Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Develop, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for unmanned air, maritime, space, and expendable platforms. Lead feature crews or sub-programs, author interface contracts, coordinate with autonomy, perception, C2, and platform partners, and mentor engineers. Own mission-ready builds, hardware/software integration, live testing, debugging, performance optimization, simulation-based issue reproduction, and continuous process improvement. Travel 10–20% for customer sites, integration events, and mission tests.

Design and develop tactical autonomy algorithms and high-performance software for unmanned systems. Implement behavior architectures, planning, decision-making, multi-agent coordination, and hybrid rule-based/machine-learning autonomy. Integrate capabilities with perception, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams; deploy to real platforms; support field testing and flight demonstrations. Analyze mission data, troubleshoot performance, research new algorithms, and adapt solutions for defense programs. Travel is typically 10–15% annually.

Integrate autonomy software onto unmanned aircraft, prepare and validate flight-ready systems, support live flight tests, and troubleshoot hardware, software, and embedded-system issues. Capture and analyze flight data, collaborate with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test teams, improve integration processes, and support certification and airworthiness compliance. The role requires 30–40% travel to test sites, customer locations, and flight integration events.

Design and develop tactical autonomy algorithms and high-performance software for unmanned systems across air, land, sea, and space domains. Implement behavior architectures, multi-agent coordination, planning, decision-making, and hybrid rule-based and machine-learning solutions. Integrate and test autonomy capabilities on real platforms, analyze mission data, support flight demonstrations, and contribute to research and roadmap development for defense programs.

Leads technical direction for autonomous pilot integration across multiple unmanned-platform programs. Develops and deploys C++ autonomy software, integrates onboard systems, validates through simulation and hardware testing, troubleshoots embedded systems, and supports live field missions. Drives architecture, interoperability standards, documentation, process improvements, and cross-team collaboration. Mentors senior engineers and team leads, represents engineering to customers and partners, supports hiring, and travels approximately 10–20% for integration and test events.

Design and develop high-performance autonomy software for unmanned aircraft and multi-agent systems. Implement tactical behaviors, planning, decision-making, coordination, and hybrid rule-based and learning-based autonomy. Integrate capabilities across perception, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams; deploy and validate software on real platforms; analyze mission data; and contribute to technical roadmaps. Lead technical direction, mentor engineers, manage full software lifecycles, and support defense programs, integration events, and field testing.

Build responsive Web3 applications, web SDKs, developer tools, reusable frontend components, and internal Customer Success tools. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to create scalable, accessible user experiences. Contribute to code and design reviews, automated testing, continuous delivery, coding standards, and AI-assisted development practices.

Own the architecture and technical strategy for Square’s go-to-market technology stack. Build and operate production AI agents, automated workflows, and integrations that improve sales productivity. Lead complex technical initiatives, establish AI reliability and security guardrails, define evaluation metrics, and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Partner with Sales, Product, Data, and Engineering leaders while mentoring engineers and remaining hands-on across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.

Build and operate production software for active clinical trials, including clinical-system integrations, trial data flows, site activation, monitoring, and signal detection. Design AI-native agents and pipelines with auditability, provenance tracking, and human review in regulated GxP environments. Own multi-quarter technical initiatives, collaborate with clinical, regulatory, QA, data, and infrastructure teams, mentor engineers, and improve validated software delivery workflows.

Leads software engineering efforts for JPMorgan Chase’s Consumer & Community Banking organization. Provides technical direction, develops and reviews secure production code, influences application design and technical operations, and serves as a subject matter expert. Drives adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices, automation, testing, code review, troubleshooting, and responsible AI controls across teams. Requires strong software development, system design, cloud-native, operational stability, and technical leadership experience.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s payments infrastructure and platform. Make architectural decisions focused on fault tolerance, scalability, and modularity; modernize Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React systems; collaborate across engineering, product, design, data science, and operations; deliver software supporting millions of businesses; and mentor fellow engineers.

Own enterprise voice AI deployments for strategic restaurant customers, from technical discovery and architecture through integration, go-live, optimization, and production support. Write code, configure APIs and workflows, troubleshoot live issues, and collaborate with customer engineering teams and business leaders. Develop reusable deployment tools, reference architectures, and playbooks while translating field challenges into product improvements. Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering and serve as a trusted technical escalation point.

Develop and deploy slot-game features in Unity and C#, including gameplay, UI/UX, engine systems, and creator tools. Build server-backend functionality, investigate and extend slot-engine systems, define technical tasks, and quickly resolve bugs. The role requires collaboration, strong communication, and delivery under deadlines, with opportunities to work on live mobile games and performance optimization.

Leads software engineering projects and developer teams building distributed microservices and cloud-based backend solutions. Collaborates with product managers, mentors engineers, evaluates code, and addresses regulatory and customer needs. Uses technologies including Java, Python, Go, Node.js, SQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, relational databases, and NoSQL databases while staying current with emerging technologies and AI tooling.

Configure and support Workday across HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Payroll, and Benefits. Partner with product owners and HR stakeholders to translate business needs into solutions, improve processes, test new capabilities, troubleshoot production issues, document implementations, and maintain calculated fields, custom reports, security, and integrations. Research Workday updates and promote automation, technical excellence, and operational efficiency.

Build and operate Block’s data platform, including warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable Python services, developer tools, and Terraform infrastructure for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish engineering standards, provide technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, reliability, observability, usability, and data governance.

Build, enhance, and support microservices powering financial portfolio construction, data integrations, and real-time operational workflows. Develop platform capabilities, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure while collaborating with stakeholders to address business needs. Troubleshoot live production issues, provide critical real-time support, write maintainable code, validate quality, and contribute to a fast-paced interdisciplinary engineering environment.

Build and operate a scalable data platform supporting warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop Python services, Terraform infrastructure, and developer tools for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish security and reliability patterns, set technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

Leads Forge’s Site Reliability Engineering team, improving system availability, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, automation, and production operations. Partners with Platform, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Risk, and Product teams to strengthen reliability and operational maturity in a regulated environment. Responsibilities include technical design, troubleshooting, team hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development while helping deliver secure, scalable, highly reliable products.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance C/C++ graphics code and HLSL shaders for NBA 2K. Implement rendering technologies, optimize GPU performance, improve VFX, lighting, and post-processing, collaborate with art and design teams, and support system-wide rendering technology upgrades.

Leads infrastructure engineering initiatives for business applications, including architecture, design, deployment, maintenance, production support, outage analysis, and infrastructure upgrades. Builds and automates solutions using cloud platforms, CI/CD, scripting, monitoring, and configuration-management tools. Evaluates software solutions, leads implementations, manages risks and controls, documents technical processes, and collaborates with internal teams, customers, and vendors.

Build backend-heavy fullstack features for DX Fabric, including scalable REST APIs, React components, software catalogs, scorecards, automated workflows, and agentic capabilities. Optimize PostgreSQL and SQL performance at enterprise scale, implement monitoring and error reporting, review code, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams in an Agile environment.

Design, build, and operate Zeta’s high-volume real-time events pipeline. Lead event-streaming architecture and production launches, evaluate technologies, define downstream contracts, mentor engineers, translate SLAs into reliable systems, and improve observability, alerting, on-call processes, performance, cost, data quality, and incident response.

Own the specification, design, and implementation of features for FareHarbor’s large-scale web application. Collaborate with product teammates, develop scalable and performant full-stack solutions, improve automated testing, resolve technical issues, and participate in code reviews. The role requires strong Python and JavaScript skills, experience with front-end and back-end frameworks, relational databases, and production scalability challenges.

Build and lead scalable data governance systems across the data platform, including privacy policy enforcement, metadata and lineage management, data security, regulatory compliance, and purpose-driven access. Architect reliable systems for high-volume data environments, shape technical strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with Privacy, Legal, Security, and Trust teams, and mentor engineers across backend infrastructure and data engineering.