Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

Design and implement embedded firmware for vehicle platforms: integrate vendor components (CAN, LIN, I2C, SPI, UART), develop RTOS applications, write high-quality C code for real-time and safety-critical systems, support hardware bring-up and SoC debug, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to productionize and maintain products.

Architect and develop reliable embedded software for vehicle platforms. Integrate vendor components and low-level peripherals, implement RTOS and Android/AOSP services, perform deep hardware and Android debugging, bring up and productionize custom device software, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain product releases.

Build and operate end-to-end ML infrastructure: distributed cloud GPU training, datasets, training frameworks, evaluation, deployment, and integrate pipelines into product workflows while collaborating with modeling teams.

Lead end-to-end feature development across the full stack, collaborate with product, design, and customer engineering, mentor and review code for a team of engineers, and incorporate customer feedback to iteratively improve automotive software products.

Design and implement full‑stack, infrastructure, robotics, and graphics solutions for autonomy workflows. Develop new products and features, write design documents, mentor engineers, own technical and product decisions, and collaborate with domain experts and customers to shorten time to market.

Design and implement a full-stack operating system: kernel, system services, runtime, application framework, BSPs, HALs, and device drivers. Write and review performance-critical code, implement IPC, memory management, security sandboxing, networking, and power/performance features. Collaborate with hardware partners/OEMs, engage with open-source projects, and mentor engineering peers.

Lead development and maintenance of software test infrastructure, including hardware testbeds and simulated test scenarios. Implement CI/CD-driven testing, integrate simulation tools, expand off-nominal test coverage, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team testing policy and planning to improve release velocity and mission success.

Lead and build internal information systems platforms and tools. Hands-on full‑stack development, own end-to-end delivery, define architecture and technology choices, align roadmaps with mission needs, define metrics, and collaborate across teams to automate manual tasks and improve operations.

Lead development of department-scale software test infrastructure, define testing policy and metrics, integrate Hardware-in-the-Loop and simulations into automated CI/CD testing, collaborate with hardware and simulation teams, mentor engineers, and improve test reporting and delivery velocity.

Build cloud-based mission planning and control systems, design cloud architecture, manage deployments with Kubernetes/Helm/AWS Lambda, process spacecraft telemetry with Kafka/InfluxDB/Grafana, integrate APIs with ground station networks, ensure low-latency fault-tolerant systems, and deploy infrastructure across workstations, on-premises data centers, and cloud environments.

Lead design and delivery of Muon's in-house simulation services. Integrate physical simulation models into products, align roadmaps with mission needs, collaborate with stakeholders and test teams, define success metrics, and mentor engineers to improve planning, estimation, and automated testing integration.

Design and optimize real-time C++ systems that stream live video, kinematics, and sensor data into computer vision and ML inference for robotic surgical navigation. Implement low-latency data pipelines, registration/calibration algorithms, integrate ML models, collaborate with UI/graphics teams, and own the navigation software lifecycle from requirements through verification and release in a regulated medical-device environment.

Design and implement production-quality embedded UIs for novel robotic medical systems using Qt/QML and C++. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define architecture, decompose requirements, and own the software lifecycle from prototyping through verification and release, ensuring performance, safety, and regulatory compliance.

Develop and execute automated software tests and test protocols for a robotic surgical platform; contribute to CI/CD pipelines, test plans, reliability verification, data analysis, issue logging, cross-functional debugging, and generate dashboards and executive summaries.

Lead technical projects for product scaling. Design and maintain APIs and services, ensuring reliability and user experience while collaborating with product teams.

Design and implement highly reliable, high-performance algorithms and systems software for modern data platforms. Own end-to-end delivery from concept to production, diagnose and resolve complex technical issues, influence cross-functional system design, and mentor junior engineers. Drive adherence to performance, reliability (e.g., six 9s), schedules, and architectural vision while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

As a Senior/Lead Software Engineer, you'll design and build network systems features, manage development processes, and collaborate with engineers and customers. Responsibilities include software development in C, C++, Python, and maintaining hardware drivers, while mentoring junior engineers.

Lead design and implementation of high-performance distributed storage systems and protocols (object, block, file) for AI infrastructure. Set technical direction, author designs, mentor engineers, integrate with hardware (NVMe, DPUs, GPU-direct), optimize performance, build benchmarking and observability tooling, and drive cross-team deployments and incident response in multi-petabyte data center environments.

Design, develop, and optimize a low-latency, high-quality media streaming stack for cloud gaming. Analyze GPU/CPU video pipelines, isolate bottlenecks, collaborate with hardware teams, build tools to measure video quality, and implement adaptive streaming and codec-based improvements for resilient performance under variable networks.

Lead validation of ML datacenter stacks from cluster to rack scale for CSPs: define test strategies, reproduce and triage customer bugs, validate fixes, run perf benchmarks, manage test data and tooling, produce release-readiness reports, and collaborate with internal and partner engineering teams.

Lead development of planet-scale mapping systems from crowdsourced fleet data. Design and implement 3D reconstruction, SfM, pose estimation, sensor fusion, map fusion, change-detection, and production C++ pipelines. Build evaluation, visualization, and debugging tools, and collaborate with perception, localization, and planning teams to integrate high-quality maps into autonomous driving systems.

Design and optimize high-performance C++/CUDA libraries for GPU-based data processing. Improve multi-node GPU communication (UcxExchange), optimize Presto GPU query performance, and lead enhancements across Presto, Velox, and cuDF projects for efficient DataFrame and database acceleration.

Lead design and implementation of a highly available GPU/CPU host and instance lifecycle control plane. Drive hardware enablement, BIOS/firmware and DPU integrations, multi-tenant security, and durable execution models. Provide technical leadership across teams, translate customer and datacenter requirements into scalable infrastructure, and set engineering standards for mission-critical, large-scale AI cloud systems.

Lead design and implementation of a highly available GPU/CPU host and instance lifecycle control plane. Bridge firmware, kernel, DPU, and semiconductor architecture with distributed systems. Provide technical leadership, mentor senior engineers, set engineering standards, collaborate with product and data-center teams, and translate customer requirements into scalable infrastructure.

Design, implement, and maintain embedded networking software for Ethernet switching products. Debug and fix existing code, collaborate with hardware teams, implement L2/L3 features, work with POSIX/System V multithreading, assist in system installation/troubleshooting, and produce high-quality, timely software.