125 lead data engineer jobs at 47 companies in Salinas, CA

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Founding Machine Learning / AI Search Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$310k/yr On-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe
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.
Python, PyTorch, Elasticsearch, LLMs
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Data Engineering Lead
San Jose, California, United States
$170k-$450k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Hark
Hark: An AI focused on next-generation multimodal intelligence and hardware-enabled interfaces.
5+ YOELead data engineering for scalable multi-modal pipelines; 5+ years in data engineering; strong infra experience with Spark/Beam/Flink; collaborate with researchers and engineers.
Spark, Beam, Flink, DVC, Delta Lake, Iceberg
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Senior Staff Data Engineer
San Jose or Draper
$166k-$245k/yr HybridFull Time
BILL
BILLNYSE: BILL: Automated financial operations software for small and midsize businesses.
8+ YOELead architecture and delivery of data platform capabilities (ingest, lake, streaming, feature store, query, graph, search). Requires distributed systems, streaming and batch experience, SQL and Python, and technical leadership.
Starburst, Databricks Feature Store, Neo4j, OpenSearch, Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Airflow, dbt, Spark, Glue, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Trino, Presto, Python, SQL
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Lead Design Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
$115k-$213k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design SystemsNASDAQ: CDNS: Develops computational software and hardware for electronic system design.
4+ YOELead DDR validation, testing, data analysis, and cross-team collaboration; 4+ years (M.Tech) or 6+ years (B.Tech) in relevant field.
Python, JIRA, DDR5, LPDDR5, HBM4, GDDR7, DDR interfaces
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Lead, Data Quality - Partnerships
San Jose, California, United States
$100k-$160k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Figure
Figure: Develops autonomous humanoid robots for commercial and residential tasks.
6+ YOE6+ years in data quality or vendor management, experience selecting/contracting/managing external data vendors, negotiating commercial terms, setting SLAs and calibration/audit processes, and partnering with engineering/ML stakeholders.
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Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Finance Digital Transformation
Austin or Cupertino
OnsiteFull Time
Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
7+ YOESeven+ years in data-driven ML, with leadership, data pipelines, and MLOps experience.
Python, SQL, Big Data, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, MLOps
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Lead Data Architect (Google spanner)
San Jose, California, United States
$120k-$130k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy ServicesNational Stock Exchange of India: TCS: Global provider of IT services, consulting, and business solutions.
10+ YOE10+ years designing large-scale distributed data architectures with deep expertise in Google Spanner, distributed transactions, consistency models, and OLTP multi‑region systems.
Google Spanner, TrueTime, Oracle
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Lead Software Engineer - (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Santa Clara, California, United States
$170k-$227k/yr HybridFull Time
Eightfold.ai
Eightfold.ai: AI-native platform for talent management and workforce optimization.
7+ YOE7+ years engineering experience, strong backend skills (Java, Python, Scala), distributed systems, enterprise escalations, system design, APIs and data pipelines, frontend experience (React, Angular), cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), mentoring skills.
Java, Python, Scala, React, Angular, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Principal Product Engineer - AI Cloud & Data Center; Platform Transformation Lead
Santa Clara, California, United States
$137k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Marvell
MarvellNASDAQ: MRVL: Designs and develops high-performance semiconductor and infrastructure solutions.
10+ YOETechnical leadership in productization and system-level test for semiconductor products; expertise with SLT, ATE/wafer sort/test tier architecture, yield analysis, root cause analysis, and data-driven decision making.
ATE, 93K, JMP, SiliconDash
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Process Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$124k-$171k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Applied Materials
Applied MaterialsNASDAQ: AMAT: Produces equipment and services for chip and display manufacturing.
Design and execute process engineering experiments, characterize hardware, analyze data, generate technical documentation, lead projects, train engineers, and interact with customers and vendors.
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Senior Manager, Content Promotion & Distribution Data Engineering
Los Angeles or Los Gatos
$525k-$950k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Netflix
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Provider of global streaming entertainment and video content.
7+ Mgmt7+ years leading data engineering teams; expertise in data modeling, batch/streaming pipelines, data quality, and multi-modal media pipelines for ML/GenAI; strong stakeholder communication and people management.
S3, Spark
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Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer - TikTok-Data-Search-NLP
San Jose, California, United States
$245k-$450k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TikTok
TikTok: Global short-form video hosting and social media platform.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, strong coding and algorithms skills, effective communicator, experience in NLP/ranking/recommender/distributed systems preferred.
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Sr. Director, Data Science & Analytics
San Francisco or Seattle or San Jose
$182k-$397k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Adobe
AdobeNASDAQ: ADBE: Provides software for digital media creation and marketing analytics
8+ YOELead data science and analytics organization; eight+ years in analytics with product/engineering collaboration; leadership experience; strong communication and strategic impact.
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Process Engineer IV
Santa Clara, California, United States
$147k-$203k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Applied Materials
Applied MaterialsNASDAQ: AMAT: Manufacturers of equipment for semiconductor and display production.
7+ YOEBachelor's degree in a related field, 7+ years of process engineering experience, expertise in data collection/analysis, hardware characterization, documentation, complex problem solving, and ability to lead and train engineers.
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Senior Staff Product Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
$159k-$229k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Power Integrations
Power IntegrationsNASDAQ: POWI: Produces high-voltage integrated circuits for efficient power conversion.
12+ YOELead in product development; analyze data for yield and qualification; mentor team; strong background in analog/CMOS/GaN packaging.
GaN, LDMOS, Analog circuitry, Failure analysis, Data analysis, Matlab, Jira, Confluence, AI tools
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Office/Field Engineer Tunneling
San Jose or Long Beach or Evansville or Alexandria
OnsiteFull Time
Traylor Bros., Inc.
Traylor Bros., Inc.: Heavy civil contractor specializing in complex infrastructure construction projects.
2+ YOEBachelor's in engineering, 2-8 years field/office engineering experience, proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel and AutoCAD, ability to analyze survey data, estimate materials/costs, inspect sites, communicate clearly, and lead teams.
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD
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Senior Manager, Content Promotion & Distribution Data Engineering
Los Angeles or Los Gatos or United States
$525k-$950k/yr HybridFull Time
Netflix
NetflixNASDAQ: NFLX: Global video streaming and media production service.
7+ YOE7+ MgmtLead data engineering teams; build multi‑modal data foundations for analytics and ML; partner with cross‑functional teams.
Spark, Distributed processing, Data warehouses, ETL/ELT, ML pipelines, S3-compatible storage, Workflow orchestration
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Senior Lead Software Engineer (Golang + EKS, Kubernetes, LLM's + Agentic flows + control/data planes)
San Francisco or McLean or San Jose or New York
$230k-$286k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Capital One
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Financial services offering credit cards, banking, and loans.
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering; 1+ year cloud experience; Bachelor's degree.
Go, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, JavaScript, Java, HTML/CSS, TypeScript, SQL, Python, RDBMS, NoSQL
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Staff Engineer, Product Engineering (Mfg.)
San Jose, California, United States
$130k-$188k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Analog Devices
Analog DevicesNASDAQ: ADI: Designs and manufactures semiconductors for signal processing and power management.
Lead yield/quality/reliability initiatives; end-to-end root-cause investigations; characterize analysis methods; collaborate with cross-functional teams; mentor engineers; data-driven production decisions.
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Tech Lead - Data Infrastructure Site Reliability
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
ByteDance
ByteDance: Developing AI-driven content platforms and mobile applications.
5+ YOE5+ years SRE or software development experience; expertise in cloud-based systems, distributed systems, databases (SQL/NoSQL), Kubernetes, and strong communication skills.
SQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, Big Data
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Staff Connectivity Engineer
San Francisco or San Jose
$349k-$407k/yr HybridFull Time
Lambda
Lambda: Provides high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI development.
10+ YOE10+ years in data center cabling and connectivity architecture; expertise in fiber and copper systems; vendor and supply chain experience; ability to develop standards, SOPs, BOMs, and lead NPI; familiarity with industry standards and technical drawings.
AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam