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Quantum Space
31 views 3 weeks ago

Software Systems Engineer III

Open 135d North AmericaFull-time 7 questions
United States
Rockville, MD or Hawthorne, CA

Leads spacecraft software architecture and systems engineering for next-gen Ranger spacecraft, defining interfaces, requirements, and mission operations while collaborating across flight software, autonomy, and GNC teams.

Itar Risk Assessment
160K – 200K $
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HappyRobot Backed by Y CombinatorBacked by a16z
16 views 3 weeks ago

IT Engineer - San Francisco

Open 16d HybridNorth America 6 questions
United States
San Francisco

IT Engineer in San Francisco who owns HappyRobot's internal technical operations: identity and access (Okta/Entra ID SSO, SCIM), device management via MDM (Jamf/Iru/Intune), Google Workspace/M365 administration, onboarding/offboarding, and automating repetitive IT work with scripts and workflow tools.

AI API Automation Bash DNS +16 skills
120K – 160K $
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felix Backed by Techstars
27 views 3 weeks ago

Engineering Manager

Open 16d HybridEurope
Italy
BRA

Leads an engineering squad building Félix's conversational ecosystem and user onboarding (WhatsApp-based flows for wallets, credit, and remittances), acting as a solution designer who turns product needs into scalable architecture while mentoring engineers. Stack is technology-agnostic, favoring React, Python/Flask/FastAPI, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Agentic AI AI AJAX API BigQuery +20 skills
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Gatik AI
30 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Perception

Open 141d North AmericaSenior No extra questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
Santa Clara, CA

Senior/Staff engineer building the multi-modal perception stack for Gatik's Level 4 autonomous middle-mile trucks — designing object detection, tracking, and sensor-fusion components, training and evaluating models, and building large-scale training/inference infrastructure. Core tech: modern C++, Python, OpenCV, CUDA/TensorRT, Docker/Kubernetes, TensorFlow/PyTorch, on-site in Santa Clara, CA.

AI Computer Vision C++ CUDA Deep Learning +10 skills
180K – 260K $
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Gatik AI
19 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Motion Planning

Open 141d North AmericaSenior 7 questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
Santa Clara, CA

Senior/staff engineer on Gatik's planning team building motion planning and decision-making systems for its Level 4 autonomous middle-mile trucks — designing lattice, sampling, and optimization-based planners in C++ and maturing them through simulation and on-road production deployment. Onsite 5 days/week in Santa Clara, CA.

AI C++ Express.js
180K – 260K $
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Gatik AI
34 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Localization

Open 141d North AmericaSenior No extra questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
Santa Clara, CA

Senior/staff engineer on Gatik's Localization team builds real-time localization for autonomous middle-mile trucks: designing sensor-fusion and odometry algorithms that combine IMU, GPS, and lidar data, developing SLAM for highway and urban routes, and tuning the stack for accuracy and real-time performance. Core stack: C++, Python, ROS/ROS2.

ADAS AI C++ Express.js LiDAR +6 skills
180K – 250K $
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Gatik AI
27 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, Controls

Open 141d North AmericaSenior No extra questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
Santa Clara, CA

Senior Software Engineer on Gatik's Controls team designing, implementing, and validating real-time control and optimization software for its Level 4 autonomous middle-mile trucks — including SiL/HiL prototyping, tuning, calibration, and in-vehicle testing. Core stack: C/C++, MATLAB/Simulink, MPC/Kalman filtering, ROS2, CAN, Linux. Onsite in Santa Clara, CA.

ADAS AI Bash CI/CD Containerization +9 skills
180K – 250K $
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Gatik AI
25 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer, C++

Open 141d North AmericaSenior No extra questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
Santa Clara, CA

Senior/Staff C++ engineer building the production platform behind Gatik's Level 4 autonomous trucking stack: turning research prototypes into reliable, real-time perception/autonomy software, optimizing latency, compute and memory on embedded systems, and mentoring researchers. Core tech: C++, CMake/Conan/Bazel, with ROS2 and PyTorch as pluses. Onsite in Santa Clara, CA.

AI Bazel CMake C++ DevOps +7 skills
180K – 260K $
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Polymarket Backed by Founders Fund
9 views 3 weeks ago

Senior Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance

Open 16d On-siteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior Salary + equity 3 questions
United States
New York

Lead the engineering team behind Polymarket's Trust & Safety systems for its CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange: KYC/onboarding, fraud and AML controls, market surveillance, and case-management tooling. Requires 8+ years in software engineering, 2+ years managing engineers, and experience with data-intensive detection systems in regulated environments.

Analytics Anomaly Detection Blockchain Machine Learning
350K – 500K $
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Swoop Technologies
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Engineering Manager

Open 119d HybridNorth AmericaFull-time 5 questions
United States
Minneapolis-St. Paul

Engineering Manager leading product engineering teams at Swoop, which builds SwoopOS — a distributed operating system turning real-world equipment into a platform for robotics, autonomous systems, and agentic AI (with the Valhalla SDK and Surf browser). The role focuses on mentoring, 1:1s, reviews, and staying hands-on with C, Rust, Python, embedded/kernel work, and Kubernetes in a hybrid Minneapo

Agentic AI AI Automation Cloud Distributed Systems +6 skills
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Inversion
20 views 3 weeks ago

Vehicle Software Engineer - Summer Internship 2027

Open 16d North AmericaInternshipIntern 7 questions
United States
Playa Vista, California

Summer 2027 internship at Inversion (Playa Vista, CA): own a well-scoped software project end-to-end supporting spacecraft flight software, ground systems, or test infrastructure — programming in C/C++/Rust/Python, integrating with hardware, and building SIL/HIL automated tests for reentry vehicles. Fully on-site; pays $38–41/hour.

Automation Ccpa CI/CD C++ Embedded Linux +15 skills
38 – 41 $ / hr
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Inversion
58 views 3 weeks ago

AI & Internal Tools Software Engineer - Summer Internship 2027

Open 16d North AmericaInternshipIntern 7 questions
United States
Playa Vista, California

Summer 2027 internship on Inversion's Internal Software Tools team in Playa Vista, CA: you'll own a full-stack project end to end, building internal apps, automation, and AI/LLM-enabled tools for the aerospace company's engineering and business teams. On-site role paying $38-$41/hour; stack includes React, TypeScript, Python, and Docker.

Agentic AI AI API Automation Ccpa +15 skills
38 – 41 $ / hr
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Mantle Backed by Y Combinator
27 views 3 weeks ago

Software Engineer, Mobile

Open 16d On-siteNorth America 2 questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
San Francisco

Founding-track mobile engineer who owns Mantle's consumer app end-to-end — onboarding, messaging with the AI agent, family dashboards, notifications, and mobile architecture through App Store release. Built with React Native or native Swift/Kotlin, working across the stack with React, Node.js, and AWS; in-office Mon–Thu in San Francisco with remote Fridays.

Accessibility AI Android API AWS +9 skills
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Aquatic Capital Management
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Software Engineer, Core Data

Open 16d On-siteNorth AmericaFull-time
United States
Chicago

Software engineer on Aquatic Capital Management's Core Data team, building and maintaining market data feed handlers (ITCH, GTP, PITCH) and quant-ready data archives for a quantitative trading firm. Day-to-day is hands-on C++/Python work supporting research and trading as the firm expands into new global markets.

C++ Dagster Data Pipelines Polars Python +1 skills
150K – 300K $
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Altana AI
8 views 3 weeks ago

Engineering Manager

Open 16d On-siteNorth AmericaFull-timeLead
United States
Brooklyn

Leads an engineering team at Altana building an AI-powered global trade platform — owning hiring, growth, planning, and delivery while staying hands-on with back-end/cloud code. Hybrid role based in Brooklyn, NY, treating LLMs, agents, evals, and retrieval as core building blocks.

AI Cloud LLM Performance Management
240K – 285K $
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Orenda
19 views 3 weeks ago

Business Systems Engineer

Open 140d On-siteNorth AmericaFull-timeLead 6 questions H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
United States
New York, New York

Serves as the technical owner of Orenda's internal business systems — designing a DER project source-of-truth database, owning Salesforce and construction management platforms, and leading an ERP implementation with a third-party firm. Day-to-day involves data modeling, integrations, and automation using Python, low-code tools, and AI.

AI API Automation Backbone.js ELT +6 skills
100K – 175K $
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Giga Backed by Y Combinator
36 views 3 weeks ago

Founding Engineering Manager

Open 17d On-siteNorth America
United States
New York

Founding engineering leader at Giga, a voice-AI startup building real-time AI agents for enterprise customer experience (DoorDash is a customer). The role hires and leads the Toronto site, drives platform architecture and technical strategy, and stays hands-on coding in Python (Django/FastAPI), TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, and Postgres.

Agentic AI AI Automation AWS Django +7 skills
210K – 400K $
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スマサテ株式会社
18 views 3 weeks ago

Lead Software Engineer / リードソフトウェアエンジニア

Open 50d APACLead
Japan
【オフィス】 東京都品川区上大崎3-3-1 自転車総合ビル 8F 【アクセス】 JR山手線目黒駅徒歩2分 東京メトロ南北線目黒駅徒歩1分

Lead Software Engineer at Sumasate, a Tokyo AI SaaS startup whose product computes optimal rents for rental properties from billions of real-estate records. The role strengthens in-house backend development of the AI rent-appraisal system (Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, AWS/GCP, MySQL, BigQuery), collaborates with external partners, and shapes product and dev-process direction. Hybrid: onsite Monda

API AWS BigQuery CI/CD CircleCI +16 skills
6M – 12M JPY
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Apex Technology, Inc.
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Software Engineer, Operating Systems

Open 17d North AmericaFull-time 3 questions
United States
Los Angeles

Design, develop, and own mission-critical operating-system software for Apex's satellite buses: building and maintaining embedded Linux platforms and bootloaders (Yocto, Buildroot, U-Boot, WolfBoot), firmware update mechanisms, and security enhancements, working alongside mission ops, GNC, and hardware teams in Los Angeles.

Apex C++ Embedded Linux Embedded Software Firmware +7 skills
130K – 185K $
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Apex Technology, Inc.
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Senior Software Engineer, Operating Systems

Open 17d On-siteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior 3 questions
United States
Los Angeles

Senior Operating Systems Engineer on Apex's Flight Software team builds the low-level software that drives spacecraft avionics: embedded Linux platforms (Yocto, Buildroot, U-Boot, WolfBoot), bootloader and firmware update mechanisms, and security enhancements. Requires 8+ years of OS-level coding (Python, C++, or Rust) and U.S. Person status for ITAR.

Apex C++ Embedded Linux Embedded Software Firmware +7 skills
185K – 250K $
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