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Oct 05, 2026
Full time
Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) Research Scientist & Software Developer
$150,000 - $160,000 yearly
Bowhead San Diego, CA
COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNECTICS RESEARCH SCIENTIST & PROGRAMMER (HITS-R): Bowhead seeks highly skilled and motivated Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) Research Scientist and Programmer to join our advanced modeling and simulation team to support the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Integrated Technical Services -Restricted (HITS-R) contract headquartered in San Diego, CA. The ideal candidate will contribute to the development of cutting-edge CEM algorithms and software to address critical Department of War (DoW) capability gaps. This role involves the entire lifecycle of technology development, from theoretical research and algorithm design to implementation in production-quality software, and engagement with key stakeholders. Design and develop novel CEM algorithms to advance DoW modeling and simulation capabilities. Stay current with emerging technologies and innovative trends in the CEM field to ensure solutions remain state-of-the-art....
Sep 01, 2026
Full time
Research Programmer II
$108,000 - $124,000 yearly
University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, CA
The University of Southern California (USC), founded in 1880, is located in the heart of downtown L.A. and is the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. As an employee of USC, you will be a part of a world-class research university and a member of the “Trojan Family,” which is comprised of the faculty, students and staff that make the university a great place to work. About CSI-Cancer The USC Michelson Center Convergent Science Institute in Cancer (CSI-Cancer) brings together engineers, data scientists, biologists and clinicians to tackle fundamental and translational problems in cancer—from mechanistic modeling and physical dynamics of metastasis to high-content single cell data and advanced machine learning. Our vision is to integrate patient, model system and high‐dimensional data to achieve a mechanistic understanding of cancer dynamics across scales. We are studying circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and other analytes in liquid biopsies (blood, bone marrow...
Oct 09, 2026
Full time
Principal Software Engineer - DevSecOps
Raytheon Collins Aerospace San Jose, CA
Date Posted: 2026-10-08 Country: United States of America Location: US-CA-SAN JOSE-826 ~ 200 Holger Way ~ BLDG 826 Position Role Type: Onsite What You Will Do : Partner with AST Digital Technology, RTX Enterprise Services, and Digital Technology teams across Raytheon and Collins Aerospace to foster alignment, integration, and operational synergy across AST’s DevSecOps ecosystem. Drive and manage the AST’s DevSecOps development environment, tooling, and process workflows. Coach, mentor, and enable engineering teams to adopt and utilize AST’s DevSecOps ecosystem and workflows. Oversee the installation, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise DevSecOps applications, including: Application and plugin installations/deployments, upgrades, patches, and configurations. System migrations and cross-application integrations. User provisioning, access management, and permissions. Provide project and technical user support, including:...
Oct 09, 2026
Full time
Sr. Principal Software Engineer - DevSecOps
Raytheon Collins Aerospace San Jose, CA
Date Posted: 2026-10-08 Country: United States of America Location: US-CA-SAN JOSE-826 ~ 200 Holger Way ~ BLDG 826 Position Role Type: Onsite What You Will Do: Partner with AST Digital Technology, RTX Enterprise Services, and Digital Technology teams across Raytheon and Collins Aerospace to foster alignment, integration, and operational synergy across AST’s DevSecOps ecosystem. Drive and manage the AST’s DevSecOps development environment, tooling, and process workflows. Coach, mentor, and enable engineering teams to adopt and utilize AST’s DevSecOps ecosystem and workflows. Oversee the installation, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise DevSecOps applications, including: Application and plugin installations/deployments, upgrades, patches, and configurations. System migrations and cross-application integrations. User provisioning, access management, and permissions. Provide project and technical user support, including:...
Oct 09, 2026
Full time
Lead, Software Engineering 1
L3Harris Carlsbad, CA
L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security. Job Title: E lectronic Warfare (EW) and Digital Communications Engineer Job Code: 45924 Job Location: Salt lake City, UT/Carlsbad, CA Job Schedule: 9/80 employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other...
Oct 08, 2026
Full time
Perception Software Engineer, Autonomous Driving
Lucid Motors Newark, CA
About Lucid At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience.  We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle,...
Oct 06, 2026
Full time
Autonomy Software Engineer
$147,000 - $210,000 yearly
Skydio San Mateo, CA
Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios, and beyond. About the role: As an Autonomy Engineer, your primary goal will be to make our autonomy system more capable and more reliable for all of our customers. You will own developing new autonomous capabilities end-to-end and deploying these capabilities to customers tackling a wide range of use cases, including inspection & mapping, drone-as-first-responder (DFR), security/patrols, situational awareness, and more. These represent some of the first real-world deployments of truly autonomous robots performing valuable...
Oct 02, 2026
Full time
Specialist, Software Engineering
$84,500 - $180,000 yearly
L3Harris Los Angeles, CA
L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security. Job Title: Specialist, Software Engineering Job Code: 45377 Job Location: Los Angeles, CA or Melbourne, FL Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked (Every Other Friday Off)      Job...
Oct 01, 2026
Full time
Senior Software Engineer
KBR El Segundo, CA
Title: Senior Software Engineer Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR (formerly LinQuest) is the prime contractor on the MSEIT contract. You will join a systems engineering team defining the next generation of space communication systems supporting US Space Force (USSF) satellite communications. You will support Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I) activities in a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. You will interface and collaborate with SE&I team members, contractors, government civilians and members of the USSF. You will lead and support several working groups responsible for leading technical discussion, resolve and identify risk, requirement...
Oct 01, 2026
Full time
Software Engineer - Real-Time Geospatial Mapping for Planetary Exploration
$145,000 - $230,900 yearly
KBR Mountain View, CA
Title: Software Engineer - Real-Time Geospatial Mapping for Planetary Exploration BELONG. CONNECT. GROW. with KBR. Around here, we define the future. We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers. But we all share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely. Description of work effort: Join NASA Ames writing software to help explore the moon! Help us meet the emerging needs of Artemis, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) and future Moon-to-Mars missions. Looking for a software engineer to assist with development of two coordinated work efforts: M2M CSDS - the Moon to Mars Collaborative Science Data System WITME - Web-Based Integrated Terrain Model Estimation tool These tools provide a reusable, science-centric collaboration platform that enables distributed science teams to collectively visualize, analyze, and interpret mission data in support of time-critical decision making.  They will prototype capability...
Oct 01, 2026
Full time
Software Engineer - Real-Time Geospatial Mapping for Planetary Exploration
$145,000 - $230,900 yearly
KBR Mountain View, CA
Title: Software Engineer - Real-Time Geospatial Mapping for Planetary Exploration BELONG. CONNECT. GROW. with KBR. Around here, we define the future. We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers. But we all share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely. Description of work effort: Join NASA Ames writing software to help explore the moon! Help us meet the emerging needs of Artemis, Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) and future Moon-to-Mars missions. Looking for a software engineer to assist with development of two coordinated work efforts: M2M CSDS - the Moon to Mars Collaborative Science Data System WITME - Web-Based Integrated Terrain Model Estimation tool These tools provide a reusable, science-centric collaboration platform that enables distributed science teams to collectively visualize, analyze, and interpret mission data in support of time-critical decision making.  They will prototype capability...
Oct 01, 2026
Full time
Software Engineer
$87,100 - $157,450 yearly
Leidos San Diego, CA
Ignite your curiosity. Solve the unsolvable. At Leidos, we do more than write code—we decode the unknown. Our San Diego-based research and engineering team takes on some of the nation’s toughest defense challenges using advanced signal processing, ocean remote sensing, and high-performance computing. We’re seeking a Software Engineer / Computer Scientist who enjoys solving complex problems and pushing the limits of performance. In this role, you’ll work alongside a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers with expertise in hydrodynamics, physics, acoustics, and signal processing to build impactful software that turns massive, complex data sets into meaningful insight. If you are motivated by innovation, energized by collaboration, and excited to see your work support real-world missions, this could be the right opportunity for you. What You’ll Do Collaborate with scientists and engineers to design, develop, and optimize advanced algorithms for next-generation radar,...
Sep 23, 2026
Sr. Software Engineer, Energy Optimization
$140,000 - $300,000 yearly
Tesla Palo Alto, CA
Opticaster's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy by optimizing how batteries are charged and discharged to maximize value for customers and the grid. Our advanced algorithms determine the best times to store and use energy, considering electricity prices, solar generation, and grid conditions. These optimizations power Tesla's energy products, including Megapacks, Powerwalls, Virtual Power Plants, and microgrids. With a global fleet of over 500,000 residential systems, our software operates at scale, requiring robust and efficient solutions. Opticaster also plays a key role in supporting grid stability through programs like demand response and by integrating with Autobidder to actively participate in energy markets. Opticaster is a customer-facing product: the software you build directly shapes how hundreds of thousands of homes and energy sites store, use, and export energy every day. As a Software Engineer on Opticaster, you will build the...
Sep 23, 2026
Software Engineer, Training Performance, AI Infrastructure
$118,000 - $390,000 yearly
Tesla Palo Alto, CA
As a Software Engineer within the Autopilot AI Infrastructure team, you will work on reinforcing, optimizing, and scaling our infrastructure components supporting AI research activities for Autopilot and the Optimus. At the core of our autonomy capabilities are neural networks that the research team is designing to train on very large amounts of data, across large-scale GPU clusters. Robustly training these models at scale and in the shortest amount of time is critical to our mission. The Role Reduce wall clock time to convergence of our training jobs by identifying bottlenecks in the ML stack, from data-loading up to the GPU Integrate efficient, low-level code with the overall high-level training framework Profile our workloads and implement solutions to increase training efficiency Optimize workloads for efficient hardware utilization (e.g. CPU and GPU compute, data throughput, networking) Requirements Members of the Autopilot AI Infrastructure...
Sep 23, 2026
Software Engineer, Distributed Training, AI Infrastructure
$118,000 - $390,000 yearly
Tesla Palo Alto, CA
As a Software Engineer within the Autopilot AI Infrastructure team, you will work on reinforcing, optimizing, and scaling our infrastructure components supporting AI research activities for Autopilot and the Optimus. At the core of our autonomy capabilities are neural networks that the research team is designing to train on very large amounts of data, across large-scale GPU clusters. Robustly training these models at scale and in the shortest amount of time is critical to our mission. We are building and improving the in-house distributed training framework used by the research team to train production models, ensuring good ergonomics and flexibility for experimentation while providing good stability and performance. The Role Write robust Python software code in our machine learning training repository while applying best software practices to support the research team Increase the reliability of our training jobs by debugging and root causing failures across...
Sep 23, 2026
Embedded Software Engineer, Cell Formation
$120,000 - $210,000 yearly
Tesla Fremont, CA
The Cell Equipment Design team is responsible for delivering high-capacity manufacturing systems to production. Our firmware processes millions of cells and determines their performance in our products. Tesla seeks an embedded software engineer to join the team in developing firmware, controlling in a reliable and safe manner for a variety of cell development projects including all Formation manufacturing processes, Cell Qualification phases, and special applications. The engineer is expected to perform software development through all product build phases, be a key partner between manufacturing and electrical design engineering, beginning with PCBA component and system design validation, factory acceptance testing, and production sustaining. We're looking for a motivated engineer to join our team and take responsibility for one of the many products we're currently designing (some announced, some not). The role will write software ranging from embedded C real-time controls to...
Sep 23, 2026
Kernel Optimization Software Engineer, AI Hardware
$176,000 - $420,000 yearly
Tesla Palo Alto, CA
The Performance Optimization team takes research models and makes them run efficiently on Tesla's AI-ASICs, powering Autopilot and Optimus. This role sits at the intersection of AI research, compiler development, kernel optimization, and hardware design. You'll collaborate with AI researchers on novel quantization techniques, precision improvements, and non-standard architectures. You'll develop optimized kernels using our MLIR-based compiler stack to achieve real-time latency for self-driving and humanoid robots. You'll work directly with hardware teams to shape our next-generation AI5, AI6, and Dojo3 chips. The Role Implement, optimize, and profile highly performant kernels for inference and training on Tesla's AI and Dojo ASICs Optimize bottlenecks in the inference flow, make precision/performance tradeoff decisions, and develop novel techniques to improve hardware utilization and throughput Work on a variety of edge and datacenter workloads, from small...
Sep 23, 2026
Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Cell Manufacturing
$117,800 - $245,100 yearly
Tesla San Diego, CA
The Cell Manufacturing team is looking for a motivated Distributed Systems Software Engineer to help design software solutions for a high volume, cell charging/discharging system. As a member of the software and firmware team, you will be responsible for implementing and delivering high quality software to the Cell Product and Qualification programs. You will show outstanding organizational and communication skills and an eagerness to learn in a dynamic environment. You will be a team player in a collaborative workplace. The Role Produce robust software to support global manufacturing and qualification across multiple factories. Architecting scalable software systems and author their documentation Develop services within the Cell Manufacturing organization such as implementing concurrent systems, cell cycling (charging/discharging), defect detection algorithms, and high-speed data management Ship highly reliable code that is structured, documented, maintainable, and...
Sep 23, 2026
Fullstack Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform, AI Infrastructure
$140,000 - $390,000 yearly
Tesla Palo Alto, CA
As a Software Engineer within the Autopilot AI Infrastructure team, you will work on reinforcing, optimizing, and scaling our infrastructure components supporting AI research activities for Autopilot and the Optimus. At the core of our autonomy capabilities are neural networks that the research team is designing to train on very large amounts of data, across large-scale GPU clusters. Robustly training these models at scale and in the shortest amount of time is critical to our mission. We are building out the Machine Learning Platform that our engineers and leadership use to schedule, manage and monitor machine learning experiments, data pipelines and artifacts. The Role Architect and implement scalable, user-friendly tools for AI workflows to track and visualize the lifecycle of machine learning experiments and models Build robust tools and infrastructure to improve the machine learning team's velocity. This includes training and evaluation code in Python to...
Sep 23, 2026
Backend Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform, AI Infrastructure
$140,000 - $390,000 yearly
Tesla Palo Alto, CA
As a Software Engineer within the Autopilot AI Infrastructure team, you will work on reinforcing, optimizing, and scaling our infrastructure components supporting AI research activities for Autopilot and the Optimus. At the core of our autonomy capabilities are neural networks that the research team is designing to train on very large amounts of data, across large-scale GPU clusters. Robustly training these models at scale and in the shortest amount of time is critical to our mission. We are building out the Machine Learning Platform that our engineers and leadership use to schedule, manage and monitor machine learning experiments, data pipelines and artifacts. With the ever-increasing size of our datasets and compute clusters, we are looking for an experienced backend engineer to help drive scalability improvements and new capabilities in the platform. The Role Develop and deploy solutions to scale our infrastructure effectively in response to rapidly growing demands...