Top Python Jobs in San Diego, CA

The Director of Engineering - CAD will lead the development of SoC design methodologies, focusing on power delivery and implementation strategies across advanced technology nodes. Responsibilities include collaborating with teams to optimize designs and drive innovations in automation for complex systems.

Lead trajectory prediction and aircraft-response modeling for safety-critical runtime assurance systems. Develop and validate models using Python, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight-test data. Integrate trajectory behavior with autopilot interfaces, analyze vehicle-state and telemetry data, support flight-test campaigns, and contribute to C/C++ implementation, testing, and debugging. Coordinate with algorithms, software, systems, test, and platform teams while producing validation evidence and algorithm handoff artifacts.

Provides technical leadership for automated testing and verification across autonomy software, machine learning systems, distributed services, simulation environments, hardware-in-the-loop platforms, and GPU infrastructure. Owns test architecture, MLOps quality, CI/CD and continuous training workflows, ML validation, observability, failure triage, scenario-based testing, and scalable Python automation. Collaborates across software, autonomy, data, simulation, and systems engineering teams while governing AI-assisted testing workflows.

Build and operate Forge, a full-stack engineering platform for developing, testing, deploying, and diagnosing AI autonomy capabilities. Design composable user interfaces, typed versioned APIs, backend services, application lifecycle workflows, and AI-agent tool integrations. Ensure consistent behavior across local and remote environments while partnering with simulation, autonomy, ML, infrastructure, security, product, and design teams.

Develop and integrate safety-critical Run-Time Assurance software for autonomous aircraft. Responsibilities include modern C++ development, real-time embedded systems, hardware and simulation integration, HIL and flight testing, interface design, testing, CI, static and dynamic analysis, documentation, traceability, and collaboration across software, systems, test, and platform teams.

Integrate and verify autonomy software on aircraft hardware across SIL, HIL, ground, and flight-test environments. Develop test plans, test cards, schedules, and automation; identify and resolve interface, timing, protocol, and hardware/software integration gaps. Coordinate with aircraft vendors, configure test benches, troubleshoot anomalies, assess flight readiness, and analyze post-flight data. The role requires Linux and Python proficiency, cross-functional coordination, periodic travel, and eligibility for a U.S. DoD SECRET clearance.

Performs structural analysis and testing for advanced UAV airframes and components. Builds finite element models, conducts static, modal, fatigue, vibration, and shock analyses, validates results through hand calculations, and analyzes telemetry and test data. Collaborates with engineering teams to optimize lightweight composite and metallic structures for strength, weight, safety, and manufacturability. Documents technical findings and supports structural test planning, certification, and continuous improvement of analysis methods.

Leads platform engineering across DevOps, deployment, performance engineering, and AI-native tooling. Owns CI/CD enablement, internal developer platforms, observability, performance tooling, agentic AI integrations, and cross-team platform roadmaps. Designs scalable services and testing strategies, improves developer productivity, mentors engineers, drives technical standards, and coordinates governance and delivery across engineering organizations.

Build and operate Kubernetes-native platform services and distributed orchestration capabilities supporting AI workloads across cloud, on-premises, edge, sovereign, and air-gapped environments. Design production software, data-processing infrastructure, observability, deployment patterns, and operational standards. Establish reference architectures, reliability practices, benchmarks, and recovery procedures while partnering with autonomy, ML, simulation, infrastructure, and product teams. Provide hands-on technical leadership in distributed systems architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and platform reliability.

Leads software teams developing, integrating, deploying, and maintaining full-stack mission applications for DoD and intelligence customers. Builds prototypes and high-performance user interfaces, translates operator needs into features, integrates systems, and conducts deployment and field testing in secure operational environments. The role combines customer collaboration, product discovery, engineering leadership, and software delivery in high-security settings.

Maintain and improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of ServiceNow’s federal cloud infrastructure. Resolve infrastructure issues, automate repetitive work, develop monitoring solutions, reduce incidents and MTTR, and lead reliability initiatives across hardware, networking, systems, applications, and cloud technologies. This third-shift role supports government customers on a Sunday-Wednesday, 10-hour schedule with no on-call rotation.

Supports requirements analysis, technical documentation, interface mock-ups, Agile user stories, software testing, and customer collaboration in defense and intelligence systems development. Works with multidisciplinary teams on C4ISR, geospatial intelligence, and mission management applications. May travel for product demonstrations, software installations, and system testing while participating in BAE Systems’ Year One development program.

Develop and optimize C++ and Python software for autonomous behavior and motion planning. Design trajectory-planning algorithms for single- and multi-agent systems, build testing and simulation tools, diagnose concurrency and performance issues, and validate software on simulated and real hardware. Collaborate across teams on requirements, architecture, flight testing, and product maturation while mentoring engineers and applying advances in robotics and learned planning.

Build and operate developer tools, internal platforms, development environments, project templates, and AI-enabled workflows for Hivemind engineering teams. Improve developer productivity through reusable tooling, paved paths, documentation, adoption efforts, and inner-source practices. Partner with developers to identify friction, measure outcomes using DORA metrics and feedback, and drive technical direction. Staff-level responsibilities include leading cross-team initiatives and shaping organization-wide developer productivity strategy.

Own platform reliability, observability, incident response, scaling, capacity planning, and deployment automation. Monitor system health, debug and resolve incidents, build logging and monitoring tools, improve CI/CD pipelines, develop self-service automation, and strengthen high-availability delivery systems. The role requires clear incident communication, post-incident learning, and collaboration across engineering teams in secure, high-side environments.

Tests and validates geospatial software through automated and manual testing, test-plan development, defect troubleshooting, and acceptance-criteria verification. Maintains Esri Enterprise environments and PostgreSQL databases, tests SOCET GXP features, supports development environments, and ensures compliance with government specifications and GIS standards. Collaborates with developers throughout the software lifecycle and develops automation scripts across coordinate systems and projections.

Develop and test software controlling complex hardware and automated test equipment for defense and intelligence systems. Responsibilities include coding, debugging, software and hardware integration, regression and requirements testing, and working with AI/ML services. The role involves multidisciplinary collaboration, possible business travel for demonstrations and installations, and participation in a structured first-year engineering development program.

Designs and operates scalable platform infrastructure across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. Builds infrastructure-as-code frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, automation, observability, and secure deployment patterns. Partners with engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, resilience, compliance, and developer productivity across mission-critical systems.

Software Engineer Interns design, build, test, and debug production-quality software for autonomous systems. Projects may involve applications, embedded flight software, firmware, machine learning, simulation, APIs, data pipelines, or cloud infrastructure. Interns analyze requirements, collaborate with engineers using Agile practices, and deliver real features or capabilities during a 10–12 week paid internship.

Develop production perception software for autonomous systems, spanning algorithms, modern C++ libraries, integration, testing, validation, and SDK delivery. Work across object detection, tracking, computer vision, sensor modeling, mapping, and multi-sensor fusion. Diagnose complex system behavior, improve architecture, review designs, mentor engineers, and convert research or partner technology into dependable, reusable product capabilities. Evaluate foundation-model applications for autonomy and perception workflows.

Develop and implement advanced ASICs for aerospace, defense, commercial, and space applications. Responsibilities include physical design, synthesis, timing analysis, EMIR, layout verification, constraints, DFT, formal verification, scripting, and use of EDA tools. The engineer may lead complete design efforts, support advanced technology nodes and radiation-hardened designs, and contribute to post-silicon debug and testing.

Design and maintain C++ and Python software for complex cross-platform systems. Develop APIs, messaging interfaces, CI/CD workflows, and automated tests while integrating distributed real-time systems, simulation tools, and third-party hardware and software. Debug system-level issues involving threading, timing, and data flow, contribute to architecture, and collaborate across teams. The role requires active Secret clearance and supports potential progression to TS/SCI clearance.

Leads signal and power integrity for next-generation ASIC packaging, defining design rules, analyzing interposer, substrate, and PCB performance, and delivering high-volume package designs. Collaborates with layout teams, vendors, and system partners on advanced packaging and high-speed interfaces. Establishes design processes and tools, contributes to ASIC architecture reviews, mentors engineers, and drives technical improvements. Requires extensive high-speed ASIC tape-out, SerDes, SI/PI, electromagnetic analysis, and laboratory tool experience.

Lead the establishment and maturation of the SRE function across cloud infrastructure and platform services. Define reliability targets, build observability, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, improve resilience through automation and testing, and develop operational tooling. Partner with engineering teams on reliability requirements, establish incident practices, mentor engineers, and manage the short- and long-term SRE roadmap.

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.