Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop software solutions for semiconductor equipment, lead projects, troubleshoot complex issues, and collaborate with customers on requirements.

Develop and troubleshoot applications for manufacturing processes, optimizing data collection and system efficiency through software engineering and automation.

The Software Engineer will design scalable ML workflows for AV simulations, develop and maintain simulation frameworks, and collaborate on AI-powered scenario creation and validation.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data processing pipelines and infrastructure (ETL/ELT). Implement large-scale data processing (Spark, MapReduce, Kafka), support stakeholders with analysis and reporting, ensure secure multi-region data handling, and optimize data delivery for analytics and business insights.

Lead validation readiness for NVIDIA PCIe data center GPUs through silicon bring-up, CUDA and driver testing, automation, test infrastructure, defect triage, and release planning. Develop test applications and CI/CD pipelines using Python, C, C++, CUDA, and Bash. Diagnose issues across hardware, firmware, operating systems, drivers, and applications while applying AI-assisted analysis to test results and failure investigation.

Lead design and implement a scalable chassis automation tool that translates SoC architecture requirements into generated RTL, registers, verification collateral, and integration artifacts. Collaborate with architecture, RTL, verification, and integration teams, enable PPA analysis, integrate with front-end/back-end flows, and mentor junior engineers to deliver high-quality automated outputs.

Lead design and development of diagnostics and validation systems for NVIDIA data center server platforms. Drive platform bring-up, hardware validation strategies, root-cause analysis, and diagnostic software across ODMs, CSPs, and field operations. Provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and define diagnostic architecture and roadmaps to ensure reliability and performance at scale.

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance safety-critical GUI and frontend software for the Ottava Robotic System. Build thread-safe C++ and QML applications using Qt, develop unit tests, lead software architecture and major feature design, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with clinical engineering, human factors, UX, product, and visualization teams.

The Staff Software Engineer role involves leading projects, coordinating engineers, improving processes, and representing PayPal to external partners, focusing on cloud and DevOps responsibilities.

Design and build AI-powered cybersecurity platforms that ingest and normalize massive security telemetry, correlate events, predict threats, and generate explainable findings. Develop Python backend services, distributed storage systems, and AIDevOps pipelines for rapid experimentation. Integrate foundation models, agentic systems, RAG, embeddings, and graph-based models into analyst workflows. Collaborate with product teams, security experts, and engineers to deliver scalable, trusted threat detection and automation capabilities.

Design and build AI-native cybersecurity platforms that analyze large-scale security telemetry, correlate events, predict threats, and generate explainable alerts. Develop scalable distributed systems, data pipelines, AI DevOps workflows, agentic systems, RAG and embedding solutions, and model integrations. Collaborate with security researchers, SMEs, product managers, and engineering teams to create trusted automation and analyst-focused threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities.

Design and build AI-powered cybersecurity platforms that process large-scale telemetry, detect and predict threats, and generate explainable alerts. Develop scalable Python services, distributed data systems, AI DevOps pipelines, agentic workflows, RAG capabilities, and model integrations. Collaborate with security experts, product managers, and engineers to validate AI features and improve analyst workflows for security operations.

Build full-stack engineering tools that integrate LLMs and RAG pipelines for production engineering apps. Own features end-to-end, integrate embeddings and models, implement telemetry monitoring, develop REST APIs and data pipelines, and collaborate with HDD R&D to automate workflows and reduce manual effort.

The role involves owning and maintaining HD maps infrastructure, defining storage formats, and collaborating with engineers and customers to enhance map-related features.

Build and maintain full‑stack web applications and APIs for data and simulation platforms. Design relational data models, backend Python services, async jobs, and React/TypeScript frontends. Implement tooling for scenario authoring, large-scale simulation runs, results browsing, and shared platform foundations (auth, access control, multi‑tenancy). Ensure production reliability, deployment, testing, observability, and compliance with the company Quality Management System.

Design and scale simulation infrastructure and AI agentic workflows to analyze large-scale simulation results, improve simulation-to-reality fidelity, and validate autonomous vehicle systems. Architect pipelines, metrics, and evaluation frameworks; collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to reproduce and resolve real-world issues and ensure quality and regulatory compliance.

Guide the technical direction of commerce experiences in the Venmo iOS app. Coordinate engineers, define technical tasks, improve engineering processes, balance quality and delivery priorities, establish generalized solutions, raise engineering standards, and represent PayPal with partners, customers, and industry organizations.

Leads Android engineering efforts for Venmo consumer mobile applications at scale. Owns software components across design, implementation, testing, delivery, and operations; defines technical tasks, contributes to roadmaps, evaluates implementation tradeoffs, and ensures reliable solutions. Mentors engineers, leads reviews and team processes, resolves technical issues, and communicates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Requires strong Kotlin, asynchronous programming, API integration, testing, design patterns, and mobile development expertise.

Research, develop, and productionize motion-planning algorithms for autonomous trucks. The role covers decision-making, trajectory generation, optimal control, uncertainty-aware planning, and integration with perception, prediction, controls, and safety systems. Engineers use C++ optimization frameworks and robotics tooling to build safe, comfortable, reliable behavior for complex driving scenarios. Responsibilities also include system diagnostics, algorithm tuning, technical design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration in safety-critical environments.

Seeking a Staff Storage Engineer to design and build control plane for an AI storage platform, focusing on scalability and performance across diverse environments.

Design, implement, test, and operate Venmo's cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems. Mentor junior engineers, troubleshoot incidents, build automation and infrastructure-as-code, improve reliability, and drive projects end-to-end for AWS-based, containerized services.

Lead design and implementation of AI-powered tools and cloud infrastructure to improve Venmo's DevOps and SRE workflows. Mentor engineers, build CI/CD and automation, operate distributed applications, troubleshoot incidents, integrate LLMs into developer tooling, and drive reliability, observability, and responsible AI practices across AWS-based infrastructure.

Lead design and implementation of GPU-accelerated libraries and integrations for Apache Spark. Develop Java/Scala and CUDA/C++ components for I/O and DataFrame operations, enable interoperability with table formats and metastores, contribute to open source projects, collaborate on distributed systems at scale, and optimize cross-platform CUDA/C++ libraries and CI/testing infrastructure.

Lead technical architect for OCI Networking platform services. Drive design and implementation of scalable distributed systems for routing, workload placement, and fleet lifecycle management. Partner across teams, mentor engineers, lead architecture and operational excellence, and own CI/CD and release automation for production-grade cloud infrastructure.

Design, build, and operate production-grade agentic AI services using LLMs, multi-agent workflows, RAG, and vector DBs. Implement prompt engineering, guardrails, model evaluation, secure RESTful backends in Python, and deploy scalable, observable systems on AWS with containerization and monitoring.