Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

Design, develop, optimize, and debug ultra low-latency C++ streaming systems and media pipelines (WebRTC, GStreamer, RTP). Analyze performance across CPU, memory, networking, and scheduling. Integrate streaming software with platform services across Windows, Linux, QNX, and embedded platforms. Define KPIs for networking and streaming quality and troubleshoot across software, OS, platform, and hardware boundaries.

Leads architecture, design, implementation, troubleshooting, performance improvements, and delivery of network infrastructure software. Writes feature specifications and high-quality code, integrates libraries, reviews engineering artifacts, mentors and leads engineers, manages project status through customer delivery, and drives quality and scalability initiatives. The role also involves customer collaboration, industry engagement, intellectual property protection, and technical contributions through papers, talks, blogs, and standards.

Design, build, and operate high-scale, highly available payment APIs and distributed services using Java and Spring Boot. Integrate global payment channels, safeguard user assets through consistency, idempotency, reconciliation, and recovery mechanisms, and resolve complex distributed-systems issues. Collaborate across product, design, and partner teams, contribute to technical standards through design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and own systems from design through production.

Build and maintain full-stack cloud software for ocean-sensing systems, including React applications and TypeScript, Express, and PostgreSQL APIs. Own features end to end, from architecture and data storage through testing, CI/CD, monitoring, optimization, and maintenance. Collaborate with hardware, firmware, design, product, and science teams; improve performance for real-time data visualization; automate remote hardware configuration; and mentor engineers through collaboration and code reviews.

Lead the architecture and implementation of mixed-criticality embedded virtualization for surgical robotic systems. Define partitioning, hypervisor configuration, deterministic inter-VM communication, device virtualization, observability, and safety verification. Evaluate Xen and QNX, analyze freedom from interference, lead failure-mode assessments, implement mitigations, and influence technical direction. Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional initiatives from prototype through completion in a regulated environment.

Develop and integrate embedded chassis-control software for autonomous vehicles and ECU hardware. Responsibilities include functional-safety development, model-based toolchain design, release planning, testing, vehicle bring-up, calibration, data analysis, debugging, and hardware/software integration. The engineer will validate AV components through on-vehicle, simulation, SiL, and HiL testing while collaborating with requirements, software, hardware, and systems engineers to support safe, reliable Level 4 autonomous vehicle operation.

Design, build, and operate microservices and distributed systems; diagnose production issues; drive scalability, reliability, and observability improvements; and design AI agents that run natively in the infrastructure while collaborating with engineers.

Deploys and validates complete AI infrastructure software stacks on multi-node GPU systems, then converts implementations into technical documentation, automation, demos, training, and reference architectures. Tests prerelease software, evaluates interoperability and operational resilience, supports partners and field teams, collaborates with engineering and open-source communities, and recommends product improvements based on customer feedback. The role presents solutions through briefings, workshops, webinars, events, and internal training, with some travel required.

Build and operate production Kubernetes-based compute platform for large-scale data and ML workloads. Improve cluster reliability, GitOps delivery, multi-tenant scheduling, resource isolation, GPU workload orchestration, and reusable batch/workflow systems for petabyte-scale processing while contributing to QMS and continuous improvement.

Develop and maintain high-performance system software and middleware for autonomous vehicle platforms. Design scalable applications interacting with vehicle sensors and heterogeneous architectures, collaborate with hardware, embedded, and cloud teams, and troubleshoot stability, performance, and power issues. Ensure systems meet ISO 26262 functional safety and security requirements while optimizing CPU, GPU, memory, and real-time performance.

The Full Stack Software Engineer will design, develop, and ship full-stack features, improving the software for AI-powered robotic systems. Responsibilities include backend and frontend application development, API design, and system architecture refinement.

Build scalable, resilient backend microservices in Go; design gRPC/REST APIs; containerize with Docker; deploy and manage services on Kubernetes; implement asynchronous messaging (NATS/RabbitMQ); work with PostgreSQL; drive CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and documentation for greenfield robotics orchestration systems.

Build and productionize AI applications integrating LLMs and vision models into an edge-to-cloud robotics platform. Fine-tune and quantize models, deploy to NVIDIA Orin/Jetson and cloud GPUs, integrate Vector DBs/RAG/agent frameworks, and create data pipelines to collect and version sensor data for retraining.

Build and ship full‑stack product features for a browser-based CAD application: own front-end architecture and UX, maintain backend services (APIs, Postgres on GCP), write well-tested high-performance code (including C++ core), and lead customer-facing technical engagements to turn feedback into product improvements.

Design, implement, and evaluate machine learning and deep learning algorithms—especially ASR for live captioning—using C++ and Python. Build and optimize Conformer, RNN-T, Transformer encoder, and beam-search based systems, perform distributed GPU training, testing, debugging, and documentation. Work with large-scale computing frameworks and adapt ML technologies to VR/AR, robotics, and interactive products. Resolve complex problems, define methods for new assignments, and may coordinate other personnel.

Design and develop Zoom Contact Center features using Java and Spring Boot. Build secure, scalable microservices and RESTful APIs on AWS (EC2, ECS, ElastiCache, S3) with NoSQL. Translate roadmap into specifications, implement integrations, and drive cloud-based test automation and deployment strategies to ensure performance and stability.

Design, develop, test, and maintain networking systems software (Junos/Junos Evolved) and forwarding ASIC firmware. Implement and debug networking protocols (L2/L3/L4), collaborate with product teams, execute test plans, and communicate progress to stakeholders to deliver reliable networking solutions.

Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining backend services and infrastructure for the remote assistance platform, including APIs and data streaming solutions.

Leads architecture, development, verification, and certification of safety-critical embedded software for an aircraft Charge Control Unit. Serves as technical authority for high-voltage hardware interfaces, fault detection, diagnostics, hardware-software integration, and DO-178C/DO-326A compliance. Supports FAA certification audits, defines development and verification processes, analyzes schematics and power networks, conducts reviews, and mentors engineers.

As an Accelerator Software Engineer, you will develop firmware and software for an ASIC, collaborating on design and implementation across multiple domains, including host-side drivers and microcontroller architecture.

Develop and verify safety-critical embedded software for an aircraft Charge Control Unit. Design charge-control systems interfacing with high-voltage hardware, decompose requirements under DO-178C, implement fault detection and diagnostics, analyze schematics and signal integrity, conduct HIL testing, and support software certification processes.

Leads the architecture and development of enterprise infrastructure automation and configuration management platforms across compute, storage, networking, data centers, cloud, and hybrid environments. Defines long-term technical strategy, builds secure and scalable integrations, applies AI to configuration intelligence and remediation, and remains hands-on with software development. Mentors senior engineers, establishes engineering standards, drives enterprise adoption, and partners with leadership on technical roadmaps and business outcomes.

Design and operationalize firmware and software architectures for next-generation NVIDIA Edge AI platforms. Define scalable platform requirements with hardware, software, ISV, and IHV partners; develop reliable, debuggable firmware, diagnostics, and deployment tools; contribute from pre-silicon design through production; make technical decisions amid ambiguity; and mentor architects and engineering teams.

Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains scalable full-stack platform systems, APIs, SDKs, integrations, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered features. Leads architectural governance, technical delivery, reliability engineering, observability, performance optimization, security reviews, and CI/CD standards. Provides mentorship, conducts design and code reviews, resolves complex production issues, and collaborates with product, design, security, and infrastructure stakeholders.

Own the architecture, development, testing, integration, deployment, and troubleshooting of software components for analytical instrumentation platforms. Build gRPC microservice interfaces, maintain Linux-based applications, expand CI/CD automation, and support releases and sprint planning. Diagnose production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements. Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and coding standards while independently delivering features from requirements through production.