibility. Reviews provider proposals, capacity data, conceptual layouts, and building documentation; identifies risks, upgrades, cost and schedule impacts; prepares go/no-go recommendations and technical assessments. Coordinates with utilities, landlords, developers, internal subject matter experts, and design teams, then hands secured sites to Design Managers. Frequent travel is required.

Design and review data center white space infrastructure for high-density computing environments. Coordinate electrical, mechanical, cooling, low-voltage, cabling, and network pathway systems; review drawings, submittals, RFIs, and field conditions; oversee consultants; resolve design and constructability issues; and support construction, commissioning, and deployment. Contribute to design standards, scalability, technical documentation, and mentorship across CoreWeave’s data center portfolio.

Designs and delivers EPMS, electrical telemetry, and industrial controls solutions for Microsoft AI datacenters. Responsibilities include defining instrumentation and communications requirements, configuring EPMS hardware and networks, developing system integrations, testing and commissioning technologies, troubleshooting complex electrical and controls issues, producing technical documentation, and coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering, vendor, commissioning, and deployment teams.

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.

Designs, fabricates, commissions, validates, and improves mechanical crash-safety test equipment for batteries and aircraft hardware. Responsibilities include structural fixtures, containment systems, high-force actuation, engineering analysis, CAD documentation, operator safety systems, instrumentation integration, troubleshooting, validation testing, and supplier coordination.

Design and architect electrical systems for autonomous drones, including embedded computing, power, RF, sensing, interconnect, cameras, and imaging electronics. Lead detailed design, validation, manufacturing integration, and troubleshooting of reliability, yield, EMI, and performance issues from development through high-volume production.

Design and implement FPGA code for satellite digital payloads, including DSP algorithms, software-defined radio modulation and demodulation, and embedded processor interfaces. Develop custom IP, improve DSP and interface reliability, integrate vendor IP, and support communications architecture and spacecraft design studies. Participate across simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and hardware testing using Xilinx FPGAs and industry-standard HDL and simulation tools.

Designs and develops hardware test boards and platforms for high-speed electro-optical device characterization in R&D and manufacturing environments. Performs laboratory testing, analog design and debugging, test-system development, hardware bring-up, and firmware development for microcontrollers. Supports System-on-Chip optical engine development and interfaces with vendors. Preferred experience includes power supply design, advanced PCB stack-ups, optical instrumentation, automated measurements, and coherent optical communications.

Leads DFM and DFA analysis for complex PCB assemblies, develops manufacturing rule sets, reviews fabrication and assembly data, and collaborates with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and customers. Designs high-density multilayer PCB layouts from schematics using industry-standard CAD tools, creates manufacturing deliverables, maintains libraries and design standards, and supports continuous improvement across a global electronics manufacturing organization.

Develops detailed audiovisual system designs, including signal flows, schematics, rack layouts, networked AV solutions, technical drawings, and bills of materials. Collaborates with sales, project managers, architects, clients, and engineering teams to refine requirements and support implementation. Conducts design reviews, quality checks, troubleshooting, system validation, and value engineering while ensuring designs meet project scope, budget, standards, and client expectations.

Designs and validates electrical and electronic components, subsystems, integrated circuitry, and hardware solutions. Develops test plans covering tolerances, form, fit, function, shock, vibration, EMI, safety, reliability, thermal performance, and power. Performs feasibility, margin, validation, modeling, and empirical analyses; collaborates with internal and outsourced engineering partners; evaluates production reliability and supports prototype fabrication for reliable, cost-effective products.

Build and ship interactive creative and engineering tools using React and TypeScript. Design core interactions, visual systems, motion behavior, accessibility, and performance-focused UI. Partner with internal users to iterate on features, contribute to design systems, review code and designs, and bridge design and engineering. The role requires strong visual craft, interaction design expertise, production engineering skills, and experience delivering complex editors or interactive platforms.

Develop and lead RF, SerDes, and mm-wave integrated circuits from architecture and simulation through silicon validation. Responsibilities include RF and analog IP design, layout guidance, characterization strategy, PCB development, RF and system-level measurements, competitive benchmarking, technology collaboration, productization, and university research liaison activities.

Lead the design and engineering of an AI-powered product that converts Figma design systems into structured context and generates faithful designs back into Figma. Own the encoding pipeline, prompt systems, onboarding and self-serve experience, product surface, and production-quality frontend. Collaborate with product engineers to improve output reliability, reduce nondeterminism, establish evaluation methods, and scale the product across brands and AI models.

Build interactive experiences across the company website, product, and special projects. Prototype ideas, refine interactions and motion, create visual essays and data visualizations, and develop responsive, accessible, performant websites. Collaborate with designers, marketers, and engineers from concept through production while creating reusable components and patterns. The role requires strong design instincts, frontend development ability, attention to typography and interaction details, and comfort with modern frontend and animation libraries.

Design and develop physical layouts for silicon interposers used in NVIDIA products. Collaborate with package technical leads, signal integrity and technology engineers, and design teams to deliver package solutions. Conduct feasibility studies, floorplanning, custom layout, design-rule and netlist verification, and layout trade-off analysis. Resolve manufacturing, electrical, cost, and scheduling issues while using Cadence tools and verification flows such as DRC and LVS.

Leads manufacturing process development, validation, new product introduction, production scaling, and continuous improvement for advanced unmanned aircraft systems. Develops tooling, work instructions, control plans, capacity models, and production-readiness criteria. Partners with design, quality, supply chain, test, suppliers, and production teams to transition electromechanical products into high-volume manufacturing. Investigates defects, improves yield and throughput, supports automation, and provides hands-on assistance during pilot builds and production ramps.