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Mountain View, CA2 days ago

Full-time
Employee

The Manufacturing engineer partners with Synopsys supplier/Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) (Contract Manufacturer’s) to define, qualify and document as appropriate: Assembly processes, assembly tools and aids, while driving cost and quality improvements. Lead manufacturing process development for high-complexity PCBA, including high-layer-count boards, fine-pitch BGAs, high-speed signal designs, and power electronics.

New!

Mountain View, CA3 days ago

Full-time
Employee

This role requires deep technical knowledge in PCBA assembly processes, FATP (Final Assembly, Test & Packout), manufacturing automation, and cross-functional collaboration with R&D, Quality, Test Engineering, and global EMS partners. We are seeking an experienced Manufacturing Engineer with strong expertise in PCBA manufacturing, electromechanical assembly, and New Product Introduction (NPI) to support advanced hardware manufacturing initiatives at Synopsys.

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Palo Alto, CA3 days ago

$180,000–$200,000

This role is focused on advanced power electronics, power conversion, AC/DC, DC/DC, HVDC/DC, inverter-based systems, and next-generation high-power conversion platforms for advanced infrastructure, data center power, EV charging, charging systems, and energy storage applications. This is an opportunity to join a newly forming R&D team working on real-world, high-power engineering challenges with strong visibility, global collaboration, and meaningful influence over future power conversion platforms.

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Santa Clara, CA1 day ago

$175,000–$260,000 Per Year

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San Francisco, CA1 day ago

$185,000–$250,000 Per Year

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Mountain View, CA1 day ago

$160,000–$200,000 Per Year

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Santa Clara,, California16 days ago

$50–$52 Per Hour
Contractor

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. This role involves working on cutting-edge technologies to design and develop advanced silicon anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the scaling up of innovative materials and processes.

Cupertino,, California16 days ago

$120–$130 Per Hour
Contractor

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Client is seeking an enthusiastic software engineer to help design, implement, and optimize new animations for our custom animation rendering engine.

Los Altos, CA7 days ago

$70–$77 Per Hour

AWS security experience (highly preferred): IAM, Cloud security best practices, Security monitoring and controls within AWS environments. This role is ideal for someone who understands how to balance security best practices while enabling innovation and flexibility for engineering and research teams.

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San Francisco, CA2 days ago

Client is re-writing the risk model for the non-QM mortgage market -combining data analytics, proprietary risk intelligence, and Loan Defect Insurance to turn mortgage manufacturing risk into quantifiable, insurable outcomes for lenders, investors, and RMBS issuers. · Design, build, and maintain SAI's core data infrastructure: loan tape ingestion across all non-QM formats, warehouse tables, canonical identifiers, and gold datasets with full lineage tracking.

Los Altos, CA7 days ago

Position Overview:Looking for a consultant to deploy and extend our Python metrics pipeline for processing robotics test data (ROS2) in AWS. ECLARO is currently recruiting for a Robotics Metrics Infrastructure Engineer in the Los Altos, CA area for one of our clients.

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San Francisco, CA5 days ago

$180,600–$289,300 Per Year

7+ years of experience in Database management, Big Data Engineering and Data Analytics • Proven track record in designing and implementing scalable, flexible data models that support evolving business and analytical needs. Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

New!

San Jose, CA1 day ago

Full-time

has the following position available in San Jose, CA: Autonomous Driving Machine Learning Engineer (MER-AR): Develop machine learning algorithms, including deep neural networks that perform perception tasks. Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.

San Francisco, CA14 days ago

$180,000–$200,000 Per Year
Full-time
Employee

Strong programming skills in Python with 5+ years of experienceProven experience with data engineering or distributed systems (Spark, Hive, Trino, StarRocks, DBT, Airflow, Kubernetes).Deep understanding of LLM-based systems and agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, OpenAI MCP, A2A).Hands-on experience with API design & integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).Knowledge of cloud infrastructure & container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).Strong understanding of IAM, security, and multi-tenancy in enterprise systems. Background in authorization/identity systems (ReBAC, RBAC, Zanzibar-style).Familiarity with observability (OpenTelemetry, DataHub, MLflow, Prometheus).Experience in enterprise AI governance (audit, lineage, compliance).Contributions to open-source AI frameworks (LangChain, OpenAI MCP, Hugging Face, etc.).

South San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

Remote

Full-time

Utilize data to track the performance and effectiveness of the IntelliSep solution in improving clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, and financial performance, and provide insights into customer-related metrics and the potential impact on patient outcomes and hospital reimbursement. The role will encompass data analysis and curation from multiple large clinical datasets to inform internal reports, external presentations, manuscripts, and publications, and to inform future clinical trial design.

Oakland, California30+ days ago

$96,096–$100,235 Per Year

Research Engineers are building scientists and engineers a few years into their career who work side by side with more experienced staff to learn about the clean energy industry, learn new analytic skills, engage in sophisticated research projects, and participate in the evolution of our business. Our research consulting projects are focused on how advanced energy solutions like energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy resources, emerging tech, microgrids, storage, and electrification can help drive the clean energy transformation.

New!

San Francisco, CA1 day ago

The Role: As a Research Engineer - Brain Computer Interface Models , you will be a core contributor to Zyphra's BCI work, building the next generation of open-source EEG and brain–computer interface models. You will be involved across the full model lifecycle, from data collection and preprocessing to designing novel architectures and training methodologies.

Santa Clara, California22 days ago

You will research, prototype, and implement advanced AI techniques, contribute to internal innovation, and help share practical AI learnings for developers building on high-performance AMD hardware. Demonstrated experience training and scaling LLMs and transformer-based models, including challenging training tasks, distributed/parallel training, and performance tuning across large workloads.

New!

Palo Alto, CA1 day ago

Post-training at Rhoda means taking a causal video generation model pretrained on internet-scale data and fine-tuning it on robot-collected demonstrations to produce reliable, generalizable behavior — with as little task-specific data as possible. Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning — reward design, policy optimization, and online RL training loops — applied to real or near-real environments (robotics, games, simulated physics, or similar); this is a significant plus .

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San Francisco, CA4 days ago

$180,000–$250,000

You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders and external data suppliers to diagnose quality issues, improve workflows, and continuously fold QA learnings back into the platform. Build tooling and workflows to audit supplier-generated datasets, including sampling strategies, validation pipelines (rule-based and model-assisted), and feedback loops.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$138,000–$206,000 Per Year

Architecture Research Lab is seeking Senior CPU Architecture & Performance Engineer to contribute to performance analysis and microarchitectural optimization of current and next-generation CPU (RISC-V) cores. We extend comprehensive accommodations throughout our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, neurodivergent individuals, or those requiring pregnancy-related support.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$219,000–$351,000 Per Year

Architecture Research Lab is seeking Principal CPU Architecture & Performance Engineer to lead the definition, analysis, and optimization of next-generation CPU microarchitectures (RISC-V core). We extend comprehensive accommodations throughout our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, neurodivergent individuals, or those requiring pregnancy-related support.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$163,000–$253,000 Per Year

Master's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related filed with 8+ years of experience or PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5+ years of experience. Architecture Research Lab is looking for Staff CPU Architecture & Performance Engineer to drive detailed performance analysis and architectural optimization for current and next-generation CPU (RISC-V) cores.

Foster City, CA30+ days ago

Zoox is on an ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities and safely deploy such a robotaxi solution. As a safety research engineer focused on quantitative risk assessment, you will help Zoox to improve and expand our existing safety risk assessment framework.

Mountain View, CA13 days ago

Full-time
Employee

The Gemmaverse Variants program pursues and supports end-to-end research and landing of high-impact, specialized Gemma variants (e.g., C2SGemma, SignGemma, DolphinGemma), transforming pioneering ideas into beneficial, real-world solutions to human-scale problems. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

You’ll collaborate closely with researchers tackling unsolved challenges in reinforcement learning and agent behaviour, shaping experiments, scaling infrastructure, and refining how agents learn in the loop. You’ll work end-to-end across environment design, reward dynamics, and scalable simulation — developing the feedback loops that define what “good” looks like for intelligent behaviour.

New!

San Francisco, California5 days ago

$150,000–$350,000 Per Year

The role sits between research and engineering — you're expected to read papers, implement architectures, debug large-scale training issues, and reason about model behavior and optimization at a deep level. Backed with strong funding and compute resources, Tilde operates with a small, highly selective team at the intersection of research and engineering.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$97,600–$152,000 Per Year

We are a small, close-knit and agile team; the engineer will work closely with perception, controls, and autonomy engineers to develop state estimation and navigation capabilities that connect perception systems to flight control and mission management. The engineer will be expected to deliver high-quality flight software, act with agency, and be capable of picking up a wide variety of tasks spanning research prototyping, production flight software, and analysis tooling.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$149,000–$206,000 Per Year

We are a small, close-knit and agile team; the engineer will work closely with other software/controls engineers to develop simulation capabilities, control algorithms ranging from stabilization to basic autonomy, and analyses/tests to leverage simulation software for aircraft design and rapid iteration. Overview: Joby Aviation’s Flight Research team is looking for an experienced and driven Guidance, Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to contribute to the research and development of new aircraft configurations.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes. Your primary responsibility is to review and evaluate competitive solutions to provide precise, accurate, and timely information that is leveraged by our internal sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams.

Santa Cruz, California8 days ago

$136,100–$152,000 Per Year

You will work across multiple concurrent workstreams, including flight controls, mission management, embedded systems, simulation, ground control station software, and test infrastructure to help the team prioritize the highest-value work and deliver software tied to flight test campaigns and program milestones. You will partner closely with engineering, flight test and program leads to translate high-level objectives into technically grounded execution plans, maintain clarity around dependencies and risks, and keep the team focused on what matters most.

Santa Cruz, California8 days ago

$167,900–$245,000 Per Year

Mountain View, CA30 days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, engineers work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users.

San Francisco, CA17 days ago

$100,000–$300,000

Our robots are already deployed on live sites in New York City, helping accelerate schedules for large-scale commercial projects while improving safety and predictability on the job site. Backed by Tier-1 investors, Origin is working to close the gap between America’s surging demand for housing, data centers, and manufacturing infrastructure, and the construction industry’s growing labor shortage.

Mountain View, CA9 days ago

Full-time
Employee

South San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$160,000–$185,000 Per Year

Strong track record of embedding DevOps capabilities directly within R&D or scientific teams, supporting rapid iteration and experimental workflows, with demonstrated deep analytical skills applied to troubleshooting code and resolving infrastructure issues. We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Technology Department to serve as a key technical partner enabling cloud-based scientific computing and drug discovery efforts focused on G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

$142,400–$247,600 Per Year

15+ years of relevant experience in technical areas related to cloud computing, distributed computing, ML Engineering, natural language processing, database systems, security, data platforms. Depending on their level of experience, the successful candidate would be expected to contribute in several of the following areas: + Establish and drive thought leadership opportunities related to topics of importance.

New!

San Jose, CA1 day ago

$170,000–$192,000 Per Year

You'll own the schemas, pipelines, and shared software that let our modeling stack grow with the product - making simulations faster to run, results easier to trust, and insights transparent to engineering teams and executive stakeholders alike. Backed by industry giants like NVIDIA, AMD, Mediatek and Intel and manufactured in partnership with the world's leading semiconductor ecosystem, Ayar Labs' co-packaged optics solution is key to unleashing next-generation AI scale-up architectures.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$186,200–$297,300 Per Year

This role sits at the intersection of simulation, embedded software, and hardware, and is responsible for building and operating a high-fidelity integration and verification platform that forms the backbone of system-level test infrastructure. Overview: Joby’s Flight Research group is seeking a highly capable Integrated Systems Test Lead to own system-level verification for new aircraft programs.

Mountain View, CA21 days ago

Full-time
Employee

We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., Large Language MOdels (LLMs), Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$90,800–$155,400 Per Year

In a rapid prototyping environment, the engineer will be responsible for designing the architecture, components, assemblies, and installations; building test articles, manufacturing assemblies, and installing them; and running tests and iterating. Required: B.S. in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, other relevant discipline and 3+ years of working experience in a relevant industry OR in lieu of a degree, 5+ years of working experience in a relevant industry.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

In this role, you will collaborate with a small team of talented researchers on ambitious, greenfield projects in generative AI and reinforcement learning. An incomplete list of current and near-term research directions: Contrastive representation learning.

Mountain View, CA14 days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.Minimum qualifications: PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Mountain View, CA22 days ago

Full-time
Employee

We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Mountain View, CA17 days ago

Full-time
Employee

We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Sunnyvale, CA14 days ago

Full-time
Employee

We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work directly with the model builders (e.g., Google DeepMind/Vertex), learn and work with brilliant AI leaders, and have access to global customers via our existing Google Cloud relationships.

Campbell, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

Use advanced expertise to work directly with customer representatives, marketing, physicians, pre-clinical engineering, and regulatory affairs to understand user interactions, identify product opportunities, and develop comprehensive product requirements. Ability to be self-directed with minimal direction and supervision and take initiative to discern from multiple priorities when guiding a technical project team toward efficient solutions and opportunities; ability to multi-task efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

San Francisco, California20 days ago

$150,000–$350,000 Per Year

Strong signals include backgrounds from Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Google, Waymo, Intrinsic, and David AI, with direct computer vision experience, robotics exposure, and applied performance engineering depth. Their thesis: high-quality video training data is the key bottleneck limiting progress in video AI, robotics, AR/VR, generative media, and agentic systems.

Campbell, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

Use advanced expertise to work directly with customer representatives, marketing, physicians, pre-clinical engineering, and regulatory affairs to understand user interactions, identify product opportunities, and develop comprehensive product requirements. This position uses advance expertise and deep technical knowledge to design innovative new products and solutions that advance product development initiatives in one of the specific engineering focuses mentioned below.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

Milpitas, California, United States of America, Mountain View, California, United States of America, Palo Alto, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Jose, California, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America, South San Francisco, California, United States of America. Prototype and develop proof of concept designs, disease models and test methods of testing these concepts in a simulated environment and develop new product designs based on the defined user needs.

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Research Engineer Jobs in Los Altos, CA

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Sr. Business Intelligence Engineer - Digital Experiences & Capabilities Visa Technology and Operations LLC

Autonomous Driving Machine Learning Engineer Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.

Senior AI Platform Engineer Company Confidential

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Lead Research Engineer TRC Companies, Inc.

Research Engineer - Brain Computer Interface Models Zyphra

Staff AI Research Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Research Scientist / Engineer - Post-training & Robot Learning Rhoda AI

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Senior, CPU Architecture & Performance Research Engineer Samsung Semiconductor

Principal, CPU Architecture & Performance Research Engineer Samsung Semiconductor

Staff, CPU Architecture & Performance Research Engineer Samsung Semiconductor

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Research Engineer, Gemmaverse Variants Research, DeepMind Google

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ML Engineer — Tilde Research David Joseph & Company

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Research Engineer, Generative AI, Virtual Try On Google

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