Top Senior Linux Jobs in San Diego, CA

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate cloud-native full‑stack products. Own frontend (React/Next.js), backend (C#/.NET or Java), APIs, and databases. Implement CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and SRE/DevOps practices. Collaborate with Product and Design, integrate AI/LLM features where appropriate, and drive technical quality and continuous improvement.

Bring up complex ASIC and SoC designs on Cadence Palladium emulation platforms, including RTL compilation, synthesis, mapping, clock and memory configuration, and firmware co-verification. Perform SystemVerilog and UVM simulation, develop tests and monitors, debug hardware and RTL issues, close verification coverage, and automate compilation and regression workflows using scripting languages.

Architect, develop, and optimize Intel’s oneCCL collective communications library for scalable AI and HPC workloads. Responsibilities include designing communication algorithms, improving distributed-system performance and resilience, troubleshooting system-level issues, optimizing multi-node and accelerator workloads, and collaborating with hardware architects, researchers, engineers, open-source contributors, and customers. The role requires expertise in C/C++, Linux, distributed systems, networking, operating systems, concurrency, and performance optimization.

Design, operate, and troubleshoot large-scale multi-vendor IP networks, Wi-Fi deployments, and authentication systems. Build Python, Bash, and vendor API automation for provisioning, configuration, diagnostics, and lifecycle management. Progressively develop software services integrating with network infrastructure using REST APIs, Linux, containers, and AWS. Serve as the network protocols subject-matter expert, support architectural and security reviews, document standards, mentor teammates, and participate in Agile development and on-call rotation.

Support certification of Nyx spacecraft flight software through verification and validation, requirements tracing, test planning, safety reviews, and formal standards application. Collaborate with software developers, system engineers, certification bodies, and safety authorities. Maintain functional design baselines, plan integrated mission testing, resolve technical issues, and contribute to software design and testing using C++ and Python.

Designs and leads automation across an MSP, integrating RMM, PSA, monitoring, ticketing, documentation, cloud, and infrastructure platforms. Builds PowerShell and Python tools, event-driven remediation, onboarding workflows, compliance checks, and scalable operational processes. Develops AI-powered solutions using LLM APIs and agentic frameworks for ticket triage, summarization, classification, root-cause analysis, reporting, and client communications. Requires strong IT operations, DevOps, API, CI/CD, infrastructure, documentation, and process-design experience.

Build 0-to-1 AI products that help scientists and engineers use Claude for scientific discovery. Own technical design and end-to-end delivery, partner with product, design, research, and go-to-market teams, engage directly with users and domain experts, and improve model capabilities for science and engineering workflows.

Provides senior systems engineering analysis across defense applications and common services. Evaluates designs, engineering changes, interfaces, technical evidence, network architecture, and system safety information. Reviews vendor specifications, test products, engineering documents, and drawings; prepares technical analyses, briefs, white papers, and recommendations. Participates in design reviews, technical interchange meetings, IPTs, and configuration control boards while documenting actions and supporting engineering documentation quality assurance.

Supports an Intelligence Community customer as an IT Systems Engineer SETA. Oversees desktop engineering and enterprise digital workspace initiatives, translates requirements into system solutions, coordinates technical analyses and modernization projects, advises on infrastructure roadmaps, manages requirements and documentation, and facilitates communication among government, engineering, mission, and customer stakeholders. The role provides technical oversight and recommendations without performing hands-on desktop engineering.

Design, analyze, prototype, build, and test spacecraft structures and deployable panels, with emphasis on composite materials. Perform launch-load, on-orbit, vibration, thermal, and finite element analyses; create technical documentation; manage vendors; support manufacturing, integration, qualification testing, and troubleshooting. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, technicians, and suppliers throughout the hardware lifecycle, including occasional launch and test campaign support.