Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

Build and own backend services, ERP and supplier integrations, AI agentic workflows, spend analytics, and customer-facing procurement features. Develop evaluation and monitoring systems for production AI, establish architecture, improve security and privacy, and mentor junior engineers. Collaborate directly with customers and founders to shape product direction in an early-stage environment.

Design and implement security features for an autonomous vehicle platform, working across sensor stacks, middleware, embedded and cloud systems. Develop secure system- and user-space software, guide cross-team security implementations, and improve security governance for AV fleets.

Design and develop autonomous tractor software for navigation, task execution, and state management. Write production C++, Python, and Rust in a ROS2/Linux environment, review code, debug hardware/software issues across a global fleet, and collaborate with AI/ML teams to deliver safe, reliable, extensible robotics solutions.

Design and implement product-level authentication, authorization, multi-tenant isolation, and privacy-preserving data lifecycles. Ship security-sensitive changes end-to-end, own application and API security, threat modeling, telemetry for security events, and integrate conservative partner security controls.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect infrastructure for simulation tests, lead cross-functional initiatives, and refine evaluation metrics to enhance autonomous vehicle technology.

Design, document, and implement low-latency C++ runtime software on Linux for GM's Autonomy Interface. Interface sensors and custom vehicle hardware, apply software best practices, use CI and automated testing, collaborate across teams, mentor developers, and deliver reliable embedded projects incrementally.

Build the enterprise platform for an AI creative product, including workspaces, roles, permissions, SSO, audit logging, usage-based billing, invoicing, and payment infrastructure. Design scalable APIs and multi-tenant architectures, strengthen security and reliability, and create React/Next.js administrative experiences. Partner with founders, sales, and customers to deliver enterprise requirements, establish engineering practices, and help shape the enterprise engineering team.

Design and implement map fusion, online BEV vectorization, and motion planning systems for autonomous vehicles. Build scalable C++/Python infrastructure, deploy deep-learning mapping models (ONNX→C++/TensorRT), optimize real-time planner latency and safety, and create anomaly detection for map/scene changes.

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance cloud gaming servers for GeForce NOW. Focus on game performance optimization, Linux kernel and KVM hypervisor work, system software at scale, kernel/user-space interactions, hardware/software bridging, and ensuring game performance and stability.

Design and implement solutions for managing a global server fleet, utilizing Go and Python, while working with Kubernetes and automation tools.

Responsible for architecting and developing AI security infrastructure, optimizing performance and scalability of systems, and driving innovation in a collaborative environment.

Design and implement high-performance datapath features (load balancing, firewall rules, L7 protocols) using deep C/C++ expertise. Drive projects end-to-end, optimize networking on Unix/Linux, and apply networking protocol knowledge (DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS).

Seeking an experienced Sr. Principal Software Engineer to design and develop platform-level software for networking devices, requiring extensive embedded systems knowledge and strong programming skills.

Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure software, network automation, and systems for dynamic multi-tenant environments. Develop secure distributed systems, APIs, and networking solutions; collaborate across teams and with partners; contribute to open-source projects; communicate roadmaps and technical progress; and own solutions from development through production.

Design and build software-defined networking infrastructure using EVPN and BGP architectures. Develop networking software, conduct code reviews, collaborate on underlay network architecture, implement multi-tenant networking solutions, establish networking strategies, and lead complex projects while ensuring high standards for reliability and correctness.

Build and optimize NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation model infrastructure for Physical AI. Responsibilities include end-to-end performance analysis, hardware-software co-design, distributed accelerator systems, multimodal data ingestion and curation, model training and post-training, inference optimization, quantization, deployment, and fault-tolerant infrastructure. The role also involves customer engagement and ecosystem enablement across data center and edge environments.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Workplace Service Delivery applications and workflows. Build new features, support customers during implementations and go-live, ensure security and reliability, mentor teammates, and troubleshoot performance while following engineering best practices and test automation.

Supports compiler and runtime development for in-memory machine learning accelerators. Responsibilities include accelerating compiler development, static analysis of program properties, compiler optimization for ML model latency and bandwidth, and collaboration with QA teams.

Leads technical direction for Venmo’s Consumer Financial Services backend platform. Designs and ships secure, scalable distributed systems for authentication, authorization, verification, and fraud risk. Establishes engineering standards, leads architectural reviews, mentors senior engineers, and coordinates multi-team initiatives. Partners with Product, Legal, Compliance, and Security to implement KYC, AML, GDPR, and PCI requirements. Owns service performance, availability, incident support, and technical strategy across the organization.

Develop software tools for manufacturing execution, troubleshoot software issues on the production floor, and optimize production processes. Collaborate with production teams to enhance operational efficiency and write technical documentation.

Build and operate the core platform for Boson AI's model APIs and agentic products: API serving, state management, distributed services, data pipelines, SDKs, retrieval and caching, observability, and integrations with ML and product teams. Grow ownership under senior mentorship while shipping production features.

Develop and maintain Cadence Genus synthesis software: design, implement, debug, and support features across logic synthesis, timing analysis, RTL compilation, placement, power and routing. Collaborate with distributed R&D teams to deliver high-quality EDA tools.

Design, develop, and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos across QNX, Linux, and hypervisors. Build BSP, boot, drivers, device management, networking, diagnostics, and I/O virtualization for NVIDIA SoCs. Ensure safety/security per ISO 26262/21434, use formal methods, optimize platform bring-up and performance, integrate Ethernet switching and automotive networking (PTP/TSN), and use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development.

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance C++ systems for ultra-low-latency media streaming. Build and improve streaming pipelines (WebRTC, GStreamer, RTP/RTCP), analyze performance across server, network, and media pipelines, and collaborate with encoding, cloud networking, and systems teams to define KPIs and reduce latency for cloud gaming and related use cases.

Design, develop, and debug system software for NVIDIA Halos across QNX, Linux, and hypervisor environments. Build BSP, boot, drivers, device-management, and I/O virtualization for NVIDIA SoCs. Use formal methods and AI-assisted tools to develop safety- and security-compliant software (ISO 26262/21434). Perform platform bring-up, performance analysis, debugging, and cross-team integration for mixed-criticality, real-time embedded systems.