13 ai software developer jobs at 8 companies in Goleta, CA
🚀PromotedHiringCafe
Founding Machine Learning / AI Search Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$310k/yrOn-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Build the ML and AI search behind HiringCafe — ranking, recommenders, retrieval, and LLM agents that surface jobs people would never find on their own.
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Help us build a 100× better job search engine. We need a full-stack engineer with great taste, sharp fundamentals, and a track record of shipping polished product on React/Next.js plus a real backend (Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis, Stripe).
Toyon Research: Develops advanced technology and analysis for national defense systems.
2+ YOEU.S. citizenship and ability to obtain DoD clearance, advanced degree or BSc+2 years in engineering/computer science/physics/math, experience with Python or C++, and knowledge of AI/ML techniques.
Curri: On-demand last-mile delivery platform for construction and industrial supplies.
2+ YOE2+ years building production software; full‑stack experience (TypeScript/Node, React/React Native); familiarity with Postgres, NATS, Redis; active use of AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor); strong communication and systems awareness.
Curri: On-demand last-mile delivery platform for construction and industrial supplies.
6+ YOE6+ years building production software; full-stack experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Postgres, Redis, NATS, and React; daily use of AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor); strong systems thinking and cross-functional communication.
Alpha Design AI: AI-native EDA platform for semiconductor design and verification.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related, experience building full-stack software and ML workflows, familiarity with Python, PyTorch, LLMs, TypeScript/JavaScript, strong communication and customer-facing skills.
8+ YOE2+ MgmtBachelor's or equivalent, 8 years software development with distributed systems, 3 years technical leadership, 2 years people management, client-side development experience; GCP, Kubernetes, and gRPC experience preferred.
Google Cloud Platform, Compute Engine, Cloud Spanner, Kubernetes, Google Distributed Cloud, gRPC
Oakland or San Francisco or New York City or Boston or Seattle or Irvine or Los Angeles or Monterey or Santa Barbara or Santa Rosa or Austin or Portland or Philadelphia or Chicago or United States
$146k-$235k/yrOnsiteFull Time
LaunchDarkly: Provides a feature management platform for software development teams.
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience building/operating production distributed systems; strong programming in Go/Java/Rust; production debugging, observability, on-call experience; clear AI usage in engineering work.
United States or Oakland or San Francisco or New York City or Boston or Seattle or Irvine or Los Angeles or Monterey or Santa Barbara or Santa Rosa or Austin or Portland or Philadelphia or Chicago
$146k-$235k/yrRemoteFull Time
LaunchDarkly: Provides a feature management platform for software development teams.
5+ YOE5+ years full-stack engineering; strong TypeScript and React; experience with Go or Node; shipped AI/agent features and MCP/LLM tooling; instrumentation, funnel analysis, A/B testing, and on-call support experience.
Santa Barbara or San Diego or San Francisco or Denver or Dallas or Atlanta or Chicago or Washington, D.C.
HybridFull Time
AppFolioNASDAQ: APPF: Provides cloud-based property and investment management software.
Proven experience building production ML systems at scale, architectural leadership, training/fine-tuning LLMs, experience with LangChain/LangGraph and RAG patterns, AI safety/authorization, and production reliability discipline.
10+ YOEPhD or equivalent in relevant field, 10+ years quantum computing research, publications in quantum error correction; experience with experiments and simulation software preferred.