Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads Illumina’s on-market product portfolio from pre-launch through end of life. Oversees portfolio governance, prioritization, sustaining investments, quality, compliance, lifecycle planning, resource allocation, risk management, and performance reporting. Partners cross-functionally with Development, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Marketing, and Commercial teams to improve product health, customer value, and business outcomes. Manages and mentors portfolio and program leadership staff while driving continuous process improvement and executive stakeholder alignment.

Leads enterprise strategy initiatives, frames ambiguous executive decisions, integrates market, scientific, technology, competitive, operational, and financial analysis, and advises executive and Board leadership. Develops strategic alternatives, clarifies trade-offs, supports decision follow-through, and leads and coaches senior strategy professionals across a global matrixed organization.

Leads complex, cross-enterprise strategy engagements from problem framing through executive decision. Develops market, competitive, scientific, technology, operational, and financial analyses; creates strategic alternatives and recommendations; advises senior leaders; and leads cross-functional project teams without formal authority. The role requires strong executive communication, financial modeling, structured problem-solving, scientific and technology fluency, and practical responsible use of AI to accelerate strategy development.

Owns recurring strategic portfolio management operations, including resource management, portfolio reporting, data validation, Time Editor administration, operational controls, documentation, and process improvements. Partners cross-functionally to resolve data and process issues, translate operational needs into business requirements, test tooling enhancements, and improve portfolio execution through standardization, automation, and scalable controls.

Analyzes business systems and user needs, gathers and documents requirements, develops functional specifications, facilitates business and technical design sessions, coordinates software enhancements, manages service requests and releases, supports QA, and leads assigned projects through completion. The role serves as a liaison among clients, vendors, business stakeholders, and IT development teams while ensuring solutions meet requirements, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

Analyzes complex business systems and user needs, translates requirements into functional specifications, facilitates solution design, leads projects, coordinates development and vendor teams, performs user acceptance testing, resolves product issues, and consults with clients. The role also documents business rules and processes, supports software enhancements, mentors less experienced analysts, and ensures projects meet scope, quality, schedule, and budget requirements.

Owns material availability and supply readiness across product lifecycle and industrialization activities. Coordinates engineering changes, supplier readiness, demand-supply alignment, risk mitigation, purchasing requisitions, and critical material expediting. Works cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, planning, procurement, customer support, and suppliers to support product introductions, configuration changes, operational readiness, and continuous supply chain improvement.

Support program cost and schedule control by interfacing with program managers and CAMs. Perform Earned Value Management tasks: WBS, baseline development, variance analysis, ETC/EAC, IPMR preparation, funding and cost risk analysis, and visibility reporting. Use MPM, SAP/BW, wInsight, and Microsoft Office to integrate cost/schedule data and support monthly program reviews and reporting.

Leads multiple defense technology programs across development and sustainment, managing cost, schedule, technical performance, budgets, risks, resources, requirements, suppliers, contracts, and cross-functional teams. Serves as a primary customer interface, delivers executive and government briefings, supports proposals and growth initiatives, and ensures compliance with program baselines and contractual requirements.

Design and integrate advanced air vehicle configurations using parametric CAD modeling, aerodynamic and vehicle performance analysis, and multidisciplinary trade studies. The role supports conceptual design through manufacturing and flight test, coordinates across engineering disciplines, and may lead configuration teams. Candidates must hold an active Secret clearance and obtain Special Program Access before employment. Travel up to 15% is required.

Manage complex tax engagements for real estate partnerships, corporations, and high-net-worth individuals; review and sign tax returns; provide strategic tax planning and ensure federal, state, and local compliance. Mentor and train junior staff, build client relationships, and support business development initiatives.

Architects, develops, and modernizes full-stack containerized applications and microservices. Builds Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, Helm releases, and DevSecOps security automation. Optimizes relational databases, hardens systems to DISA STIG standards, and mentors engineering teams. Requires strong Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, software architecture, and deployment expertise, plus a Secret clearance or ability to obtain one.

Administers health, welfare, retirement, compensation, and salary programs while ensuring legal compliance and equitable practices. Oversees benefits vendors, renewals, audits, reporting, employee communications, HCM optimization, and compensation surveys. Coordinates merit planning, salary adjustments, job analysis, and manager guidance on labor laws. Maintains HR policies, records, and systems, and supports benefits and compensation issue resolution. The role is an individual contributor based in San Diego with up to 5% travel.

Own and scale Firestorm’s export management and compliance program across ITAR, EAR, OFAC, customs, and allied-country regulations. Lead jurisdiction and classification determinations, licensing, screening, technical-data controls, audits, investigations, training, and government interactions. Advise Engineering, Legal, Business Development, Operations, and leadership; integrate compliance into ERP, PLM, and business workflows; manage outside counsel; and build the trade compliance team.

Analyzes consumer loan applications and performs credit risk assessments to determine borrower creditworthiness. Prepares credit write-ups, completes due diligence, monitors underwriting and approval queues, maintains credit quality standards, documents decisions, assists with fraud detection, communicates with customers and dealerships, and verifies loan document accuracy and completeness.

Leads UX design from discovery through delivery for complex, workflow-heavy digital products. Creates user flows, wireframes, prototypes, interaction models, information architecture, and design specifications. Partners with Product, Engineering, Research, Content, and CX teams to deliver accessible, inclusive, scalable experiences. Designs AI-enabled interactions, evaluates AI outputs, improves prompts, and balances trust, accuracy, user control, and human review. Contributes to design systems and maintains design quality throughout delivery.

Build, test, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud-native applications and APIs for digital health products. Contribute to features from concept through production, participate in design discussions, code reviews, automated testing, deployments, production support, and incident learning. Use AI-assisted development tools, telemetry, customer feedback, and automation to improve software quality and engineering productivity while collaborating with product, UX, quality, security, and engineering teams.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud-native applications and services. Own technical initiatives from architecture through production, make architecture decisions, improve reliability and developer productivity, and investigate incidents. Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, lead technical discussions, conduct code and design reviews, mentor engineers, reduce technical debt, and collaborate with product, UX, quality, security, and engineering teams.