Last updated: 2025-06-06

285 Network And Systems Engineering jobs in San Francisco.

Hiring now: Sr Protocol Engineer @ Caldera, Sr 5G Software Engineer @ Applied In, Principal Engineer @ Arkose Lab, Ground Software Engineer Intern @ Astranis, Researcher @ Succinct, Sr Soc Design And Integration Engineer @ Celestial , Infrastructure Engineer @ Figma, Cryptography Hardware Engineer @ Fabric, Cryptography Hardware Engineer @ Fabric Cry, Blockchain Engineer Product Designer @ Harmony. Explore more at at jobswithgpt.com

🔥 Skills

Python (22) C++ (14) distributed systems (12) cryptography (11) Rust (10) Go (9) collaboration (9) C/C++ (8) software engineering (7) Linux (7)

📍 Locations

San Francisco (28) Santa Clara (16) Palo Alto (8) Fremont (3) Sunnyvale (3) Cupertino (3) Mountain View (2) Burlingame (2) Menlo Park (2) San Mateo (1)

Caldera

Caldera enables dynamic, scalable blockchain experiences. Currently, dapps that are deployed to general-purpose blockchain compete with thousands of other appl…

Senior Protocol Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: blockchain, rollup, EVM, Solidity, Go, Rust, distributed systems, scalability, network upgrades, smart contracts
  • Experience: 4+ years of engineering experience, including at least 1 year with EVM-related protocols
  • Type: Full-time

Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is a vehicle software supplier that accelerates the adoption of safe and intelligent machines worldwide. Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition d…

Senior 5G Software Engineer

Mountain View

  • Skills: 5G, wireless communication, software development, 3GPP specifications, software integration, Universal Software Radio Peripheral, RF tuning, open-source software, Wireless IoT, network emulation tools
  • Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on wireless communication technologies
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $150,000 to $180,000 USD annually

Arkose Labs

The mission of Arkose Labs is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from online spam and abuse. Recognized by G2 as the 2023 Leader…

Principal Engineer

San Mateo

  • Skills: stream processing, cloud-native, distributed systems, Apache Flink, Go, web/HTTP protocols, DNS, TLS, SaaS, cybersecurity
  • Experience: 15+ years in software engineering (or 12+ with a Master’s degree)
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $250,000.00 - 290,000.00

Astranis

Astranis is focused on launching satellites into orbit and developing a proprietary software-defined radio payload. The company aims to connect people globally…

Ground Software Engineer — Intern

San Francisco

  • Skills: satellite, software-defined radio, Python, relational databases, Postgres, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, mission-critical software, US Citizenship
  • Experience: Currently pursuing a B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree
  • Type: Internship
  • Salary: $29.00 per hour

Succinct

Succinct's mission is to make zero knowledge proofs accessible to any developer, providing state of the art zkVM technology and a hosted infrastructure layer f…

Researcher

San Francisco

  • Skills: ZK proofs, blockchain scaling, crypto protocols, zkVM, proof-generation, written communication, research, interoperability, cryptography, technical writing
  • Experience: Deep understanding of crypto protocols and blockchain architecture, high-level understanding of ZK technology, excellent written communication skills, previous track record of writing on technical topics.
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Above-market salary and generous equity compensation

Celestial AI

Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric™ is the next-generation interconnect technology that delivers a tenfold increase in performance and energy efficiency compared t…

Senior SoC Design and Integration Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: SoC Design, ASIC implementation, high-speed interfaces, AXI interconnects, IP integration, RTL design, verification, physical design, debugging, Tcl/Python
  • Experience: 10+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC design, integration, and implementation.
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $185,000.00 - $225,000.00

Figma

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build bet…

Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, AWS, Network Security, DDoS Mitigation, Traffic Systems, Service Mesh, TypeScript, Go, Cloud Computing
  • Experience: 4+ years of experience building infrastructure components/services at scale in a cloud setting
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $149,000 - $350,000 USD

Fabric

Fabric believes hardware determines the boundaries of humanity's collective creativity and imagination. We are building hardware for the next generation of cry…

Cryptography Hardware Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: Cryptography, Hardware, Zero Knowledge Proofs, ZKP protocols, Framework Improvement, Customer Advisory, Programming Skills, Cryptocurrency, Cryptographic Products, LLVM
  • Experience: Deep knowledge of cryptography, programming skills, and experience working with cryptocurrency or cryptographic products and LLVM.

FABRIC CRYPTOGRAPHY

Fabric believes hardware determines the boundaries of humanity's collective creativity and imagination. We are building hardware for the next generation of cry…

Cryptography Hardware Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: cryptography, cryptographic computer, ZKP protocols, framework improvement, customer advisory, programming skills, LLVM, cryptocurrency, secure systems, private computation
  • Experience: Deep knowledge of cryptography, programming skills, experience with cryptocurrency or cryptographic products and LLVM

Harmony

Harmony is an open blockchain with data sharding and fast finality. Our platform is decentralized, scalable and secure to settle any transactions without trust…

Blockchain Engineer / Product Designer

Palo Alto

  • Skills: blockchain, data sharding, smart contracts, decentralized, community-driven, user experience, prototyping, debugging, product launch, metrics
  • Experience: Deep understanding of data structures and blockchain technology, experience in product design or engineering.
  • Type: Full-time

Litmus

Litmus is a growth-stage software company that is transforming the way companies harness the power of machine data to improve operations. Our software is enabl…

Senior Yocto and Linux Software Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: Yocto, Embedded Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, OTA updates, ARM Board Support Packages, Linux kernel, C/C++ programming, Security validation, System integration
  • Experience: 5+ years as a Linux software engineer, with a focus on embedded systems and Yocto.
  • Type: Full-time

Mux

Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming…

Video Software Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: API-based functionalities, video transcoding, video processing pipeline, encoding, scalable systems, high-availability, Go, C++, ffmpeg, HTTP Streaming formats
  • Experience: 3+ years of experience
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $188K-$240K

Neuralink

We are creating devices that enable a bi-directional interface with the brain. These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed, restore sight to th…

Infrastructure Team Member

Fremont

  • Skills: software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure, networking protocols, Linux systems, hybrid cloud, security fundamentals, IAC tools, cryptographic protocols, systems administration
  • Experience: Experience building hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure, software engineering skills, and system administration experience.
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $35/Hr USD

Luma

Building some of the biggest & fastest AI supercomputing clusters in the world.

High-Performance Computing Engineer

Palo Alto

  • Skills: High-Performance Computing, AI supercomputing, CPU, GPU, network devices, Linux kernel optimization, user-space code, system automation, monitoring systems, large-scale deployment

Pure Storage

We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. We celebrate those who think critically, like a chall…

Software Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: Software Engineering, C++, Java, Go, Systems Software, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Linux Kernel, Database Internals, Compiler Optimization
  • Experience: 5+ years experience using C++, Java, Go or related programming languages
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $145,000–$285,000

Renegade

Renegade is building an unstoppable network for the anonymous exchange of value, focused on a permissionless protocol to solve issues in decentralized exchange…

Cryptography Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: cryptography, ZKP, MPC, proofs, cryptographic primitives, SPDZ, Bulletproofs, ElGamal, low-latency execution, internal audits
  • Type: Full-time

Sei Labs

Sei Labs builds open sourced technology for the high-performance Sei Blockchain, the first parallelized EVM Layer 1 blockchain designed to scale with the indus…

Protocol Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: Protocol Engineer, Sei Blockchain, blockchain infrastructure, performance optimization, decentralized network, low-level systems design, scalable system, Web3, collaboration, innovation
  • Type: Full-time

xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motiv…

Network Software Engineer

Palo Alto

  • Skills: network management, software development, IaC best practices, scalable software, network protocols, automated frameworks, Python, Go, TCP/IP, BGP
  • Experience: Deep experience collaborating with network engineers and designing scalable and reliable software.
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $180,000 - $440,000 USD

XPeng Motors

XPeng Motors is one of China’s leading smart electric vehicle (“EV”) companies. We design, develop, manufacture and market smart EVs that are seamlessly integr…

Software Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: Software Development, C++/C programming, Multi-threading, RTOS, CPU/memory profiling, Debugging skills, Linux Kernel, Nvidia Orin, Networking protocols, Automotive industry
  • Experience: 5+ years of Software Development experience
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $179,400-$303,600

Pure Storage

Pure Storage is reshaping the data storage industry with innovative technology and a focused team culture.

Linux Kernel Developer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: Linux kernel, C/C++, Python, enterprise storage, I/O technologies, user space device drivers, performance optimization, CPU architecture, data storage systems, mainline kernel contribution
  • Experience: 5+ years development in Linux kernel/device drivers
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $167,000-246,000

Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 to create a circular supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy products, making them more sustainable and drivi…

System Software Engineer, New Products

San Francisco

  • Skills: Linux-based industrial PC, containerization technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, SIL and HIL test frameworks, CI/CD pipeline, AWS ECR, system diagnostics, networked device management, control algorithms
  • Experience: 7+ years of experience developing application software for hardware systems

Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Ap…

Production Engineer (University Grad)

Fremont

  • Skills: Production Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Analysis, Programming, Linux, Java, Python, Cross-Functional Communication, TCP/IP Networking, Internet Service Architectures
  • Experience: Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Type: Full Time
  • Salary: $117,000/year to $137,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Fabric

Fabric believes hardware determines the boundaries of humanity's collective creativity and imagination. We are building hardware for the next generation of cry…

Cryptography Hardware Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: cryptography, hardware, ZKP protocols, framework improvement, customer advisory, secure computation, programming skills, cryptocurrency, cryptographic products, LLVM
  • Experience: Deep knowledge of cryptography, programming skills, experience with cryptocurrency or cryptographic products, LLVM

Quadric

Quadric has created an innovative general purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) architecture. Quadric's co-optimized software and hardware is targeted to run …

Corporate Applications Engineer

Burlingame

  • Skills: technical customer support, Quadric product, reference implementations, SDK, technical leadership, algorithm optimization, HPC Hardware, Python, neural network frameworks, Docker containers
  • Experience: Minimum 3+ years experience working with customers/business development supporting SDKs

AppLovin

AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end software and AI solutions for …

Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Palo Alto

  • Skills: software engineering, distributed systems, scalable infrastructure, model delivery, C++, Python, Golang, data structures, algorithms, collaboration
  • Experience: 2-4 years
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $144,000 - $216,000 USD

Ripple

Ripple is building a world where value moves like information does today through crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and deve…

Senior Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: XRP Ledger, distributed systems, C++, blockchain technology, scalable systems, cloud architecture, engineering best practices, mentoring engineers, technical strategy, continuous improvements
  • Experience: At least 12+ years of experience in designing and developing complex distributed systems; at least 5+ years as an architect or key contributor in large scale projects.
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $248,800 — $311,000 USD

SonicWall

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and th…

Distinguished Hardware Engineer

Milpitas

  • Skills: hardware architecture, PCB design, Intel processors, AMD processors, ARM processors, MIPS processors, 802.3 Ethernet standards, wireless 802.11 standards, Signal Integrity, Test and manufacturability
  • Experience: Prior experience in designing products using Intel, AMD, ARM, and MIPS processors

Vercel

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under …

Software Engineer - CDN Security

San Francisco

  • Skills: Software Engineer, CDN Security, traffic patterns, Firewall, web security, denial of service, web servers, network protocols, Go, Lua
  • Experience: At least 3 years of relevant experience handling denial of service attacks
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $192,000-$275,000

xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

High-Performance Networking Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: NVIDIA RDMA, GPUDirect RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, Kubernetes, MPI, NCCL, low-latency, high-bandwidth, supercomputing
  • Experience: Hands-on experience with NVIDIA RDMA technologies in HPC or AI supercomputing environments.
  • Salary: $180,000 - $440,000 USD

SPX Technologies

SPX is a diversified, global supplier of infrastructure equipment with scalable growth platforms in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), detection…

Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

Fremont

  • Skills: Embedded Software, C/C++, Real-time Systems, Signal Processing, TCP Communication, GUI Design, Cross-Platform Programming, FPGA, Software QA, Database Programming
  • Experience: 6+ years of relevant work experience, Extensive experience in design, implementation and testing of complex real-time multithreaded/multitasking/multicore embedded server software.
  • Salary: $150,100 - $180,000

Synopsys

At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving…

Principal Engineer-Auto Routing

Sunnyvale

  • Skills: advanced packaging, auto-routing, EDA software development, physical design automation, programming skills, C++, Python, TCL, R&D projects, collaboration
  • Experience: 10+ years
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $180000-$270000

xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

Software Engineer

Palo Alto

  • Skills: distributed systems, Reinforcement Learning, LLM, software engineering, HPC clusters, high-performance, performance optimization, algorithm design, Python, C++

Cerulion

Cerulion was founded in 2024 by MIT PhDs to modernize robotics. Having grown tired of ROS and utterly abysmal quality of life for robot devs, we are making a b…

Founding Middleware Lead

Santa Clara

  • Skills: middleware, robotics, Rust, Python, C++, ROS, TCP/IP, UDP, communication protocols, software systems design
  • Experience: 3+ years
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $100K - $130K

Palo Alto Networks

Software Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: software engineering, product design, security disciplines, core systems, high performance, scalable systems, NGFW, software development cycle, functional specifications, process improvement

Intuitive Surgical

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, w…

Senior Software Engineer

Sunnyvale

  • Skills: Software Engineer, real-time applications, embedded systems, C++, Python, software development, telesurgery, agile, debugging, team collaboration
  • Experience: Minimum of 8 years of experience developing and supporting embedded systems (or 5 years with a PhD)
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Base Salary Range Region 1: $178,800 USD - $257,200 USD; Base Salary Range Region 2: $151,900 USD - $218,700 USD

xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motiv…

RDMA Engineer

Palo Alto

  • Skills: RDMA, NVIDIA GPUs, low-latency networking, high-bandwidth solutions, GPUDirect RDMA, Kubernetes, MPI, NCCL, Rust, C/C++
  • Experience: Hands-on experience with NVIDIA RDMA technologies in HPC or AI supercomputing environments.
  • Salary: $180,000 - $440,000 USD

Palo Alto Networks

Network Security Platform Hardware Engineer

Santa Clara

  • Skills: Network Security, Hardware Development, PCB Layout, High-speed Interfaces, Simulation, Design Optimization, Signal Integrity, Test Plans, Collaboration, Mentorship

Meter

Meter has spent the last decade vertically integrating the fragmented computer networking industry across hardware (power, routing, switches, security, wireles…

Research Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: data pipelines, training techniques, evaluation techniques, collaboration, debugging, optimizing systems, publishing techniques, network engineering, hardware integration, firmware
  • Experience: 3+ years in a related field
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Competitive Salary

Mill

Mill is all about answering a simple question: how can we prevent waste? Less waste can save time, money, energy, maybe even our planet. And there’s no better …

Senior Firmware Engineer

San Bruno

  • Skills: firmware, embedded systems, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, C programming, RTOS, GPIO, I2C, SPI, debugging
  • Experience: 5+ years in embedded systems development
  • Salary: $170k to $225k

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.

Network Engineer

Menlo Park

  • Skills: network automation, network performance, data analysis, device management, Linux/Unix operations, TCP/IP Networking, BGP, MPLS, network infrastructure, network security
  • Experience: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 2 years in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation. Requires 6 months of specified experience.
  • Type: Full Time
  • Salary: $214,032/year to $240,240/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Arc Institute

The Arc Institute is a new scientific institution that conducts curiosity-driven basic science and technology development to understand and treat complex human…

Infrastructure Engineer

Palo Alto

  • Skills: cloud infrastructure, system optimization, Linux administration, automation, security protocols, data transfer, GPU cluster, scripting languages, monitoring tools, collaboration
  • Experience: Extensive experience with distributed systems, including cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and/or HPC environments.
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $149,500-$184,000

Cloudflare

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites…

Network Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: network engineering, site reliability, automation, data center, Linux, BGP, Python, Go, configuration management, software development
  • Experience: 5+ years of relevant Network/Site Reliability Engineering experience
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $137,000 - $206,000

Discord

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video …

Audio & Video Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: Audio, Video, WebRTC, HLS, DASH, observability, monitoring, large scale systems, network protocols, complex technical challenges
  • Experience: 5+ years of experience working with video infrastructure
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $248,000 to $279,000

Etched.ai

Etched.ai is developing groundbreaking hardware that will power the next generation of artificial intelligence.

Senior Firmware Engineer

Cupertino

  • Skills: C++, Rust, Python, embedded systems, high-performance computing, distributed systems, computer architecture, operating systems, firmware design, AI technology
  • Experience: 8 years of experience in software development

Etched

Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. Our first product (Sohu) only supports transformers, but has an order of ma…

Inference Software Engineer

Cupertino

  • Skills: C++, Python, transformer models, inference serving, distributed systems, networking, parallel programming, Rust, GPU kernels, hardware accelerators
  • Experience: Experience with C++ and Python; Familiarity with transformer model architectures and inference serving stacks (vLLM, SGLang, etc.) or experience working in distributed inference/training environments.

d-Matrix

d-Matrix is focused on unleashing the potential of generative AI to power the transformation of technology, at the forefront of software and hardware innovatio…

Inference Runtime Systems - Software Engineer, Staff

Santa Clara

  • Skills: C++, distributed systems, high-performance computing, HPC, PyTorch, architecture, optimization, code quality, technical documentation, software design patterns
  • Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in software development with a focus on C++
  • Type: Full time
  • Salary: $142.5K – $230K

Matic

Matic is a consumer robotics product company focused on developing autonomous home robots to assist families with household chores. The company aims to innovat…

Embedded Linux Engineer

Mountain View

  • Skills: Embedded Linux, C/C++, Rust, device systems software, kernel development, feature feasibility, root cause analysis, system crashes, multi-threaded, communication protocols
  • Experience: >2 years of industry experience
  • Type: Full-time

Nexus

Nexus is building a world supercomputer by leveraging the latest advancements in cryptography, engineering, and science. Our team of experts is developing and …

Software Engineer - Prover Network

San Francisco

  • Skills: ZK proving network, distributed computing, cloud infrastructure, network protocols, peer-to-peer systems, Rust, Golang, performance optimization, security, decentralization
  • Experience: Experience with distributed computing, cloud infrastructure, or ZK proving systems.
  • Type: Full time

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the bounda…

Software Engineer, Networking

San Francisco

  • Skills: Software Engineer, Networking, C++, CUDA, collective communication, performance critical, distributed algorithms, network simulation, ML research, supercomputers
  • Type: Full time
  • Salary: $380K – $555K

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is on a mission to accelerate open and decentralized AI progress by enabling anyone to contribute compute, code or capital to train powerful, o…

Senior Protocol Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: Senior Protocol Engineer, decentralized AI, distributed systems, backend development, Rust, Python, smart contracts, cryptography, collaborative training, machine learning
  • Experience: Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable distributed systems
  • Type: Full time

Sesame

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With thi…

Embedded Engineer

San Francisco

  • Skills: Embedded systems, C/C++, Python, Firmware, Linux, Real-time computing, Bluetooth, IoT, Wearable electronics, Machine learning
  • Experience: 5+ years of experience
  • Type: Full-time
  • Salary: $175K – $280K

Astera Labs

Astera Labs is a global leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions that unlock the full potential of AI and cloud infrastructure.

Sr. Principal DSP Architect

Santa Clara

  • Skills: DSP architectures, algorithm development, digital communication, signal processing theory, DSP algorithms, C/C++, Matlab, Python, high-speed channels, error correction
  • Experience: 5-10 years
  • Salary: $160,000.00 - $260,000.00 USD

Ventana Micro Systems

Ventana Micro Systems is at the forefront of the two hottest trends that are revolutionizing the semiconductor industry: RISC-V and Chiplet Architecture. They …

Performance Benchmarking Engineer

Cupertino

  • Skills: performance benchmarking, C/C++, Python, performance tools, scripting, automation, Linux, GNU/LLVM, multi-core systems, cloud workloads
  • Experience: 8-12 years
  • Type: Hybrid Remote
  • Salary: $115,000 TO $225,000 per year