Engineering Jobs in Muir Beach, CA

Compensation

$170k-$225k

0.17%-1.04%

TLDR

We are growing fast, profitable, and need to hire a Founding Back End Engineer ASAP. This role is focused on selling Neon’s automation platform to healthcare and life sciences organizations, owning the full sales cycle from prospecting through close. Ideal candidates have enterprise SaaS sales experience, thrive in high-growth environments, and are motivated to build a category-defining company. You should have at least 4 years of experience.

Our Market

The crisis: Sarah delayed cancer treatment for weeks facing massive monthly costs. Marcus's autoimmune condition worsened while battling insurance denials.

Over 50% of critical prescriptions are abandoned due to:

• Cost barriers: Patients with high copays are 5x more likely to abandon treatment
• Insurance maze: Complex prior authorizations block access
• Logistical challenges: Coordinating medical visits for treatments

Neon's technology eliminates these obstacles by automating patient access workflows for pharma companies: —automating authorizations, streamlining benefits verification, and unlocking financial assistance.

Why Join?

• Frighteningly ambitious: We’re seasoned builders on a mission to create a $200B+ company—on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow—serving the largest healthcare enterprises.
• Experienced founding team: Built by exited founders, YC & MIT alum, ex-Tesla, ex-Google engineers.
• Hypergrowth with stability: We went from initial idea to 7+ figure customer contracts in just 4 months—in an industry where sales cycles typically take 12-18 months. We are profitable and relentlessly focused on execution.
• Powerhouse backing: We’re funded by elite Silicon Valley VCs who've backed unicorns like DoorDash, Lyft, and Mammoth Biosciences. And strategic healthcare investors with deep industry connections.
• Outsized impact & opportunity: Work at the intersection of agentic AI, healthcare transformation, and life-changing patient outcomes.

Required Skills

Technical skills:

• Proficiency with Node, Typescript, and Python.
• Good understanding of system design concepts - distributed systems, reliability/performance tradeoffs
• Experience in API design, implementation, and documentation
• Experience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Github Copilot, Claude, etc)
• Experience working with CI/CD systems and good DevOps skills a nice to have
• Excellent documentation and testing habits
• Proficiency with version control (Git)

Soft skills:

• 10x mindset - you’ll be among the first engineering hires!
• You are a fun human!
• Good time management and planning skills

Experience

4-7 years of experience (or equivalent) as a software engineer.

We’re leveling this role to Pave’s “P4” level: Leads project teams, provides direction, and keeps stakeholders informed. Determines key milestones and provides updates and check-ins to relevant teams and partners.

• You are able to work with the rest of the team to:
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• Define priorities
• Suggest good solutions
• Excel at implementation
• You pick up concepts quickly, pattern match on past problems.
• You are obsessed with speed and quality, and help embed that quality into the rest of the team.
• You are self-directed, and do not need help organizing / prioritizing your time.

Specific project experience

• Nice if you have worked on distributed architectures in the past, but not a strict requirement.
• You must have experience working on projects touching many parts of a large codebase.

Remote or Hybrid

Atlas Cup is building the world’s first professional orbital racing league — creating a new category of sport at the intersection of spaceflight, AI, and global media.

Competition in orbit requires more than fast spacecraft. It requires precise mission design, safe multi-vehicle operations, and race formats that are technically rigorous, repeatable, and compelling to fans.

We’re hiring our first Chief Race Architect to design and lead the technical foundation of competition itself — from orbital course design to operational standards and multi-spacecraft coordination.

This is a founding technical leadership role for someone who has designed and operated real missions — and wants to invent an entirely new form of space activity.

• Define the technical architecture of Atlas Cup races and orbital competitions
• Design orbital courses, maneuver profiles, and mission constraints
• Establish safety, operations, and flight dynamics standards for multi-vehicle racing
• Lead race mission planning, simulation, and validation efforts
• Develop rules and technical requirements that ensure fairness and performance
• Partner with teams on spacecraft capabilities, maneuver strategies, and integration
• Build the simulation, visualization, and tooling stack to model races end-to-end
• Collaborate internally and with partners to ensure competitions are understandable and compelling for spectators
• Serve as a core technical leader within Atlas Cup’s executive team
• Travel as needed (~25%) to support testing, partners, and events
  

• 10+ years in astrodynamics, mission design, or spacecraft systems engineering
• Hands-on experience planning and operating active space missions
• Deep understanding of orbital mechanics, rendezvous/proximity ops, and multi-spacecraft coordination
• Comfortable making first-principles decisions in novel environments
• Systems thinker who can translate complex flight concepts into clear operational frameworks
• Calm under pressure and effective leading cross-functional technical teams
• Thrive in early-stage, build-from-scratch environments
  

• Launch campaign or flight operations experience
• Experience with maneuverable spacecraft, OTVs, or upper stages
• Simulation, modeling, or visualization software development
• Experience working with regulatory or safety standards
• Startup or venture-backed company experience

Advanced degree in aerospace engineering, astrodynamics, or related field preferred.

• Founding technical leadership role defining a new category of spaceflight
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity
• Remote or hybrid flexibility (San Francisco HQ planned)
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), unlimited PTO, and standard benefits

Compensation: $155,000 – $185,000 base + equity (based on experience and location)

Atlas Cup is an equal opportunity employer and values diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

Interested?

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

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.

Job Title : Nuclear Engineer (Naval Reactors Engineer) Category / Component : Officer • Active Overview Design, regulate, and oversee the Navy's nuclear propulsion program, including reactor design, fleet operations, and eventual defueling and decommissioning of nuclear powered ships and submarines from Naval Reactors Headquarters and associated Department of Energy laboratories and shipyards.

Key Responsibilities Provide technical direction in areas such as reactor and fluid systems design, reactor physics, materials development, component design for steam generators, pumps, and valves, instrumentation and control for reactor and propulsion plants, testing and quality control, radiation shielding, and chemistry and radiological controls; review designs and analyses from laboratories, shipyards, and industry partners; coordinate with fleet units to ensure safe and reliable nuclear plant operation.

What to Expect Assume significant technical responsibility early in your career as part of a lean headquarters staff; work primarily in an analytical and oversight role rather than operating plants at sea; balance long term engineering projects with time sensitive fleet and shipyard issues; frequent coordination with senior civilian engineers, naval officers, and technical teams; high expectations for attention to detail, judgment, and written and oral communication.

Work Environment Work mainly at Naval Reactors Headquarters in the Washington, District of Columbia area with regular engagement with Department of Energy laboratories, nuclear training sites, shipyards, and nuclear powered ships and submarines; office based work that includes document reviews, technical meetings, inspections, and site visits rather than day to day shipboard watchstanding.

Pathways, Training & Advancement Officer commissioning through programs such as Officer Candidate School or the Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate program followed by a structured technical qualification program at Naval Reactors; rotational exposure to laboratories, prototypes, shipyards, and fleet support issues; progressive responsibility leading projects and becoming a subject matter expert, with opportunities for professional military education and advanced graduate study in technical fields.

Entry through the Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate program for qualified college students and recent graduates, or selection via Officer Candidate School for those who already hold qualifying degrees; all applicants must meet Nuclear Propulsion Program academic and technical screening standards in addition to general officer commissioning requirements.

Qualifications All Navy jobs require meeting general enlistment or commissioning standards, which typically include: Eligibility to serve in the United States Navy, which may involve United States citizenship or other legal residency and work status, depending on the program and current law and policy A high school diploma or equivalent for enlisted positions, and a bachelor's or qualifying professional degree for officer positions Meeting age limits that vary by program and are set in law and Navy policy.

Some communities have more restrictive age ranges Meeting medical, vision, and dental standards, including body composition and physical fitness requirements, with some jobs requiring more demanding standards Meeting character and conduct standards, including background screening Achieving required test scores for your program, such as the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery for enlisted roles or officer qualification tests for officer programs Eligibility for a security clearance when required for your rating or designator Additional qualifications can include specific skills, education, licensure, or experience that are unique to a job or community and will be reviewed with you by a recruiter.

Additional qualifications for this job may include: Completion of a rigorous technical degree in engineering, physics, mathematics, or a closely related field that includes strong backgrounds in calculus and physics; outstanding academic record, particularly in technical coursework; United States citizenship and eligibility for a high level security clearance; strong technical aptitude and comfort with detailed analytical work.

Education Education benefits are available through standard Navy programs such as Tuition Assistance, the Post-9/11 GI Bill, ACE-recommended college credit for Navy training, Navy COOL-funded certifications, USMAP apprenticeships, and other Navy College Program opportunities.

Specific options depend on the Sailor's status, training, and current Navy policy.

Pay, Benefits & Service Pay, benefits, and service commitments follow standard Navy Active and/or Reserve policies for this type of role, including basic pay, allowances when eligible, health coverage, and retirement options.

Exact entitlements, special pays, and service obligations depend on program, component, years of service, and current law and Navy guidance.

Incentives Incentives such as bonuses, special pays, and loan repayment may be available at times for specific ratings or communities, but they change frequently and cannot be guaranteed.

Applicants must confirm current incentives and eligibility with an official Navy recruiter or authoritative Navy source.

Notes and Disclaimers This description is a general overview of typical duties, training, and opportunities in this community.

It does not replace official Navy instructions, policies, or contracts and does not guarantee specific assignments, training, incentives, or outcomes.

Actual opportunities depend on Navy needs, individual performance, screening results, and current law and policy.

Senior Environmental Inspector/Biologist

About A-T-S:

Applied Technology & Science (A-T-S) is an integrated engineering and environmental firm headquartered in San Francisco. Our focus is water and energy infrastructure planning, design, construction management and compliance, natural resource management and data sciences and technology development including the use of geospatial and AI for public and private sector clients. Our portfolio of work includes projects and partnerships with public agencies, municipalities, private and non-profit organizations.

A-T-S is accepting applications for an Environmental Inspector (EI)/Project Biologist/Environmental Scientist. As part of the Construction Management Team, the EI inspects, evaluates, verifies, and documents the compliance of construction activities according to environmental conditions and requirements contained in the CEQA documents, Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan (MMRP), federal, state and local permits and construction documents/specifications. As part of the job, the EI, as the client's representative, also provides recommendations to contractors to keep them in compliance. The EI is expected to understand BMP, storm water management, air quality, dust and noise minimization and coordinate the specialty expertise personnel in these areas.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts daily or routine inspections of environmental parameters and provides environmental awareness training.
• Prepares daily environmental inspection logs and maintains compliance tracking materials.
• Works closely with contractors and applies knowledge of permits and other project related documents to make quick decisions.
• Establishes relationships with the client, contractors and other stake-holders.
• May assist with other tasks as needed, including attending meetings to obtain and provide project updates, monthly and/or annual reporting, and assistance with the development of various plans (e.g., relocation, burrow protection, refueling, contractor submittals).
• May assist with non-EI related projects to perform plant and/or wildlife surveys, vegetation management monitoring, and contractor monitoring.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of consulting experience in the natural resources management field, 2 years of experience in construction monitoring and inspection.
• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Planning, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Studies, or a related field.
• For candidates with biology degree, the experience level to be qualified/approved by CDFW and/or USFWS for species-specific work.
• Experience working with and understanding CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) requirements various environmental regulations.
• Knowledge and experience with field data collection practices, data management, and preparation of technical documents.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills (both written and verbal).
• Willingness to adapt to schedule changes (e.g., extended hours, shifting start and end times, night work, weekends), sometimes on short notice.
• Ability to mentor and supervise junior staff.
• Team player, self-directed, and detail oriented.
• Can travel to project site(s) within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Preferred (but not required) Qualifications:

• Experience with various permits and for biologists holding a California Scientific Collector's Permit, federal recovery permit, and/or a Memorandum of Understanding.
• Master's degree in environmental planning, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Studies, or a related field.

Overview

Whistler Partners is partnering with to hire its first senior legal leader — a Head of Legal with the opportunity to step into a General Counsel title for the right candidate.

Owner provides a suite of tools designed to help local restaurant owners increase sales and strengthen their online presence. From mobile ordering and customer rewards to digital growth infrastructure, the platform empowers independent restaurants to compete and win. As the business expands product surfaces, navigates regulatory complexity, and enters increasingly strategic partnerships, legal leadership is now mission-critical.

This is a foundational hire at a high-growth, mission-driven SaaS company.

Why this role?

This is not an incremental legal hire. It's a build-from-zero seat.

You will own the full legal stack — corporate, compliance, employment, IP, litigation, regulatory, and commercial — and serve as a strategic partner to the executive team. You won't inherit a pre-built function. You'll architect it.

Success in this role means:

• Building scalable systems from ambiguity
• Knowing when to leverage outside counsel — and when to move internally
• Acting as DRI on the company's most sensitive initiatives
• Helping leadership move faster while strengthening risk discipline

The title is flexible and may include General Counsel for the right candidate.

This is ideal for a builder who wants true ownership, executive visibility, and the opportunity to shape Legal at a scaling technology company from day one.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product & Design, GTM, People, Finance, Ops, and the Executive team
• Act as strategic advisor to the CEO on negotiations, disputes, and sensitive matters
• Build and scale Owner's Legal function as its first full-time legal hire
• Serve as DRI on litigation strategy, regulatory posture, and complex commercial agreements
• Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure new products and pricing models are built with compliance and risk minimization in mind
• Design scalable systems across contracting, compliance, governance, privacy, employment, and IP
• Manage outside counsel across corporate, regulatory, employment, and litigation matters
• Support fundraising, board matters, corporate governance, and investor communications
• Proactively identify legal risk areas and implement preventive frameworks

About You

• 8–10+ years of legal experience across law firm and in-house environments
• Broad, "full-stack" experience across commercial, corporate, compliance, IP, employment, and litigation oversight
• Builder mentality — energized by creating structure from scratch
• Strong executive presence and business judgment
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Able to partner closely with product and engineering teams
• Motivated to scale and eventually build a Legal team

Compensation

$250,000 – $325,000

Owner is open to increased compensation at the General Counsel level and may stretch beyond the posted range for the right candidate.

Perks

Comprehensive health coverage, Bay Area-based remote flexibility, unlimited PTO, and additional growth-stage benefits.

Interested?

This search is being led by Wolf at Whistler Partners. Please contact them for a confidential conversation.

About Whistler Partners

Matchmakers, Not Headhunters

Whistler Partners is a boutique matchmaking firm focused on counseling the best and the brightest attorneys over the course of their careers. We believe that the right move comes from working closely with talent to curate their long-term career paths. When it comes to career advice, what matters is not the size of the agency but the strength of your individual recruiter.

We readily admit that we are elite and only work with the best – after all, a little elitism is okay when it comes to your career. Employers love us because we are picky about whom we represent, and attorneys love us because we get them their dream jobs.

About Higgsfield

Higgsfield AI is the leading video AI company redefining synthetic media on socials. The company is entering its next stage of scale with $200M+ run-rate sales in just 9 months after launch, and a fresh $130M Series A.

Role Overview

We are hiring an Associate General Counsel, Product to serve during a period of hypergrowth. This role reports directly to the General Counsel and will focus on product, privacy, AI, and other regulatory matters. It is an opportunity to shape and scale an emerging Legal function that also serves as a business thought partner and guide. A successful candidate will be a high-energy problem-solver who consistently drives results.

This role is hybrid and based in the San Francisco Bay Area (preferred) or Los Angeles.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the company's design, engineering, and research teams to provide to legal and strategic risk-mitigation advice on a variety of topics including privacy, data security, safety, copyright, AI regulations, and consumer protection laws.
• Grow and operate a global privacy and data protection compliance program.
• Build out legal and operational infrastructure so risk is managed in an efficient and scalable way.
• Stay current on legal developments relevant to AI companies and translate the potential risks into actionable advice.
• Contribute to urgent company initiatives that may be outside of your core expertise.

Knowledge, Skills, and Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of state and international privacy, data protection, and online safety laws.
• Working knowledge of copyright, secondary liability, and emerging AI regulations. Curiosity and discipline to learn new areas of law to meet business needs.
• Some knowledge of marketing and consumer protection laws as applied to digital platforms and ecommerce.
• Low-ego, "doer" attitude. Someone who eagerly tackles projects large and small. Not an equivocator, mere delegator, or someone overly reliant on outside experts.
• Comfort in a very fast-paced, demanding, results-oriented environment with colleagues in distant time zones.
• Crisp, business-friendly communications skills.
• J.D. and active membership in at least one state bar who can practice in-house in California.
• 6+ years of experience practicing law.
• Strongly preferred: meaningful in-house experience at a high-growth tech company with AI-powered products.