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Director, Engineering
Folsom or Hillsboro or Santa Clara or Phoenix or United States
$221k-$361k/yr HybridFull Time
Intel
IntelNasdaq: INTC: Designs and manufactures microprocessors and semiconductor components.
15+ YOEBachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering and 15+ years of industry experience; 18+ years of semiconductor design experience, physical design leadership, advanced-node implementation, and global team management.
Intel 18A, Intel 14A, AI
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Director, ML Engineering
San Jose or Seattle or San Francisco
$206k-$385k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Adobe
AdobeNASDAQ: ADBE: Provides software for digital media creation and marketing analytics
10+ YOE5+ MgmtSenior ML engineering leader; 10+ years in applied ML; 5+ years leading engineering teams; experience shipping generative AI at enterprise scale.
CUDA, NCCL, GPU stack, inference pipelines, data pipelines
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Director, Optical Engineering
Santa Clara, California, United States
$210k-$289k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Applied Materials
Applied MaterialsNASDAQ: AMAT: Manufacturers of equipment for semiconductor and display production.
20+ YOE8+ MgmtRequires 20+ years in optical design engineering, including 8+ years leading engineering teams, with expertise in high-performance semiconductor optical systems, design cycles, suppliers, alignment, tooling, and system integration.
optical systems
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Director, Optical Engineering
Santa Clara, California, United States
$210k-$289k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Applied Materials
Applied MaterialsNASDAQ: AMAT: Produces equipment and services for chip and display manufacturing.
20+ YOE8+ Mgmt20+ years in optical design engineering for semiconductor optical systems, including 8+ years leading engineering teams; expertise in optical design, system integration, alignment, tooling, error budgets, and product development.
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Engineering Director, Foundation Services
Santa Clara, California, United States
$210k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Netskope
NetskopeNASDAQ: NTSK: Cloud-native cybersecurity and data protection platform for enterprises.
15+ YOE5+ Mgmt15+ years software engineering with 5+ years managing managers; expert in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data synchronization, Kubernetes; AI-first leadership; BS required, MS preferred.
Kubernetes
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Director of Engineering
San Jose, California, United States
$210k-$303k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Altera
Altera: Manufacturer of field-programmable gate arrays and programmable logic devices.
12+ YOE6+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/CE/EE required, 12+ years technical experience, 6+ years engineering leadership, FPGA and software IP expertise, experience with platforms, CI/CD, Quartus; U.S. export authorization eligibility required.
Quartus, CI/CD, SDKs, Agile
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Sr Director, Engineering
San Jose, California, United States
$319k-$478k/yr HybridFull Time
F5
F5NASDAQ: FFIV: Provides application delivery networking and multi-cloud security solutions.
10+ YOE10+ Mgmt10+ years leading engineering teams; required hands-on experience operating and scaling cloud services; experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, distributed systems, AI traffic, security, reliability, metrics, and global teams.
AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD, DevOps, Agile
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Sr Director, Operations Engineering
San Jose, California, United States
$225k-$309k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Flex
FlexNASDAQ: FLEX: Contract electronics manufacturing and supply chain management services.
15+ YOE10+ Mgmt15+ years progressive engineering leadership in manufacturing, 10+ years leading global/multi-site engineering, Bachelor’s in engineering required (Master's/MBA preferred), experience in manufacturing engineering, automation, NPI, and transformation initiatives.
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Director of Engineering -Exchange
Seattle or San Jose
$175k-$260k/yr HybridFull Time
Extreme Networks
Extreme NetworksNASDAQ: EXTR: Provides cloud-managed networking hardware and software solutions.
15+ YOE5+ Mgmt15+ years software engineering experience with 10+ years engineering leadership and 5+ years managing managers; experience building scalable, secure cloud-native AI/platform services; strong communication and distributed systems expertise.
Model Context Protocol (MCP), Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, AWS, Azure, GCP, SQL, NoSQL, vector databases, graph databases
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Senior Director, Reliability Engineering
Santa Clara, California, United States
$332k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence hardware.
18+ YOE10+ Mgmt18+ years in board and system reliability, 5+ years on data center equipment, 10+ years leading reliability management; deep reliability and physics-of-failure expertise; statistics and reliability modeling skills; bachelor’s in engineering or related (graduate preferred).
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Director of Engineering - AI Control Tower
Santa Clara, California, United States
$221k-$387k/yr HybridFull Time
ServiceNow
ServiceNowNYSE: NOW: Provides a cloud platform for automating enterprise digital workflows.
10+ YOE4+ Mgmt10+ years software engineering with 4+ years leading engineering teams; startup product experience; cloud-native SaaS, API, data modeling, and AI-native engineering expertise.
REST, gRPC, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, OpenAPI, MCP
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Director of Engineering, PrivacyOps Platform
San Jose or Seattle
$366k-$680k/yr HybridFull Time
Veeam
Veeam: Data resilience and security for hybrid cloud environments
Requires Go or Python, distributed systems, microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, Kafka or RabbitMQ, SDK or integration platform leadership, AI-assisted development, engineering team management, and privacy regulations expertise.
Go, Python, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, REST, GraphQL
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Senior Director, Design Engineering 1
San Jose, California, United States
$208k-$367k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Celestica
CelesticaNYSE: CLS: Provides design, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions for electronics.
15+ YOE15+ years in product architecture and engineering; expert software and hardware knowledge; customer engagement and leadership; hands-on with C/C++, Python, Linux kernel, platform drivers, open source, and networking chipsets; bachelor\u0002s degree or equivalent.
C/C++, Python, Linux kernel, Platform drivers, Open source development, Networking switching chipsets, AI/ML, GenAI
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Director of Product Engineering
San Jose, California, United States
$187k-$260k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Astera Labs
Astera LabsNASDAQ: ALAB: Designs connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure.
8+ YOE5+ Mgmt8+ years post-silicon product development experience with high-speed signaling, 5+ years managing product engineering teams, Bachelor\u0002s in EE/CE required (Master's preferred), hands-on Advantest 93K ATE experience, strong data analysis skills (JMP/Spotfire).
Advantest 93K, JMP, Spotfire, C, C++, Python
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Director, Software Engineering, MONARCH
Santa Clara, California, United States
$189k-$325k/yr HybridFull Time
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & JohnsonNYSE: JNJ: Develops and manufactures pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/CE or equivalent,10+ years software experience,5+ years people management,medical device development experience,knowledge of IEC 62304,ability to recruit and influence,up to 10% travel.
IEC 62304
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Director, Software Engineering, MONARCH
Santa Clara, California, United States
$189k-$325k/yr HybridFull Time
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & JohnsonNYSE: JNJ: Provides pharmaceutical products and medical technology healthcare solutions.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/CE or equivalent,10+ years software development,5+ years people/technical leadership,medical device product experience,IEC 62304 proficiency,strong communication and matrix collaboration skills.
IEC 62304
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Senior Director, Network Engineering
Seattle or Santa Clara or United States
$194k-$414k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Oracle
OracleNYSE: ORCL: Provides cloud infrastructure and enterprise software for global businesses.
10+ YOEBachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent, 10+ years technical and leadership experience in networking, expertise in network design, fabrics, automation, telemetry, optical transport and vendor management; strong communication and strategic planning skills.
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Senior Director, Reliability Engineering
Santa Clara, California, United States
$332k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
18+ YOE10+ Mgmt18+ years in board/system reliability with 5+ years on data center equipment and 10+ years leading reliability; deep reliability, testing, modeling, statistics, and physics-of-failure expertise.
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Director of Engineering
San Jose or Stockton or Rancho Cordova or Wheeling or Hudson or Durham or Wallingford
$167k-$208k/yr HybridFull Time
Vantedge Medical
Vantedge Medical: Manufacturer of precision metal components for medical device OEMs.
12+ YOE5+ Mgmt12+ years in precision manufacturing engineering with 5+ years managing engineering managers; bachelor’s in engineering or technical field; NPI, CNC/EDM, ISO 9001/13485 knowledge; strong leadership and communication.
CNC, EDM, GD&T
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Director, Software Engineering (Cortex Platform)
Santa Clara, California, United States
$232k-$321k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto NetworksNASDAQ: PANW: Provides enterprise-grade network, cloud, and endpoint security software.
15+ YOE7+ Mgmt15+ years software engineering experience with 7+ years leading large distributed engineering organizations; experience architecting high-scale cloud SaaS platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), distributed databases, microservices, and production reliability; strong leadership and customer-first orientation.
AWS, GCP, Azure, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redis, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Pub/Sub, LLM
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