Top Design Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Design physical ICT and structured cabling infrastructure for data centers and mission-critical facilities. Develop fiber and copper cabling layouts, pathways, telecom room plans, rack elevations, OSP systems, data hall designs, and construction documentation using Revit and AutoCAD. Coordinate BIM models, clash detection, low-voltage systems, contractors, vendors, and other engineering disciplines. Support design reviews, site visits, RFIs, submittals, commissioning, and quality documentation while applying BICSI and TIA/EIA standards.

Leads production test design for NVIDIA networking platforms, including NICs, SmartNICs, DPUs, NVLink systems, and Ethernet switches. Develops test architectures, strategies, coverage, diagnostics, and software solutions while coordinating technical decisions across engineering, operations, security, and manufacturing teams. Partners with contract manufacturers and global teams to deploy test plans, reuse shared capabilities, and align production testing with platform development and manufacturing requirements.

Build and maintain accessible, reusable React Native and web components for Rocket Money’s design system. Collaborate with designers and engineers on UI primitives, tokens, patterns, documentation, tooling, motion, and interaction quality. Improve accessibility, testing, adoption, migration support, and developer experience through reliable shared infrastructure, Storybook examples, technical documentation, and code reviews.

Design, prototype, and build polished web experiences for Stripe’s public websites. Collaborate with designers and engineers, create interactive animations and launch materials, extend design systems, optimize browser performance, and integrate web platforms with authoring and experimentation tools. The role focuses on conversion-oriented user journeys, global audiences, accessibility, and high-quality front-end implementation.

Designs, simulates, lays out, and characterizes high-speed integrated photodetectors, including PIN, APD, and waveguided structures. Responsibilities include optical and RF modeling, custom mask layout, foundry process optimization, and electro-optic testing of devices operating beyond 200 Gbps per lane. The role requires collaboration with process integration, validation, test, customer, and manufacturing teams to transition photonic components from concept through high-volume production.

Design and deliver mechanical and fluid system components from concept through production and flight. Perform trade studies, detailed CAD designs, and structural/thermal/fluid analyses. Collaborate with propulsion, structures, avionics, controls, and manufacturing teams, work with suppliers, develop and run hardware test plans, support prototyping, vehicle builds, ground and flight testing, and participate in technical reviews and safety/hazard analyses.

Lead mechanical design for consumer electromechanical products from concept through production. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, prototyping, testing, thermal/fluid/structural analysis, cross-functional collaboration, DFM/DFA, tolerance analysis, and manufacturing ramp support in Asia. The role requires designing plastic, metal, and soft goods components integrated with sensors and actuators, supporting high-volume manufacturing, and traveling to China as needed.

Principal UI Engineer responsible for architecting real-time collaboration infrastructure, scalable web platforms, and AI-augmented developer tools. The role spans React and TypeScript UI engineering, CRDT-based synchronization, PostgreSQL persistence, performance optimization, CI/CD, observability, security, and platform resilience. The engineer will lead architecture, reliability, incident management, engineering standards, AI-assisted development quality, and mentorship across engineering, design systems, and product teams.

Provides technical leadership for semiconductor customer design enablement from engagement through tape-out readiness. Resolves complex engineering issues, coordinates solutions across PDK, modeling, IP, EDA, reliability, and customer teams, and improves design flows, automation, documentation, and support processes. Manages technical deliverables, risks, milestones, and recovery plans while leading design reviews, customer engagements, training, and knowledge sharing.

Designs and validates stator and rotor mechanical components for advanced robotic motors. Responsibilities include CAD and drawing release, tolerance analysis, lamination and bobbin development, fixture design, prototype fabrication and troubleshooting, metrology, winding interface development, and establishing repeatable low-volume build processes with work instructions and inspection standards. Partners with electromagnetic, electrical, manufacturing, and test engineers to optimize performance, manufacturability, and reliability.

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.

The role involves developing and integrating wireless systems for drones, focusing on RF performance, cellular hardware, and certification processes. Responsibilities include system architecture definition, product validation, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize wireless connectivity and performance.

Design and develop high-performance RF and millimeter-wave MMICs, including power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and RF switches, from architecture through tapeout, characterization, and product integration. Perform circuit and electromagnetic simulations, optimize performance, develop test plans, validate hardware, correlate measurements with simulations, and collaborate with systems, antenna, packaging, and transceiver teams on satellite communication products.

Lead end-to-end ASIC package architecture and execution for high-performance FC-BGA and MCM solutions. Own substrate stackups, ball maps, SI/PI, thermal design, material selection, vendor qualification, packaging standards, and production ramp. Partner with silicon, RF, and systems teams to optimize package interfaces and ensure reliable, first-pass success for high-pin-count, power-dense mixed-signal and digital ASICs.

Designs advanced ASIC packages, including FC-BGA and MCM architectures, from early trade studies through production. Responsibilities include substrate and ball-map definition, SI/PI and thermal design, high-speed signal breakout, material and assembly selection, vendor management, qualification, and collaboration with silicon, RF, and systems teams. The role focuses on high-pin-count, power-dense mixed-signal and digital SoC packages for high-reliability aerospace applications.

Own and evolve LiveKit’s developer-facing website by building high-performance web experiences, reusable brand components, motion systems, and launch pages. Translate brand and design concepts into polished production code, maintain strong performance budgets, and collaborate closely with designers, marketers, and engineers. The role emphasizes front-end engineering, animation, interaction design, speed, and self-directed delivery.

Own the development of LiveKit’s marketing website and brand system. Build high-performance launch and product pages, reusable components, motion patterns, and tooling that translate brand designs into polished web experiences. Collaborate with designers, marketers, and design engineers while maintaining strict performance standards and Core Web Vitals. The role emphasizes front-end engineering, interaction design, animation, fast delivery, and solving complex technical problems.

Leads the architecture, circuit design, integration, verification, tapeout, and silicon validation of high-speed ADCs, DACs, and analog front-ends for advanced mixed-signal SoCs. The role covers converter trade studies, FinFET CMOS circuit implementation, calibration, clocking, references, signal integrity, and DSP collaboration. It also provides technical leadership, establishes design methodologies, and mentors analog and mixed-signal engineers.

Builds production-ready design and interface components in code, bridging design and engineering across React Native, React, and mobile and web platforms. Uses AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and v0 at high production velocity. Defines design-to-code workflows, design tokens, component architecture, and improved handoff practices while collaborating closely with designers and engineers in a fast-moving environment.

Designs and develops pharmaceutical drug-delivery devices and platforms using CAD, prototyping, testing, tolerance analysis, and Design for Manufacturing principles. Collaborates with internal teams, external consultants, CROs, and manufacturing partners to troubleshoot products, support design controls, build intellectual property, and transfer devices into production. Manages project budgets and timelines while serving as a technical resource for cross-functional teams.

Design and build a scalable, responsive UI; lead frontend architecture and optimization; apply UI/UX best practices; integrate with backend APIs; ensure high web performance and deploy user-facing features.

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, 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.