916 software engineer jobs found in 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: We are looking for a software engineer to build and evolve the core of the Skydio Simulator — a high-fidelity, real-time digital replica of the physical world used both by customers and by Skydio’s autonomy engineers every day. In this role, you will work deep in the simulator stack: from physics and sensor simulation, to hardware emulation, to the core architecture that runs our full autonomy software in simulation. You will help define how simulated worlds behave, how vehicles perceive and...

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: We are looking for a software engineer to build the cloud-native and full-stack systems that power customer-facing simulation at Skydio. In this role, you will design and implement the services, APIs, and interfaces that allow customers to configure, personalize, and interact with the Skydio Simulator at scale. This is not a pure cloud role: you will work closely with the simulator itself, interfacing directly with C++ and Python systems that run real-time simulation and autonomy software. You’ll...

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: We are looking for an experienced software engineer to lead the development of tools that support every stage of the autonomy lifecycle. You will be responsible for building and evolving core internal platforms that allow engineers to test new ideas, diagnose system behaviors, and understand complex interactions between software and the physical world. This role combines backend systems work with front-end visualization, and requires a strong sense of software design, developer experience, and a...

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 a Senior Software Engineer - Security at Skydio, you will partner closely with senior security engineers and cross-functional teams to design, review, and build systems that secure our multi-tenant cloud and corporate environments. You will split your time roughly evenly between architecture and hands-on engineering. On one side, you will review RFCs, shape system design, and advise on initiatives with meaningful security implications. On the other, you will build and harden internal security...

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. Skydio’s mission is to make the world a safer and more efficient place through the use of autonomous drones. Our customers—from public safety agencies to industrial and enterprise operators—deploy fleets ranging from a single drone to tens of thousands of drones and docking stations to support critical missions such as infrastructure inspection, emergency response, search and rescue, and large-scale mapping. About the role: As a Staff Software Engineer - Full-stack you will design and build the core cloud systems...

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: Skydio’s mission is to make the world a safer and more efficient place through the use of autonomous drones. Our customers—from public safety agencies to industrial and enterprise operators—deploy fleets ranging from a single drone to tens of thousands of drones and docking stations to support critical missions such as infrastructure inspection, emergency response, search and rescue, and large-scale mapping. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer you will design and build the core cloud and...

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 a Staff Software Engineer - Security at Skydio, you will partner closely with security engineers and cross-functional teams to design, review, and build systems that secure our multi-tenant cloud and corporate environments. You will split your time roughly evenly between architecture and hands-on engineering. On one side, you will review RFCs, shape system design, and advise on initiatives with meaningful security implications. On the other, you will build and harden internal security tooling...

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: We’re looking for a Wireless Software Engineer to join our team and help reimagine how WiFi and cellular links can be customized for autonomous drones operating in challenging, interference heavy, long-range environments. You’ll work hands-on with chipsets, dig into low-level firmware, and write software to extend range, boost reliability, and deliver steady, high-quality video streams in places standard WiFi was never meant to go. If you know wireless protocols, and love bending them, this is your...

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 team:  Our team is responsible for large portions of the software engineering stack, working on a wide variety of subsystems. We write bare metal and RTOS microcontroller code (stm32 product line), integrate and write code for embedded linux and android platforms (Qualcomm and Nvidia SOCs), maintain the associated linux kernels, and help design and bring up all new electronics.  We work closely with both the hardware team and the rest of the software organization, creating the foundation for the rest of...

Tesla Energy is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join the team responsible for system software for Megapack. Megapack is Tesla’s fastest-growing product and is proving increasingly critical to supporting today’s unprecedented load growth from electrification and new AI data centers. Our team ensures the software glue holding everything together is reliable, secure and scalable for our current and upcoming industrial storage products. We build solutions for firmware updates, advanced commissioning and diagnostic tools, site networking, secure control communications and other middleware. Candidates may have deeper experience in embedded and low-level systems or in networking, communication protocols and security. Strong programming knowledge, excellent debugging skills and the ability to ramp up quickly are critical to success in this role. The Role Develop and build a variety of features, tooling and drivers for Megapack system software Contribute across areas...

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...

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...

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...

The Chassis Controls software team is looking for brake, steering, stability, traction control Engineers to develop and calibrate world class chassis controls software. We are looking for both experienced candidates as well as newcomers eager to learn, who are looking to join a small team with large responsibilities. As a Chassis Controls Software Engineer, you will take on the full software development life cycle of chassis control features like Tesla in-house traction control and vehicle stability control from inception to development, calibration, testing, and release. Our team determines what problems to solve and works cross-functionally across hardware, software, vehicle dynamics, and controls to develop functions and features. We travel to proving grounds across the world to tune the calibration and perform extensive testing in-vehicle. We investigate service issues, address customer feedback, influence next generation hardware and controls architecture, and set the...

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, and our Robotaxi division is at the forefront of revolutionizing autonomous transportation. We aim to create a safe, efficient, and accessible network of self-driving vehicles that transform urban mobility. Our team is a dynamic and rapidly expanding group of innovators, engineers, and business leaders dedicated to building the future of transportation. We are seeking a talented Growth Engineer to join our Tesla Robotaxi Vehicle Software Team. This pivotal role will focus on driving user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization for the Robotaxi service through innovative, data-driven strategies and technical solutions. At Tesla Robotaxi, we’re not just building autonomous vehicles; we’re redefining how people experience transportation and scaling a groundbreaking service to millions. As a member of the Vehicle Software Robotaxi Team, you will play a critical role in shaping our expansion...

The Tesla Sensing Software Team is looking for a sensing software engineer with expertise in state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. The person in this role will need to be familiar with and has prior experience of machine learning and deep learning algorithms, proficient with programming and software engineering fundamentals, and work with hardware engineers and firmware engineers to develop efficient, and tightly integrated features. The candidate is also expected to be able to learn and adapt quickly to the fast-paced environment, get hands dirty in the lab or in the car for data collection and analysis, algorithm validation when needed to, and use it to root cause issues, and propose solutions. The Role Development of new computer vision algorithms for sensing applications Write python and C++ code to develop algorithms, analyze data and generate visualizations Work with hardware engineers and firmware engineers to develop efficient, and tightly integrated...

As an Autonomy Camera Software Engineer, you will work at the intersection of embedded systems, computer vision, and AI to drive the development of Tesla’s imaging pipeline. Your primary focus will be to optimize camera software and overall system performance to deliver world-class image quality, critical for both neural network perception and human-facing displays. In this highly collaborative role, you’ll partner closely with hardware, computer vision, UI/UX, and system software teams to ensure Tesla’s camera systems provide the most accurate and useful representation of the world. Your code will interface directly with image sensors, ISPs (Image Signal Processors), codecs, telemetry systems, and AI models, all executing on the Tesla AI compute platform. You’ll play a key role in developing and refining software that enhances image quality and system efficiency. This includes building tools to benchmark and characterize 3A (auto-exposure, auto-white balance, autofocus) and...

We're seeking a system software engineer to join our AI Platforms team, working on system software that powers our autonomous vehicle (Autopilot) and humanoid robot platforms. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy mission-critical software that manages complex sensor systems and real-time processing. You will get to work on one of the most advanced and widely deployed AI platforms and ship software that improves the driving experience for millions of customers. The Role Design and implement system software for sensors including GPS and IMU Develop and maintain Linux kernel modules and real-time embedded software Create robust system software architectures that handle inter-process communication between compute nodes Build telemetry and monitoring solutions for platform health and performance Drive technical requirements for next-generation autonomous systems Collaborate with hardware teams on bring-up...

As a Software Engineer within the Supercomputing AI Infrastructure team, you will work on scaling and optimizing our training compute clusters at the core of Robotaxi and the Optimus development. Tesla Supercomputing maintains, on premise, some of the largest supercomputers in the world. We’re currently scaling 100K+ GPU clusters, which are central to developing our autonomy capabilities. Robustly managing such a large system of AI training and HPC clusters requires software design through the stack: from the operating system to workload scheduling to ultimately the training loop. We are building and improving the workload scheduling systems that govern how hundreds of thousands of GPUs are allocated across training jobs, experiments, and data pipelines. In this role, you will own the Slurm-based scheduler at the heart of our AI HPC compute infrastructure, ensuring that cluster resources are utilized efficiently and that engineers can iterate quickly without friction The Role...

As a Software Engineer on Tesla AI’s RL Infrastructure team, you will build the systems that make large-scale reinforcement learning fast, stable, and flexible for ML engineers working on real-world AI problems. Your work on RL training will be critical for scaling Robotaxi and Optimus. We're looking for someone with practical experience in GPU inference performance, RL training infrastructure, or both. Your work will directly impact iteration speed, training throughput, system reliability, and the ability of ML engineers to move from prototype to large-scale experiments quickly. The Role Build infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning Improve performance and scalability of RL workloads Optimize training and inference latency, throughput, memory usage, and hardware utilization Develop tools for benchmarking, profiling, debugging, and monitoring Work closely with ML engineers to productionize new methods and workflows Debug bottlenecks...