Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Develops and scales technical solutions, APIs, SDKs, and partner-facing tools for complex integrations. Collaborates with Product, Engineering, and Sales to deliver partner solutions, troubleshoot technical issues, optimize performance, and support launch strategies. Uses product usage metrics to identify insights and improve adoption. Requires programming proficiency, experience with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations, strong debugging and analytical skills, and at least two years of software development experience or an equivalent advanced-degree pathway.

Lead technical strategy and hands-on development for Snap’s storage, caching, identity, and service infrastructure. Design and operate highly available distributed systems across AWS and GCP, drive multi-quarter initiatives, improve reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, observability, and developer experience, and influence architecture across infrastructure and product teams. Mentor engineers, resolve complex technical challenges, and shape responsible AI applications for platform quality and engineering productivity.

Designs and develops integrated RF and wireless systems for Spectacles hardware. Responsibilities include creating schematics, overseeing PCB and flex layouts, developing prototypes, executing RF validation, debugging baseband and RF circuits, selecting components and chipsets, and documenting designs. The role collaborates with mechanical, software, industrial design, and supplier teams, and requires expertise in RF analysis, wireless standards, high-speed digital interfaces, simulation tools, and RF test equipment.

Design, develop, and support AR engine and Lens Studio features for Snapchat and Specs. Build agentic development workflows and tooling, contribute to architecture and technical roadmaps, participate in reviews, and collaborate cross-functionally. Improve code quality, reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and developer productivity while integrating AI-assisted and agentic capabilities into software systems.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and operation of Snap’s omnichannel notification platform. Design scalable, highly available backend services, shared APIs, data models, orchestration, ranking, targeting, experimentation, and measurement systems. Drive cross-functional initiatives, improve reliability and observability, respond to incidents, develop technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across teams.

Owns end-to-end quality for Snap’s Direct Revenue experiences, including test strategy, mobile automation, compatibility, accessibility, privacy, compliance, localization, defect diagnosis, release readiness, and quality sign-off. The role partners across teams to manage integration risks, reviews code and tests, participates in on-call rotations, and uses AI responsibly to improve engineering efficiency. Candidates need mobile testing expertise, object-oriented programming skills, agile SDLC experience, and proficiency with standard quality engineering tools.

Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers to define strategy, roadmap, and measurable goals. Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Operations, and executives to deliver scalable, high-availability services. Make technical tradeoffs, hire and retain talent, apply AI tools responsibly, and ensure code correctness, security, and production quality while executing large, complex initiatives.

Perform SI and PI simulations, define PDN impedance masks, review PCB/flex layouts, debug hardware (desense, ESD/EMI, power states), validate board and system designs, author test documentation, build prototypes, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver low-power consumer electronics (Spectacles).

Design and run human-subject studies and develop measurement systems to evaluate comfort, fit, wearability, and UX of AR devices. Build and instrument prototypes, integrate sensors, analyze biomechanical and anthropometric data, and translate findings into engineering requirements and product improvements while supporting rapid hardware iteration.

Build and ship high-quality messaging features for Snapchat iOS. Improve reliability, latency, and performance of chat and media delivery. Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams, instrument and A/B test features, and maintain code quality, testing, and observability for a large-scale iOS codebase.