Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Serves as technical authority and team leader for space-based interceptor tooling and mechanical ground support equipment. Responsibilities include requirements, CAD design, fabrication, qualification, vendor management, safety and regulatory compliance, configuration control, root-cause investigations, budgets, schedules, and production support. Leads tooling engineers, chairs design reviews, and presents to program leadership, MDA offices, and government stakeholders. Designs fixtures, lifting devices, launch equipment, transportation containers, weldments, and integration tooling while ensuring compliance with defense and aerospace standards.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, resilient distributed systems. Act as technical authority across teams, mentor engineers, drive architecture and CI/CD best practices, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and enhance observability while writing production-grade Java.

As a Senior Mechatronics Engineer, you will design, develop, and test robotic systems, implement controls engineering, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve automation solutions.

Lead technical direction, design, build, and operate Snap's large-scale service and compute infrastructure. Drive platform roadmaps, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and developer experience. Act as hands-on staff tech lead across cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape infrastructure for an AI-first future.

Responsible for designing and developing tools and factory automation equipment to support manufacturing, collaborating with various teams for efficient production of rockets.

Lead dynamic analysis efforts for rocket design, ensuring performance, reliability, and robustness while mentoring other analysts and improving tools.

Own PayBox end to end as a founding-style staff engineer, taking the AI payments product from problem definition through production and iteration. Build payment, peer-to-peer transfer, AI platform, application, and ecosystem integrations. Improve onboarding and UX, make pragmatic architectural decisions, collaborate with Product, and use AI tools while maintaining strong independent technical judgment.

Serve as the end-to-end Test Director for integrating, verifying, and flight testing Hivemind autonomy on small UAS. Own test readiness and execution, plan and run fly-fix-fly campaigns, set test strategy and success criteria, lead cross-functional teams, manage risk and safety-of-flight, define test infrastructure (SIL/HIL/simulation), approve procedures, document results, and report to leadership and customers.

Lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale React and React Native applications across web and mobile. Establish frontend standards for performance, accessibility, reliability, and maintainability; build shared component libraries and design systems; resolve complex frontend and cross-stack issues; partner with product, design, and backend teams; and mentor engineers while shaping technical strategy across multiple product areas.

Lead architecture and delivery of complex web and mobile product initiatives. Build React and React Native applications, scalable components, APIs, data models, and shared libraries. Establish engineering standards, improve testing, performance, security, and reliability, and optimize database queries. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and partner with leadership and stakeholders to shape the product roadmap. This is a fully remote role supporting veterinary clinic operations and supply-chain workflows.

Lead the design and implementation of core Temporal server features across distributed systems, workflow execution, scheduling, persistence, visibility, and performance. Set technical direction, make reliability and operability improvements, partner cross-functionally, review designs and code, mentor engineers, and support open-source usability. The role requires extensive experience building production distributed systems, strong technical leadership, backend programming expertise, and operational experience with high-scale systems.

Serve as the frontline technical expert for Temporal’s developer community. Help customers deploy, scale, troubleshoot, and optimize Temporal in cloud-native environments. Responsibilities include resolving distributed-systems and infrastructure issues, developing observability and automation solutions, improving networking and reliability, and creating infrastructure best practices and diagnostic tools. The role requires direct engagement with developers, engineering teams, and product teams while influencing platform improvements and enhancing developer experience.

Design and develop high-performance electrical, computing, sensing, communication, and power systems for fixed-wing aircraft. Lead and contribute to multiple product design cycles involving electrical, mechanical, logic, and software engineering. Ship reliable, high-quality products while navigating development challenges, meeting deadlines, and improving hardware development efficiency, quality, and aircraft reliability.

Design, analyze, integrate, test, and support mechanical systems for aerospace platforms across the full product lifecycle. Responsibilities include avionics packaging, harnessing, connector selection, structural design, CAD, engineering calculations, prototyping, production support, troubleshooting, and field operations. Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Program Management, and external suppliers to deliver reliable, buildable, and mission-ready hardware.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Designs and maintains secure, scalable backend services, microservices, APIs, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and observability platforms. Implements Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps controls, performs vulnerability management and incident troubleshooting, conducts architecture and security reviews, documents systems, collaborates across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and evaluates technologies to improve reliability and delivery.

Develop and implement RF desense solutions for Spectacles, ensuring system performance through testing and collaboration with various engineering teams.

As a Staff Optical Communications Engineer, you will design and deliver optical communications systems for deep space missions, leading prototyping and implementation efforts.

As a Staff Structures Engineer, you'll lead spacecraft structures design from concept to flight, ensuring performance and reliability while collaborating across teams.

The Staff Propulsion Test Responsible Engineer will lead test plans, execute campaigns, troubleshoot issues, and review data while supporting engine development and certification across teams.

The Staff Flight Software Engineer will design and develop flight-critical software for spacecraft, ensuring integration and operational success. Responsibilities include full lifecycle software development, collaboration with various teams, and support for testing and mission simulations.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for risk, fraud, scam prevention, money operations, reconciliations, and chargebacks. Build resilient, low-latency, event-driven financial systems with auditable ledgers, strong correctness, and high availability. Mentor engineers, establish technical direction, support production ownership, and collaborate with Product, Data/ML, Compliance, and engineering leaders. Apply AI-assisted tooling and deliver scalable, compliant services across global payment infrastructure.

Lead systems engineering for defense systems: develop and manage requirements in DOORS, decompose requirements into designs, direct verification & validation, lead Agile teams, present to customers, and provide technical leadership through testing, integration, and delivery.

Own technical strategy and architectural decisions across multiple engineering squads. Design scalable distributed systems, APIs, data models, and cloud-native platforms while building shared systems that improve delivery. Partner with product and engineering leadership, resolve ambiguous technical challenges, establish AI-assisted development practices, and mentor engineers through design reviews and cross-team collaboration. The role requires full-stack expertise and strong influence, communication, and technical leadership in a high-stakes B2B SaaS environment.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial services, routing and map-matching foundations, and reusable APIs. Scale storage, queries, and computation for real-time products, consolidate fragmented geospatial solutions, develop customer self-service capabilities, and provide mentorship through code reviews and design leadership. Collaborate across teams and represent Samsara in the mapping and geospatial community.