Engineering Journal Jobs in Stanford, CA

The Company

A rapidly growing data consultancy founded in 2023 by a former venture-backed biotech VC data/technology leadership team in San Francisco. The firm has already delivered 20+ engagements across tech, healthcare/biotech, finance, energy, real estate, and startups - building complex data platforms, products, and AI-driven systems.

The Role

A hands-on, senior individual contributor role for engineers who still love coding. You'll work in small teams (often 1–3 engineers) to design and build production-grade data platforms, pipelines, and products across industries.

What You'll Work On

• High-impact, fixed-scope builds (e.g., enterprise data marts, complex migrations)
• End-to-end data platform deployments (ETL, warehouses, BI across AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Partnering with startups to build data-intensive products from 0 → 1

What We're Looking For

Hands-on builder

• Actively writing production code today
• Not removed into management or purely architectural roles

Infrastructure ownership

• Personally deployed and operated production systems
• Cloud, CI/CD, scaling, monitoring, reliability

End-to-end ownership

• Taken products from idea → launch → ongoing operation
• Comfortable operating autonomously with stakeholders

True seniority (well beyond 5 years)

• Targeting engineers with meaningful depth and ownership
• Strong preference for backgrounds in smaller, high-ownership environments
• Experience wearing multiple hats (application + infrastructure + deployment)

Why Join

• High autonomy and real technical ownership
• Variety of industries and problems
• Small, elite engineering team
• Opportunity to shape a fast-scaling consultancy

Location: San Francisco (5 days a week on-site)

Salary: $190k-$250k + 10-20% bonus + equity + sign on bonus

Benefits: Full Health, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Unlimited Time off, 401k matched.

About the Company

An early-stage AI research lab focused on interpretability, alignment, and reinforcement learning is hiring a Research Engineer. Founded by former frontier-model researchers, the team works directly on model internals and training dynamics to better understand how AI systems reason. The lab runs fast experimental research cycles, building custom tools to explore open-ended questions about model behavior.

About the Role

This role focuses on building the experimental tooling that enables interpretability research. You will develop systems that allow researchers to inspect, measure, and manipulate internal model representations. This is not a production ML or MLOps role — it's for engineers who enjoy building new experimental systems from scratch and working closely with researchers.

Responsibilities

• Build custom RL-style environments and experimental testbeds for interpretability research
• Develop tools for activation tracing and mechanistic interpretability
• Implement probes to detect latent concepts (e.g., deception, goals, uncertainty)
• Prototype activation-level steering methods beyond prompting or fine-tuning
• Collaborate with researchers to rapidly iterate on experiments and tooling

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python
• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX
• Experience working with deep learning models or LLMs
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build experimental ML systems

Preferred Skills

• Experience in mechanistic interpretability or alignment research
• Familiarity with reinforcement learning environments
• Background working with model internals, representations, or probing methods
• Research experience (PhD preferred but not required)

Pay range and compensation package

Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Job Description:

We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer with experience in designing liquid cooling systems for battery packs or data centers. The candidate should be able to work with SolidWorks or CATIA to create 3D models and drawings.

Responsibilities:

• Design liquid cooling components such as cold plates, manifolds, hoses, and enclosures
• Create 3D models and 2D drawings in SolidWorks or CATIA
• Work with the thermal and electrical teams to improve cooling performance
• Support prototype builds and testing
• Communicate with suppliers and support production readiness

Requirements:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Experience in liquid cooling design (battery cooling or data center cooling preferred)
• Hands-on experience with SolidWorks or CATIA
• Basic knowledge of heat transfer and fluid flow
• Good communication and teamwork skills

Senior Account Executive (San Francisco Bay-Area)

About the Role:

An innovative Data & AI technology business (Series B $50M+) is looking to hire a Senior Account Executive to drive enterprise growth across the West Coast. This role will focus on selling a category-defining data security, privacy and AI governance platform to senior security stakeholders, requiring a consultative, methodology-led approach to high growth markets.

The Company:

This fast-scaling technology company is redefining how organisations approach data defence, unifying security, privacy and AI governance into a single, forward-thinking platform. With strong product-market fit and ambitious growth plans, the business is building a commercial team to support enterprise expansion across key US markets.

Benefits & Opportunities:

• Join at a pivotal growth stage as a significant commercial hire, shaping the go-to-market strategy and long-term revenue engine.
• Sell a genuinely differentiated platform that is redefining the data security and privacy landscape.
• Work closely with leadership in a business that values grit, intelligence, curiosity and disciplined sales execution.

To Be Successful, You’ll Need:

• At least 5 years of field sales experience with a consistent track record of enterprise performance.
• Demonstrated experience selling into security, infrastructure, or observability environments within mid-size growth and enterprise companies.
• A consistent record of over achievement of quota in sales environments
• Formal sales methodology training (e.g. MEDDPIC, Command of the Message) and a highly consultative, process-driven approach.

Key Words:

Account Executive | Enterprise Sales | Data Security | Privacy Technology | AI Governance | MEDDPIC | Command of the Message | Observability | Infrastructure | CISO | Enterprise Software | Field Sales

The Sales Account Manager is to manage the businesses and customer relationships as well as developing plans for business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Executes and exceeds assigned BP targets sales revenue
• Understands the customers’ business, markets, end customers and their business strategy
• Develops short & long term forecasting of customer tape outs and customer volume demand
• Identifies risk relative to customer business and loading and develop risk mitigation plan
• Proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis
• Represents the company professionally and communicates appropriately
• Profiles and penetrates key decision makers and build knowledge and relationship with them
• Works and coordinates seamlessly with other departments in order to meet account performance objectives and customer needs
• Conducts market intelligence: provides facts, evaluates, validates interpret, assesses and communicates impacts to business strategy including updating and proposals to the management
• Manages alignment of customers’ forecast and the company’s capacity
• Represents the company’s solution and aligns customer needs
• Drives alignment of customers’ product roadmap and the company’s technology roadmap in order to grow foundry share
• Identifies and works towards common solution fit and successful engagement for new business opportunities within existing customers and potential new customers

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree or above major in relevant disciplines: Supply Chain Management/Electrical Engineering, Chemistry/Physics/Material Science
• Minimum 8 years of previous work experience in semiconductor industry of which min. 2 years of sales experience; foundry experience is highly desired
• Attention to detail, analytical with strong logical thinking
• Excellent customer orientation and excellent communication skills (writing and presentation)
• Capability to work together with cross-functional team to execute projects in a fast paced environment

General Summary

As a member of the Manufacturing Engineering group at Penumbra, you will be called upon to solve complex problems and implement innovative solutions. You will provide manufacturing technology and robust solutions aimed at commercializing new products and continuously improving production processes. Working cross-functionally with engineering groups across the company, as well as with Production, Quality Control and Quality Assurance, you will resolve problems encountered on the production floor and throughout the business, and will apply your engineering knowledge and creativity to implement adaptations and modifications to the production line and to quality systems.

What You'll Work On

•Solve complex problems and implement innovative solutions

•Execute detailed root cause analysis and recommend vetted solutions

•Communicate and explain problems and solutions cross-functionally and inter-departmentally

•Collaborate closely with suppliers, ensure timely communication of updates, and respectfully request any necessary changes.

•Manage NCRs, deviations, engineering change orders, and supplier documentation while utilizing a Quality Management System to ensure continuous improvement and compliance.

•Engage in the troubleshooting of electromechanical products by employing failure analysis and problem-solving techniques, while also recommending and implementing effective solutions.

•Lead the implementation of projects at the supplier level, managing communications related to test plans, monitoring project timelines, and ensuring all milestones are met efficiently.

•Approach problems from a detail-oriented perspective

•Suggest independent recommendations for project approach, scope, and tactics

•Support production needs

•Create and maintain product and process documentation

•Monitor process and equipment performance and identify and implement process improvement activities to increase/optimize yield

•Design fixtures, acquire off-the-shelf tooling and equipment, and implement new fixturing on the production line

•Test processes, equipment, raw materials, and product

•Perform process validations

•Author protocols to execute tests and write reports and make conclusions and/or recommendations based on test results

•Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering work as part of a project or as a total project

•Develop specifications of a product, process, or piece of equipment

•Develop, characterize, and optimize processes using statistical techniques and engineering knowledge and experience

•Coordinate with the appropriate suppliers and other external resources needed in developing and implementing process improvement plans

•Participate in project planning and scheduling

•Train assemblers, quality control and technicians, as necessary, on processes, equipment, and documentation

•Comply with quality system regulations, standards and procedures

* Indicates an essential function of the role

Location and Pay

•Alameda, CA

•$95,000 to $127,000

Position Qualifications

Minimum education and experience:

•Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Biomedical, Electrical, Chemical, Materials, or Industrial Engineering or related degree with 2+ years relevant engineering experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Additional qualifications:

•Engineering experience in a manufacturing environment recommended, medical device industry preferred

•Experience in troubleshooting and working with electromechanical devices

•Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills required

•Knowledge of FDA regulations, Lean/Flow Manufacturing, and/or materials and manufacturing processes desired

•Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other computer applications required

•Supplier audits, risk management (FMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA), lean manufacturing/six sigma, equipment qualification

Working Conditions

•General office, laboratory, and clean room environments.

•Willingness and ability to work on site.

•Business travel from 0% - 10%

•Potential exposure to blood-borne pathogens.

•Requires some lifting and moving of up to 25 pounds.

•Must be able to move between buildings and floors.

•Must be able to remain stationary and use a computer or other standard office equipment, such as a printer or copy machine, for an extensive period of time each day.

•Must be able to read, prepare emails, and produce documents and spreadsheets.

•Must be able to move within the office and access file cabinets or supplies, as needed.

Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a Component Engineer 3.

Job Description:

Job Title: Component Engineer 3

Job Type: Contract

Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Work Schedule: On-site

Pay Rate: $ 75, Based on experience

Description:

Primary Function of the Position:

Responsible for ensuring suppliers meet ISI requirements for quality, service, delivery, and cost. Drive suppliers to continuously improve business and manufacturing processes specifically related to wire harness and cable assembly Evaluate and select suppliers within copper cables/harness industry. Guide Engineering in choosing suppliers for new products and provide DFM input to new designs. Supports both NPI and on-going production, monitors and works with suppliers to improve supplier performance. Executes detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management.

Essential Job Duties:

• Work with NPD to procure custom cables ensuring DFM to achieve quality and cost targets
• Support NPD with proto builds and track material readiness at Supplier
• Drive supplier rootcause analysis for cable harness failures
• Mitigate risks and ensure supply continuity by evaluating capacity, lead times and quality issues
• Develop and maintain harness standards, specifications, and design guidelines.
• Work with Strategic sourcing to evaluate new suppliers and new supplier manufacturing sites
• Complete project/ part qualification deliverables including Supplier pFMEA, Process Validations (IQ/OQ/PQ), Inspection Reports, Gage R&R, and Process Capability Analysis
• Work with suppliers to execute cost reductions, capacity improvements, and risk mitigation.
• Select the right process and supplier for the part, considering long-term fit and total cost of ownership.
• Manage supplier changes including manufacturing process changes, production optimization, facility changes, new equipment qualification, and new line validations.
• Drive changes to ISI requirements as necessary by initiating and managing changes to specifications and drawings through the engineering change order process.
• Own and drive to closure supplier variances from symptom through root cause analysis to corrective action, including careful CAPA documentation.
• Effectively prioritize and advance multiple concurrent projects and tasks
• Clearly communicate project status to key stakeholders
• Build, own, and relentlessly pursue a vision for developing suppliers.
• Understand proper level of documentation detail for tracking of actions and justification of decisions.
• Generate key metrics for the team and suppliers, and continually drive for timely achievement of those metrics.
• Drive suppliers to continually improve their business and manufacturing process performance to meet Company's requirements for supplier excellence using a collection of best practices in project management, Six Sigma, Lean, SPC and negotiation. Lead these efforts without managerial guidance at several suppliers simultaneously.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions for supplier process by driving supplier’s investigations and root cause analysis.
• Provide effective and timely supply base health information and recommendation to management by creating and delivering data-driven supply base information to any level of management at ISI with little or no guidance.
• Prepare and deliver supplier communications as required by independently working with suppliers on scorecard creation.

Work with suppliers and ISI engineering for the new product introduction to:

• Create product supplier landscapes to determine launch readiness and report to management.
• Develop supplier ramp readiness plans by judging business risk based on forecast, supplier capacity, quality performance, and process capability.
• DFM by engaging suppliers early in development cycle to feedback manufacturability improvements in the designs prior to production.
• Influence and guide Engineering in choosing suppliers by determining selection criteria for preferred suppliers and leading the team effort to evaluate preferred suppliers.
• Review, analyze and close customer complaints, manufacturing variance requests, and first article inspections by judging risk analyses and justifications.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 3 years related experience with an BS Engineering degree or 1
• years’ experience with MS in Engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentations to executive level management.
• Excellent Interpersonal skills and team building skills.
• A proven history of implementing Lean/6 Sigma/SPC Programs at suppliers.
• Excellent Project Management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills along with good judgment.
• Demonstrable knowledge in evaluating and challenging supplier technical,
• quality, and business capabilities.
• Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing processes
• including understanding of key input variables for quality, cost, and capacity (specialization can be in cable assembly, wire cutting , termination, crimping, Soldering, overmold )

Working Conditions

• Ability to travel to suppliers on an as-needed basis – domestic and international.

Preferred Skills and Experience

1-3 years of engineering experience in cable assembly, wire harness production, or electromechanical manufacturing.

The ideal Candidate possesses broad and deep hands-on cable assembly experience along with wire cutting, stripping, crimping , soldering, connector termination ,overmold ,potting and heat shrink application. Familiarity with either IPC-WHMA-A-620, NASA-STD-8739.4, or IPC J- STD-01 or ISO 14572 Understanding of electrical schematics, wiring designs, and harness acceptance testing

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?

Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Manish Rajput ( / (4 for more details.

Technical Lead / Platform Engineer

GenAI Healthcare SaaS Platform

Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

About the Role

We’re building a next-generation generative AI platform purpose-built for healthcare — and we’re looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to help architect and scale it from the ground up.

This is not a “manage from a distance” role. You’ll be deeply involved in system design, writing production code, guiding engineering direction, and making foundational technical decisions that shape the future of the platform. You’ll work closely with leadership and product to turn complex healthcare AI requirements into scalable, reliable infrastructure.

If you’ve led engineering efforts for production-grade AI systems and enjoy building high-performance teams and platforms, we’d love to talk.

What You’ll Own

• Architect and evolve the core infrastructure for a scalable AI-powered SaaS platform
• Lead development of backend services and ensure clean integration across systems
• Write high-quality, maintainable code with long-term scalability in mind
• Establish engineering best practices across architecture, CI/CD, monitoring, and DevOps
• Guide and mentor engineers while maintaining a strong individual contributor presence
• Define infrastructure automation strategies (IaC, provisioning, deployment workflows)
• Drive performance, reliability, and observability standards
• Partner with product and leadership to translate vision into executable technical milestones

What We’re Looking For

Core Experience

• 8+ years building and shipping production software
• Prior experience leading engineering initiatives or managing technical direction
• Proven track record scaling a generative AI system or AI-enabled platform in production
• Strong backend engineering background in Python
• Additional proficiency in TypeScript or Java
• Experience with a modern compiled language such as Go or Rust
• Deep knowledge of microservices architecture and RESTful API design
• Hands-on expertise with one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Advanced DevOps knowledge: CI/CD, automated deployments, monitoring, alerting
• Experience containerizing and orchestrating services with Docker and Kubernetes

Leadership & Execution

• Comfortable setting technical direction while staying hands-on
• Strong communicator who can explain complex systems clearly
• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving, startup environment

Nice to Have

• Experience building or deploying ML/AI systems (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)
• Strong GCP background (bonus if you’ve worked across AWS/Azure as well)
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue
• Experience working in healthcare, health tech, or regulated industries

Work Environment

This role is based in Palo Alto with a hybrid schedule (3 days per week onsite). We provide daily meals and foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $220,000 – $280,000, depending on experience and location
• Meaningful equity package
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible hours
• Hybrid work environment
• Opportunity to help shape the future of AI in healthcare

If you're excited about building a production-grade AI platform that directly impacts patient outcomes — and want to help define the technical foundation of a category-defining company — let’s talk.

Staff Design Quality Engineer – Class III Implantable Medical Device

San Francisco Bay Area | Full-Time | Hybrid

A fast-growing medical device company developing next generation implantable technology is expanding its engineering team and hiring a Staff Design Quality Engineer to support the development of a highly innovative Class III medical device platform.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role embedded directly with R&D, focused on ensuring quality is built into product development from early feasibility through clinical and commercial stages.

You will play a key role in helping bring a breakthrough therapy to market while working alongside experienced engineers and cross-functional leaders in a collaborative development environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with R&D and systems engineering teams to integrate design quality into product development
• Lead and support design control activities throughout the product lifecycle
• Drive risk management efforts (ISO 14971) including hazard analysis, FMEAs, and risk mitigation strategies
• Support verification and validation planning and execution
• Ensure compliance with FDA design control requirements and global quality standards
• Participate in cross-functional design reviews and technical decision making
• Help translate regulatory and quality requirements into practical engineering processes

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Engineering (Biomedical, Mechanical, Electrical, or related)
• 7+ years of experience in medical device product development or design quality
• Strong experience with design controls and risk management
• Experience supporting Class II or Class III medical devices
• Ability to collaborate closely with R&D in early-stage product development
• Experience supporting IDE, PMA, or complex regulatory pathways is highly valued

What Makes This Opportunity Unique

• Work on cutting-edge implantable technology
• Join a highly technical engineering-driven team
• Be involved early in the development lifecycle
• Significant opportunity for technical ownership and influence
• Competitive compensation, bonus, and equity package

If you are interested in learning more, feel free to reach out directly.

Senior Staff Full Stack Engineer – Platform

Location: San Francisco (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

About the Company

Our client is a well-funded, high-growth technology company building AI-powered software used by large enterprise customers in complex, regulated environments. The organisation is focused on improving operational efficiency and decision-making through intelligent automation and advanced data systems.

Backed by leading investors, the company is scaling rapidly and investing heavily in its engineering platform to support continued product expansion and customer growth.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer to join a growing platform engineering team. This role will focus on building and scaling the core systems, internal tooling, and shared services that underpin the company’s product suite.

You will play a key role in architectural decisions, system design, and engineering best practices while working across backend and frontend technologies in a distributed, high-performing team.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable full stack applications and shared platform services
• Develop robust APIs and backend systems using modern frameworks
• Contribute to frontend development using contemporary web technologies
• Partner with product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact features
• Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability
• Uphold strong engineering standards across testing, security, and maintainability
• Contribute to architectural discussions and mentor other engineers where appropriate

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in full stack software engineering
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python (or comparable modern languages)
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and distributed systems
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with automated testing (unit and integration)
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices and version control (Git)

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments
• Exposure to cloud-native architectures and scalable infrastructure
• Background in performance optimisation or systems reliability

This is an opportunity to join a mission-driven organisation at an exciting stage of growth, with meaningful ownership and technical influence from day one.

For more information or to apply, please contact Sam Shinner at Discover International.