Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

Lead architecture and implementation of AI-security products, define technical direction, drive cross-team initiatives, design secure scalable backend systems, and address systemic risks while remaining hands-on in coding, prototyping, and debugging.

The role involves designing and developing core features for the Linux sensor in CrowdStrike's security platform, collaborating with teams across the company, and maintaining software quality for cross-platform delivery.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement the backend architecture for Marimo's molab, focusing on high availability, low latency, and system stability, while utilizing CoreWeave's infrastructure.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Inference team, you'll lead architecture and optimization for Kubernetes-native AI workloads, enhancing performance and reliability across services.

Lead development of low-power verification software for Cadence Palladium and Protium platforms. Responsibilities include enhancing UPF debugging, event logging, violation detection, IEEE 1801 support, documentation, AI-assisted debugging tools, and unified workflows across emulation and prototyping environments. The role requires collaboration with R&D, product engineering, and applications engineering teams, along with strong debugging, C++ code comprehension, RTL language knowledge, technical writing, and communication skills.

Develop and execute software test plans, cases, and suites across complex systems. Build automated testing frameworks, validate APIs and integrations, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, isolate defects, perform root cause analysis, document findings, and collaborate with software engineers on corrective actions and quality improvements.

Develop and optimize large-scale data ingestion and serving infrastructure for autonomous vehicle systems. Build reliable pipelines, real-time and batch data services, validation checks, monitoring, and scalable distributed systems. Collaborate with AV development teams to improve data processing efficiency, latency, availability, and quality while documenting ingestion processes.

Build and maintain a portfolio of native Android applications and public SDKs for Clover POS devices, primarily using Kotlin. Contribute to Java backend microservices, define client-server API contracts, enforce payment security (PCI, EMV, tokenization), and own fleet stability and release operations across a large device network while supporting third-party integrations.

Develop and optimize trace-driven power and thermal simulation engines. Integrate IP-level power macromodels, workload traces, thermal solvers, and reduced-order models into scalable system-level simulation flows. Generate transient power maps, analyze spatiotemporal hotspots, and ensure performance, reproducibility, and maintainability. The role requires strong C++ software engineering, simulation framework development, time-indexed or event-driven architectures, debugging, software design, and performance optimization.

Build and maintain an agentic platform that transforms high-stakes medical and legal casework into structured context. Work across the full stack: agent architectures, eval frameworks, data ingestion/indexing, and user-facing tooling. Ship workflows, design reliability-focused evals and guardrails, iterate with user feedback, and set patterns for AI-native development in a healthcare context.

Design and implement reliable, scalable full‑stack web tools (backend and frontend) to automate and optimize chip design and verification workflows. Build web applications in Go, TypeScript, and JavaScript, model hardware-level product definitions, research solutions to improve engineering efficiency, and support hundreds of global users.

Design, develop, and verify Tegra core boot firmware for safety- and security-critical platforms. Define and decompose functional/safety requirements, perform FMEA/DFA on bootloader features, validate on pre-silicon simulation platforms, support silicon bring-up and post-silicon issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet automotive and datacenter quality and verification standards.

Develop and maintain open-source GPU-accelerated inference software for LLMs. Enable disaggregated serving across vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM for agentic inference (long-horizon reasoning, tool calling, multi-turn state). Optimize inference-state management, GPU memory and cache reuse, and distributed frontend performance, while prioritizing latency, throughput, and integration with upstream APIs and agent harnesses.

Develop and optimize embedded Linux software for da Vinci surgical robotics systems. Build platform APIs, SDKs, distributed data-processing and ML inference frameworks, hardware and network interfaces, and user-facing integrations using C++, Python, and shell scripting. Evaluate system architecture and performance across CPU, GPU, edge, and cloud environments while producing reliable, testable, production-ready code and technical documentation.

Design and build AI-driven web products and platform infrastructure for chip design workflows. Implement high-performance APIs, backend services, data pipelines, and distributed systems. Own technical strategy, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and work across frontend and backend to deliver scalable, maintainable tools.

Develop PILOT software that captures hardware data, integrates local and cloud data pipelines, and produces rigorous reliability insights. Build visualizations, analyze real-world data, document tools and findings, and collaborate with optical engineers, firmware engineers, and data center operators to define meaningful performance metrics and improve products and customer operations.

Lead development of scalable lab automation and validation infrastructure for 800G and 1.6T optical modules. Architect Python and C++ frameworks, integrate optical and electrical test instrumentation, automate signal and traffic testing, build data pipelines and dashboards, and orchestrate distributed laboratories with CI/CD integration across major networking platforms.

Lead architecture and development of Python-based hardware test frameworks, instrument drivers, test result databases, and UIs. Integrate frameworks with CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop systems, build shared spacecraft-level tests, partner with subsystem teams for adoption, and mentor engineers to ensure code quality across hardware test software.

Designs, builds, tests, and evolves enterprise AI agents, workflows, services, and applications. Owns technical decisions, architecture, scalability, security, responsible AI guardrails, and technical debt. Collaborates with product, UX, and engineering teams, conducts code reviews, communicates designs, and mentors junior engineers. Requires strong experience with production AI agents, LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, orchestration frameworks, and software development, with preferred expertise in C#, .NET, Python, containers, cloud deployment, and scalable APIs.

Develop and deploy LLM workflows and production machine learning models for nuclear-system design and analysis. Build surrogate models for real-time digital twins, manage data pipelines, maintain rigorous information controls, and lead AI initiatives from inception through delivery. The role also involves growing a software engineering team, presenting roadmaps and demos to leadership, gathering user feedback, and collaborating with nuclear engineers in a fast-paced startup environment.

Lead design and delivery of full-stack features across React UIs, Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, Kafka event services, and AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure. Architect reusable UI components, set technical direction with cross-functional partners, own logging/observability and platform concerns, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive engineering standards.

Build agentic engineering workflows that automate code generation, testing, tuning, and optimization across NVIDIA frameworks, compilers, and developer tools. Partner with engineering teams to identify high-impact use cases, develop multi-agent orchestration systems, integrate agents into Git and CI workflows, validate results on GPUs, and create scalable infrastructure and evaluation methods for broader adoption.

Develop embedded platform software for NVIDIA Jetson, IGX, and DGX Spark products. Responsibilities include hardware bring-up, boot firmware, Linux kernel device drivers, RTOS firmware, software SDKs, platform validation, debugging, and production deployment across the full product lifecycle. The role requires collaboration with hardware and global engineering teams to deliver system-level solutions for AI-at-the-edge platforms.

Develop and maintain Alkira's web and mobile UIs for the CSX platform using React/Redux. Build scalable, accessible component libraries, improve test coverage, work with REST APIs and Postgres, and participate in CI/CD. Collaborate in a hybrid team environment and deliver enterprise cloud networking features.

Develop signal processing algorithms and applications, focusing on detection, geolocation, and data analysis. Requires extensive experience in DSP and C++.