50+ Staff Engineer Jobs in California

64 open Staff Engineer roles from 43 employers in California, posted in the last 21 days. Updated September 18, 2026.

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Newest Staff Engineer openings in California

  1. Staff Engineer, Verification Automation Werfen · San Diego, California, United States
    $150K to $185K a year
    Posted yesterday
  2. Sr. Staff/Principal Engineer - Low Power Chip Architect / System Engineer QUALCOMM, Inc. · San Diego, California, United States
    $200K to $300K a year
    Posted yesterday
  3. Staff Engineer, Power and Thermal Management (San Diego, CA OR Boulder, CO) QUALCOMM, Inc. · San Diego, California, United States
    $141K to $212K a year
    Posted yesterday
  4. Staff Engineer, Systems Integration Abbott Laboratorios do Brasil Ltda. · La Jolla, California, United States
    $99K to $199K a year
    Posted yesterday
  5. Staff Engineer, SRAM Circuit Design Samsung Electronics Co. · San Jose, California, United States
    $163K to $253K a year
    Posted 2 days ago
  6. Sr. Staff Engineer – Processor Verification and Compiler Validation Enphase Energy, Inc. · Fremont, California, United States
    $135K to $205K a year
    Posted 2 days ago
  7. Staff Engineer – Processor Verification and Compiler Validation Enphase Energy, Inc. · Fremont, California, United States
    $120K to $184K a year
    Posted 2 days ago
  8. Staff Engineer, Systems Integration IE · San Diego, California, United States
    $99K to $199K a year
    Posted 2 days ago
  9. Staff Engineer, AI Native Sony Electronics Inc. · San Diego, California, United States
    $200K to $240K a year
    Posted 2 days ago
  10. Sr Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI Social Finance Inc. · San Francisco, California, United States
    $173K to $297K a year
    Posted 2 days ago
  11. Staff Engineer, SSD Storage and Systems Architecture Samsung Electronics Co. · San Jose, California, United States
    $163K to $253K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  12. Staff Member - Staff Engineer Franklin Energy · Carlsbad, California, United States
    $100K to $140K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  13. Staff Engineer, Architecture & Performance Research Engineer for Data Center and Agentic AI CPU Samsung Electronics Co. · San Jose, California, United States
    $163K to $253K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  14. Staff Engineer, AI Platform Enablement and Emerging Applications Samsung Electronics Co. · San Jose, California, United States
    $163K to $253K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  15. Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Clerawindows · San Francisco, California, United States
    $160K to $250K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  16. Staff Engineer Clerawindows · San Francisco, California, United States
    $250K to $300K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  17. Staff Engineer Supermicro, Inc. · Long Beach, California, United States
    $170K to $195K a year
    Posted 3 days ago
  18. Staff Engineer, Production Planning and Scheduling Anduril Industries, Inc. · Santa Ana, California, United States
    $166K to $220K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  19. Staff Engineer or Architect (AI Agentic Team) Trulioo · San Diego, California, United States
    $185K to $215K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  20. Staff Engineer or Architect (AI Agentic Team) Trulioo · San Francisco, California, United States
    $185K to $215K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  21. Staff Engineer, Production Planning and Scheduling Hardware FYI · Santa Ana, California, United States
    $166K to $220K a year
    Posted 4 days ago
  22. San Jose Sr. Staff Engineer, Modeling Infrastructure and Software Development Ayar Labs, Inc. · San Jose, California, United States
    $170K to $223K a year
    Posted 5 days ago
  23. Core Staff Engineer (San Francisco) Verita Ai · San Francisco, California, United States
    $300K to $400K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  24. Senior Staff Engineer - Employee Productivity SheTO · Santa Clara, California, United States
    $200K to $322K a year
    Posted 6 days ago
  25. Staff Engineer, Desktop (Windows) Wispr Flow · San Francisco, California, United States
    $270K to $350K a year
    Posted 7 days ago
  26. Staff Engineer - DevSecOps Exelixis, Inc. · Alameda, California, United States
    $148K to $210K a year
    Posted 7 days ago
  27. Staff Engineer, Desktop (macOS) Wispr Flow · San Francisco, California, United States
    $270K to $350K a year
    Posted 7 days ago
  28. Staff Engineer - Embedded Firmware Development - CXL / PCIe / Near-memory accelerator / Memory-Expansion Controllers Marvell Technology · Santa Clara, California, United States
    $111K to $166K a year
    Posted 7 days ago
  29. Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Systems & Reliability - Moveworks ServiceNow · Mountain View, California, United States
    Posted 7 days ago
  30. Staff Engineer, Antenna RF Lucid Motors · Newark, California, United States
    $179K to $263K a year
    Posted 8 days ago

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What these postings look like

Across the 61 postings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $188,000 at the 25th percentile, $207,500 at the median and $234,900 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

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Who is hiring

  1. QUALCOMM, Inc.: 8 roles
  2. Samsung Electronics Co.: 6 roles
  3. Shield: 3 roles
  4. Clerawindows: 2 roles
  5. Enphase Energy, Inc.: 2 roles
  6. Lucid Motors: 2 roles
  7. Northrop Grumman: 2 roles
  8. Relativity Space, Inc.: 2 roles
  9. Trulioo: 2 roles
  10. Wispr Flow: 2 roles

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