Top Systems Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Own and improve the systems connecting CRM, CPQ, billing, finance, marketing automation, and data warehousing. Build integrations, automation, AI-powered workflows, data models, validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and audit trails supporting quote-to-cash, billing, revenue reporting, and forecasting. Partner with Sales, Deal Desk, Billing Operations, Revenue Accounting, and Data Engineering while maintaining strong release, testing, security, documentation, and change-management practices.

Leads architecture and scaling of Block’s finance technology stack across Oracle Fusion, accounting, tax, treasury, procurement, and FP&A. Designs financial data models, builds SQL/PL/SQL and REST/SOAP integrations, automates workflows, and translates accounting requirements into scalable technical solutions. Partners with finance, product, data engineering, and integration teams while applying AI-assisted development to improve delivery speed and financial operations.

Build and maintain engineering-led business systems supporting CRM, revenue operations, sales, and growth. Develop integrations, internal tooling, automations, and AI-powered production workflows across the modern go-to-market stack. Write and deploy code through Git and CI/CD, collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders, evaluate no-code and low-code solutions, and establish maintainable release practices for a growing Business Systems team.

Own and improve Hex’s corporate IT infrastructure, including identity, endpoints, SaaS applications, employee lifecycle systems, office technology, and asset management. Build automation and AI agents, manage macOS fleets, strengthen monitoring and security practices, resolve complex operational issues, and partner with Security, People, Finance, Engineering, vendors, and consultants. The role is hands-on and expected to progressively assume day-to-day leadership of the IT function.

Build and operate a distributed telemetry data platform for ingest, processing, indexing, compression, storage, and query. Design APIs, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, multi-environment deployments, customer data isolation, and high-performance systems supporting petabytes of data and millions of series. Engineers own projects from design through release and operations while solving complex distributed-systems challenges on a small founding team.

Own the end-to-end speaker system for smart wearable products, including transducer selection, acoustic path and enclosure design, simulation, prototyping, tuning, protection, reliability qualification, factory testing, and production ramp support. Collaborate with audio DSP, electrical, mechanical, firmware, industrial design, suppliers, and contract manufacturers to optimize acoustic performance, size, cost, power, quality, and yield.

Staff Systems Engineer responsible for analyzing driving behavior data, developing system evaluation metrics, defining verification requirements, identifying risks, and architecting high-impact systems engineering projects. The role coordinates cross-functional collaboration, improves system reliability and efficiency, and supports safety-critical autonomous driving systems through statistical analysis, technical documentation, and stakeholder alignment.

Build, integrate, operate, and maintain humanoids, robotic arms, and custom platforms. Debug mechanical, electrical, networking, embedded, and software issues; develop robot drivers, interfaces, diagnostics, and distributed robotics software; perform calibration and testing; maintain data collection and evaluation systems; and deploy learned policies on physical robots. The role requires cross-stack troubleshooting, reliability improvements, and collaboration with machine learning researchers in an on-site startup environment.

Provides application engineering support for utility smart grid and power systems customers. Responsibilities include customer engagement, site visits, installation and commissioning support, troubleshooting, performance analysis, technical reporting, risk identification, and coordination with engineering and product teams. The role requires practical knowledge of electrical distribution and transmission networks and contributes field insights to product development and R&D.

Own system-level architecture, integration, testing, and reliability for robotic platforms spanning mechanical, electrical, embedded, and machine learning systems. Define specifications, interfaces, power budgets, sensor suites, communication architectures, and qualification pipelines. Lead hardware bring-up, functional testing, diagnostics, FMEA, and root-cause investigations. Collaborate with ML, mechanical design, and manufacturing teams to convert software goals into hardware requirements and validate robots for reliable field deployment.

Build and secure employee IT systems, focusing on Okta IAM, MDM, identity lifecycle workflows, access policies, device compliance, automation, and integrations. Develop scripts and APIs across Okta, MDM, Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, and IT service systems. Partner with Security on least privilege and endpoint protection, troubleshoot complex issues, document configurations, reduce technical debt, and expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and AI-assisted workflows.

Develop low-level embedded software, drivers, frameworks, and device infrastructure in C, C++, and Python. Assist with system architecture, debug hardware-software interfaces, optimize performance and power consumption, and collaborate on testing, documentation, and code reviews. The role may involve Android, Linux, Windows, hardware accelerators, microcontrollers, ARM or Qualcomm architectures, and low-level lab debugging.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and sustains WalkMe and other digital adoption solutions. Translates business requirements into in-application guidance, workflow automation, and user-support experiences. Builds Smart Walk-Thrus, Launchers, SmartTips, Surveys, and related content; uses analytics to improve adoption and user experience. Troubleshoots web applications, validates cross-browser functionality, documents designs, manages technical risks, and collaborates with business stakeholders, application owners, and technical teams.

Own corporate IT across identity, access, endpoints, networks, SaaS, lab infrastructure, and robotics support. Manage onboarding, device lifecycle, networking, ticketing, procurement, asset inventory, conference-room technology, and endpoint security. Automate repetitive processes with Bash, Python, Ansible, and APIs while supporting engineering workstations, servers, storage, and vehicle data workflows. The role is primarily onsite in San Francisco, includes occasional after-hours on-call participation as the team grows, and requires working in lab and shop-floor environments.

Leads systems engineering for flight management avionics, including software requirements definition, hardware and software integration, deployment, troubleshooting, laboratory test-bench integration, and verification and validation. Provides technical leadership for complex engineering projects and ensures compliance with aviation certification, security, and systems engineering standards. Requires extensive Flight Management or Flight Guidance experience and collaboration with software and systems engineering teams.

Develops, tests, integrates, and deploys automation for legacy and modernized systems using Ansible and related tools. The role supports automation workflows, CI/CD environments, change management, security configuration, documentation, and production integration. The engineer collaborates with system owners and cross-functional teams, tracks work in IBM Jazz or Jira, participates in scrums, and supports government customer requests. This is a fully remote role with occasional onsite activities in the Washington, DC, area.

Lead integrations and AI automation for Finance systems, designing Workato workflows, AI-powered agents, copilots, and scalable integrations. Partner with Finance, IT, Security, Legal, and Audit teams to modernize accounting, procurement, billing, and revenue workflows. Own architecture, governance, operational reliability, SOX audit support, reusable frameworks, training, and success metrics while ensuring compliant handling of sensitive data.

Administer and provide escalation support for collaboration and endpoint management platforms. Manage Mac and Windows policies, deployments, patching, security compliance, integrations, and lifecycle operations using Jamf and Intune. Develop Python, PowerShell, and Okta Workflows automation, onboard applications for SSO, monitor system health, support investigations, manage vendors, and lead IT engineering projects. Partner with Security and other teams to maintain secure, compliant platforms and provide Tier 3 IT support.

Design, configure, develop, deploy, and support scalable Salesforce CPQ solutions for product configuration, pricing, discounting, approvals, and quoting. Partner with Sales, Revenue Operations, Finance, and technology teams to translate business requirements into solutions. Troubleshoot issues, maintain performance and data integrity, manage releases, document standards, and support complex catalogs, pricing models, and approval processes.

Designs and models satellite communication payloads, leads architectural trade studies and radio technology R&D, establishes system requirements, develops signal-processing algorithms, and tests/debugs radio hardware. Collaborates with RF, antenna, SDR, FPGA, digital hardware, mechanical, and thermal teams. The role also supports radio characterization, recruiting, and development of advanced satellite waveforms and modem technologies.

Lead IT systems engineering as the team’s senior technical escalation point. Design, automate, secure, and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, and scripting. Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, deploy IT platforms, manage endpoint and network environments, lead cross-functional initiatives, and mentor IT staff through reusable templates and best practices. The role also requires expertise in identity and access security, SaaS administration, and emerging AI-native tools.

Leads the design, programming, integration, testing, commissioning, and lifecycle management of motion-control and mechanical-handling systems for an advanced nuclear plant. Develops PLC and industrial control software, electrical designs, requirements, safety functions, interfaces, test procedures, and verification records. Coordinates suppliers and multidisciplinary teams, supports troubleshooting and corrective actions, reviews technical deliverables, and mentors engineers while ensuring rigorous configuration control, traceability, safety, and quality.

Design and operate large-scale infrastructure supporting GPU- and CPU-based EDA workloads. Build automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, lifecycle management, monitoring, health remediation, cluster enrollment, and recovery across Linux compute fleets. Integrate services with schedulers, infrastructure systems, and observability platforms. Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and reliability improvements while collaborating with EDA, networking, storage, and hardware teams.

Design, deploy, maintain, tune, and secure enterprise Linux environments supporting high-performance EDA compute farms. Lead infrastructure-as-code automation, configuration management, continuous deployment, and tooling development using Python, Bash, or Go. Manage LDAP/SSSD naming services, NFS and Autofs storage, virtualization, container infrastructure, registries, networking, and infrastructure telemetry. Support highly available, scalable systems and potentially integrate cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, EDA toolchains, and HPC clusters.

Build and govern cross-functional business automations, integrations, and AI-powered workflows across sales, finance, support, customer success, operations, and people teams. Partner with business leaders to identify high-impact opportunities, connect SaaS systems, establish monitoring and security guardrails, measure impact, and document durable solutions. Lead company-wide AI adoption and deliver automation standards, prioritized backlogs, and several production automations during the first six months.