Engineering Jobs in Monte Sereno, CA

About Straia

At Straia, we’re building the AI-native intelligence layer for colleges and universities.

Today, colleges run on dozens of disconnected systems, forcing staff to spend hundreds of hours manually reconciling data, compiling reports, and tracking down insights. Straia changes that. We unify institutional data and layer on AI agents that answer questions, generate insights/visualizations, and automate repetitive workflows, transforming how colleges operate.

Over time, Straia will evolve into the core intelligence layer for institutional operations, where every function, from student advising to admissions to budgeting and resource planning, is supported by collaborative AI agents that understand each institution’s unique data landscape.

We recently raised our pre-seed from a16z, Reach Capital, and JFF Ventures, and are now hiring a founding backend engineer to help build the technical backbone of how institutions interact with their data.

The Role

As a Founding Engineer at Straia, you’ll work directly with a small team including directly with our CEO (Ryan), CTO (Alan) and CPO (Nikki) to design, build, and scale the core infrastructure of our platform.

This is a 0 → 1 opportunity to shape not just the product, but the engineering culture, architecture, and trajectory of the company. You’ll ship fast, make key technical decisions, and help define how AI can power the next generation of enterprise data intelligence.

We’re specifically looking for someone who consistently raises the bar. The kind of engineer whose default speed and judgment increase the velocity of everyone around them. If you thrive when expectations are high and the pace is fast, you’ll feel right at home

What You'll Do

• Build the core platform — architect and implement services spanning data ingestion, query orchestration, and agentic AI workflows
• Ship end-to-end features across our React + Node.js + Postgres stack, integrating directly with LLMs like GPT, Gemini, and Claude
• Scale infrastructure on GCP for performance, reliability, and data security
• Collaborate with users (university data teams and administrators) to translate real problems into elegant, powerful solutions
• Lay the foundation for Straia’s engineering culture, best practices, and technical roadmap
• Prototype fast, iterate faster — your work will directly shape how education leaders experience AI in their daily decision-making

Who You Are

• 4–7 years of experience building and shipping full-stack applications, with a strong emphasis on backend systems (Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres).
• Deeply technical, with a track record of building scalable, high-quality software
• Startup-minded — you thrive in ambiguity, love building from scratch, and see constraints as creative fuel
• Mission-driven — excited to improve education through technology that makes institutions smarter, faster, and more equitable
• Collaborative and high-agency — you take initiative, value clear communication, and have the instincts of an owner, not an employee
• AI-curious or experienced — exposure to LLMs, vector databases, or prompt engineering is a plus

Our Stack

• Frontend: React + Vite
• Backend: Node.js + Express, orchestrating data and AI agent workflows
• Data Layer: Postgres + Caching for fast queries
• LLM Integration: GPT, Gemini, Claude via API
• Cloud & Infra: Hosted on GCP

Why Join Straia

• Be one of the first engineers at a venture-backed AI company redefining institutional intelligence in higher ed
• Shape the core architecture and engineering culture from day one
• Work directly with top-tier investors and advisors from a16z, Reach, and JFF Ventures
• Join a small, fast-moving team that works incredibly hard, ships fast, and still makes time for good food, laughs, and adventures — we take our work seriously, but not ourselves
• Build meaningful technology that directly impacts student success and equity across colleges nationwide

What We Offer

• Compensation: $160K–$225K + equity
• Location: San Francisco (in office 4 days a week)
• Benefits: Health (platinum insurance), dental, and vision

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Position: Technical Program Manager III
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months Contract - possible extension
Job ID: 175212

Job Overview:

The Technical Program Manager III will oversee the successful definition, implementation, and delivery of complex audio hardware programs. This role requires cross-functional collaboration and management of interdependencies across multiple projects and activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in hardware product development, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver audio hardware programs within the constraints of scope, quality, time, budget, and risk factors.
• Engage in program-level strategic planning, interaction with engineering teams and management, and complex issue resolution.
• Oversee project scope definition, requirements gathering, schedule development, budget management, and status reporting.
• Manage hardware builds, issue and risk management, contingency planning, and customer interactions.
• Plan and drive engineering deliverables, including audio subsystem specifications, DOEs, ECNs, and validation results.
  

• Experience in project estimating, scheduling, tracking, and customer interaction in large organizations.
• Proven people management and team-building skills.
• Ability to adapt and exercise judgment in a changing environment while managing competing priorities.
• Strong risk assessment and management skills for technology applications/products and business functions.
• Experience with hardware product development lifecycle and working with vendors, including flexibility for travel and on-site support.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field required. MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as an audio Technical Program Manager or Engineer with consumer products such as phones, tablets, watches, or glasses.
• PMP or PMI certification preferred.

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Pay Range: $90- $100

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Material Handler (Kitting) – Onsite – San Jose, CA (Contract‑to‑Hire)

We are seeking a motivated Material Handler with strong kitting and inventory experience to join our supply chain operations team. This is a full‑time onsite role in San Jose, CA with long‑term conversion potential.

Responsibilities

• Perform end‑to‑end inventory management.
• Execute kitting for production and engineering teams.
• Handle receiving, inspection, and material documentation.
• Maintain inventory accuracy using internal software.
• Support shipping and logistics processes.
• Keep stockrooms organized and compliant.
• Follow safety, quality, and workflow procedures.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in material handling, kitting, or inventory.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Strong computer and data entry abilities.
• Excellent attention to detail and problem‑solving.
• Time‑management, reliability, and ability to work independently.
• Comfortable in a fast‑paced environment.

Bonus Skills

• Forklift certification.

If you are interested, apply today!

About Altera

Altera is a leading provider of FPGAs, SoCs, and semiconductor solutions powering innovation across AI, networking, high-performance computing, and embedded systems. We are committed to delivering world-class silicon products through rigorous validation and engineering excellence.

Role Overview

Altera is seeking a visionary Senior Director of Post-Silicon Validation to lead and drive all aspects of post-silicon validation across multiple product lines. This strategic leadership role is responsible for defining validation roadmaps, ensuring robust silicon bring-up, and enabling high-quality product launches.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and implement Altera's post-silicon validation strategy, roadmap, and execution plans to meet quality and time-to-market goals.

• End-to-End Validation Ownership: Oversee the full post-silicon validation lifecyclefrom initial bring-up to high-volume production ramp-up.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with design, verification, software, test, and manufacturing teams to ensure seamless validation and debug processes.

• Technical Excellence: Lead efforts in system-level debugging, performance characterization, and validation methodology development.

• Process Optimization: Establish and continuously improve validation tools, automation frameworks, and lab infrastructure.

• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring robust contingency planning and issue resolution.

• Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing validation team, fostering innovation and collaboration.

• Executive Communication: Provide regular updates to senior leadership on validation progress, risks, and resolutions.

• Compliance & Standards: Ensure validation practices align with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Salary Range

The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

$221,500 - $326,350 USD

*We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position.*

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

• 10+ years of experience in silicon validation, with 5+ years in a leadership role.

• Proven track record managing large-scale validation programs across multiple product lines.

• Deep expertise in post-silicon validation methodologies, high-speed interfaces, power management, and system-level debug.

• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Experience with industry-standard validation tools and lab equipment.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in high-performance computing, AI accelerators, or networking silicon products.

• Knowledge of firmware validation, statistical data analysis, and test automation.

• Familiarity with Agile development and modern program management practices.

Our clients are seeking an exceptional Patent Associates or Patent Agents to join the intellectual property teams in several offices nationwide.

Candidates must have a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical, biotech, chemistry, chemical, biomedical.

The successful candidate will have experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications, responding to office actions, assisting in the preparation of opinions and conducting prior art searches OR patent litigation in high tech or life sciences.

USPTO admission is preferred.

Both experienced patent agents and patent attorneys are welcome to apply.

Role: Forward Deployment Engineer

Location: Bay Area, CA (Hybrid / Local Candidates Only)

Duration: 6-Month Contract

Position Overview

We are seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to work closely with customers to rapidly diagnose, develop, and deploy technical solutions that address real-time user issues. This role requires a hands-on full-stack engineer who can quickly understand customer workflows, translate business problems into technical solutions, and implement fixes within extremely short turnaround times.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in highly dynamic environments, collaborating directly with end users and product teams to identify problems, architect solutions, and deploy updates rapidly. The role requires a strong ability to leverage modern development approaches, including rapid prototyping and vibe-coding or similar fast iteration techniques, to resolve customer issues within tight timelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to identify and diagnose real-time user issues within deployed systems.
• Translate user needs and operational challenges into technical solutions and rapid fixes.
• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack solutions to resolve customer problems quickly.
• Implement rapid iterations using modern development practices such as vibe-coding, rapid prototyping, and accelerated deployment workflows.
• Deliver production-ready fixes and enhancements within short turnaround windows (often within 12 hours).
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to ensure solutions align with platform architecture and long-term product strategy.
• Monitor deployed solutions, gather feedback from users, and continuously improve system performance and usability.
• Document solutions and contribute improvements back into the core product or platform.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience as a full-stack software engineer with hands-on development experience.
• Ability to quickly diagnose technical issues and design solutions in real time.
• Experience building and deploying applications across both frontend and backend components.
• Comfortable working directly with customers and understanding real-world user workflows and operational challenges.
• Experience with rapid development and deployment methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in forward deployment engineering, solution engineering, or customer-facing engineering roles.
• Familiarity with modern development stacks and cloud-based architectures.
• Experience with rapid prototyping tools, AI-assisted coding, or accelerated development frameworks.
• Background working in high-growth technology companies or enterprise SaaS environments.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated engineering project manager (EPM) with a proven consumer product development track record to work cross functionally with our Softgoods Product Design Team.

In this role you will drive the day-to-day activities to meet the overall program objectives related to mechanical design, development, and engineering validation. You will build and maintain project schedules, assess and mitigate risk, and lead cross functional teams via great communication and diligent oversight.

You will enable team success by crafting and monitoring a streamlined development plan, managing critical path, and driving timely issue resolution. You will lead team meetings, document action items, drive followup, and be accountable for communicating development and schedule status to senior management.

Your role will include coordinating with Product Design, Industrial Design (ID), Operations, Reliability and other key cross functional teams. You will understand technical issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key partners and facilitating problem solving and decision-making. You will be empowered to build great relationships across high-energy teams.

You will work closely with manufacturing suppliers and OEM partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS ME or equivalent

• Project management experience related to developing computer accessories or related consumer products

• Experience working closely with product design and other cross functional teams to drive closure of technical issues and communicate risk

• Experience creating schedules

• You are someone who is analytical, professionally assertive, and exhibit excellent attention to detail

• Strong verbal & written communication and executive level presentation skills

• You exhibit a deeply curious mindset about new ideas

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a practicing mechanical engineer or related product development role prior to becoming a project manager

• Experience working with industrial designers or other similarly creative product developers

• Experience fostering relationships with manufacturing suppliers and coordinating development builds

• Experience managing program finances and tracking budget

• Prior experience working with soft goods materials and processes (synthetics, textiles)

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BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated "ASIC Power Engineer" for an opportunity in the Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid) location..!!!

Position Title: ASIC Power Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid)

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 6 Months (Possible Extension)

Job Type: CONTRACT – Hybrid

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Hours: 40 hours per week

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced ASIC Power Engineer to perform power analysis and optimization for advanced chip designs used in next-generation AR/VR devices. The role focuses on improving PPA (Power, Performance, Area) through RTL and netlist-level power analysis and collaborating with cross-functional ASIC design teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform power analysis and PPA optimization across ASIC design flows
• Analyze RTL and netlist-level power reports
• Develop scripts (Python/Perl/TCL) for report analysis and automation
• Work with synthesis, physical design, timing, and power flows
• Implement low-power methodologies using UPF

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in ASIC Power or Low Power Design
• Experience with Synopsys tools (DC, ICC, PrimePower/PTPX, VCS, Verdi) or Cadence Joules
• Knowledge of UPF and power optimization techniques
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Perl, or TCL)
• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Preferred Qualifications:

• Silicon power characterization
• Power profiling at IP/SoC level
• Experience with data analysis/visualization (Excel or MATLAB)

SBT is the exclusive retained recruiting firm for this position.

Company Overview

This confidential startup is a well-funded early-stage semiconductor company focused on advancing AI-driven design to address emerging challenges in the artificial intelligence ecosystem. The company is developing innovative technologies that leverage automation and machine learning to accelerate the design and development of complex analog semiconductor solutions. By applying AI to traditionally manual and time-intensive design processes, the organization aims to unlock faster innovation cycles and enable the next generation of AI hardware infrastructure.

Job Role

• Design and implement digital control logic for power management ICs
• Work closely with analog engineering teams to ensure effective integration between digital control blocks and analog power circuitry
• Develop high-quality, power-efficient RTL using Verilog or SystemVerilog to support key features
• Contribute to product readiness for manufacturing by supporting design-for-test methodologies
• Create and execute comprehensive verification strategies, including mixed-signal simulations and behavioral modeling

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in digital IC design, including significant experience developing solutions for mixed-signal or power management semiconductor products.
• Strong proficiency in RTL development using Verilog or SystemVerilog for synthesizable digital design.
• Hands-on experience designing digital control logic for power conversion systems, including control loops used in power management or DC-DC converter applications.

Are you ready to help build a next-generation MEMS manufacturing line that powers cutting-edge genomic sequencing technology?

Do you take pride in precision, efficiency, and setting up processes that deliver reliable, high-quality output?

Do you thrive in an environment with diversity, communication, collaboration, and teamwork as the core values?

As a MEMS Manufacturing Technician, you will be responsible for supporting the setup, execution, and continuous improvement of our MEMS and flowcell production processes. You will play a hands-on role in building the lab infrastructure, installing and qualifying new equipment, and ensuring high product quality in a cleanroom environment.

This is a contract position through an external agency with the potential to transition to a full-time role based on performance and business needs.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Perform daily cleanroom manufacturing processes including wet processing, resist coating, chemical vapor deposition, mechanical assembly, and visual inspections using high-powered microscopes (bright field/dark field).
• Support installation and qualification of new equipment, fixtures, and tools, coordinating with Facilities and Engineering.
• Conduct preventive maintenance and basic troubleshooting of production equipment.
• Revise and execute standard operating procedures (SOPs), preventive maintenance schedules, and process documentation.
• Set up efficient workstations and workflows to ensure smooth production.
• Collect process data and apply SPC principles to monitor and control yield and performance.
• Train and mentor junior technicians in cleanroom and GMP best practices.
• Document continuous improvement (Kaizen/A3) projects.

ABOUT YOU

• You take ownership of your work and thrive in fast-paced, hands-on environments.
• You have strong problem-solving and analytical skills and communicate clearly across teams.
• You value structure, accuracy, and consistency in your daily work.
• You’re proactive in identifying and solving issues before they become bottlenecks.

WHERE YOU WILL WORK

• Primary location: On-site in Sunnyvale, California
• Local travel: Drive to San Jose, California approximately twice per week for parts delivery (~15% of time)
• Occasional travel: Minimal travel may be required for equipment installation, vendor support, or training.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING US

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in MEMS, semiconductor, or advanced manufacturing.
• Proven cleanroom experience with contamination control and GMP compliance.
• Proficiency with high-powered optical microscopes and visual inspection techniques.
• Familiarity with Lean manufacturing, Kaizen, and SPC principles.
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Microsoft Excel for data tracking.
• Strong collaboration, documentation, and organizational skills.
• (Preferred) Experience writing or updating production and equipment procedures.

WHAT YOUR EDUCATION LOOKS LIKE

• Associate’s degree in Manufacturing Technology, Electronics, or a related technical field—or equivalent work experience.

HOW WE WILL REWARD YOU

The base hourly rate for this contract position is $25.00 to $30.00 per hour, depending on experience.

This is a contract role employed through a staffing agency, with optional employee benefits available.

Successful performance may lead to consideration for a full-time position with benefits.

Complete Genomics provides equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, disability, veteran or uniformed service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.