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Lead Software Engineer 2 in San Francisco

165 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

Explore current lead software engineer 2 jobs in San Francisco. Filter by work mode, employment type, experience, department, date posted and distance.

Hiring demand

70/100

rising · 203 related jobs

Hiring trend

-1%

Job postings compared with the previous 30 days

Remote options

4.4%

Share of matching jobs listed as remote

Typical salary

$237.5K – $237.5K/yr

Based on 46 salary observations

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing

$140K – $225K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role The Device Experience team is building intelligent, desktop-native applications that redefine how people engage with their PCs. These aren’t traditional applications—they’re responsive, local-first experiences that seamlessly surface AI-powered insights, actions, and context, right when and where users need them. You’ll help craft the interface between human intent and machine intelligence—engineering native software that’s deeply integrated with Windows and optimized for performance. This work is core to how HP IQ brings the future of work to life: fluid, adaptive, and powered by intelligence that runs directly on the device. We’re looking for an engineer who’s excited to shape modern, intuitive experiences, and help define how users across HP’s global footprint interact with intelligent systems every day. You’ll lead by example, drive core application architecture, and help shape a flagship product from the ground up. What You Might Do Design and build native Windows applications that are performant, responsive, and polished. Develop on-device experiences that adapt in real time to

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingAbove median payDemand 70/100

From $252K/yr

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Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times – AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal tutor, coach, assistant, personal shopper, travel guide, and therapist throughout life. As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products. To make them safe, aligned and actually useful, these models need human evaluation and reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) during pre-training, fine-tuning, and production evaluations. This is the main innovation that’s enabled ChatGPT to get such a large headstart among competition. At Scale, our products include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and others that power the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI. At the foundation of these products is the Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of core data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms and underlying systems. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies. You will: Drive the architecture, design, implementation, and reliability of our foundational data platforms and systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features. Proactively identify opportunities for, and driving improvements to, current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades. Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingBelow typical payDemand 70/100

From $184K/yr

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Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, Frontier AI Infrastructure to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will own the model inference layer - enabling state of the art models, debugging the latest AI tools, managing networking, debugging latency, and tracking pricing/usage metrics for AI models. You will lead technical discussions on the frontlines with cloud vendors and customers to deliver on critical contracts and to debug platform issues. You will also work upstream with Product to understand features before they break, moving us from "infra-only debugging" to proactive integration testing. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. You will work with Product to build integration tests that catch issues early, shifting the focus from "infra-only debugging" to preventing failures upstream. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web develo

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 70/100Company trend -74%

$195K – $1.2M/yr · Jobiba est.

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Lyft Business organization builds the platform that lets organizations move the people they depend on employees, clients, and customers. From the foundational mechanics of a company funding and provisioning a ride to the tailored workflows that get an employee to a client meeting or home after a late shift, we sweat the small stuff to make Lyft the transportation solution businesses build their programs on. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Lyft Business Team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of complex systems that span the rider experience, the administrator experience, and the enterprise integrations behind them — defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and driving engineering excellence to improve how organizations move their people. Responsibilities: Shape the long-term architecture for systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issues root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond. Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of s

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingAbove median payDemand 70/100

$260K – $290K/yr

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About VSCO For years, we've helped photographers create their work. Now we're building what comes next. VSCO exists for photographers. Not as a side feature, not as an afterthought, but as the whole point. We build the connected system photographers rely on, and we've spent over a decade earning the trust of a global creative community that takes the craft seriously. Photography is at an inflection point. AI is reshaping what's possible for creative work, and that's where our mission shines. VSCO is building the full photographer's workflow: from creating and editing your work, to delivering it to clients, to running your business. All of it built thoughtfully, with photographers leading the way. We believe the future of photography tools creates more space for creativity, handling the busy work so photographers can focus on the craft. If you care about craft, community, and what technology can unlock for creative people, this is the work. We're a mission-driven and focused company where your work ships quickly, is meaningful, and reaches tens of millions of people worldwide. You'll have a real say in what we build and how we build it. We hire people who don't wait to be asked, naturally connect the dots, care about the quality of what they ship, and believe the best outcomes come from building together. About The Role VSCO is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to own Reflex, our production GPU image-processing engine, and the path it takes into Studio Pro on iOS and macOS. This is a critical technical leader. You will deepen a stack that is already in customers’ hands: new capabilities (RAW, large-image export, desktop), production quality (color correctness, memory, performance), and the contracts that let product engineers ship on top of the engine without becoming graphics programmers. You will also lead company-wide engineering mentorship and force-multiplication — tools, workflows, and AI-assisted development that make the rest of the team more effective. In This

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 70/100Company trend -74%

₹1.5L – ₹1.9L/yr

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At Lyft, our mission is to improve people's lives with the world's best transportation. To accomplish this, we start with our community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization. About the Team The Risk Tech engineering organization is committed to tangibly reducing accident frequency, saving lives, and managing costs to enhance the safety and affordability of rides. Claim Management is a core financial function for Lyft. Each claim touches complex workflows, multiple stakeholders, sensitive data, financial reserves, regulatory processes, and significant financial liabilities. This role offers the opportunity to define a leading claims management system for the industry. Our vision is to establish a single, Unified Risk Platform where comprehensive claims workflows across all business lines are efficiently administered, communications are consolidated, and data is structured to facilitate data-driven insights and decisions.This enables cost-efficient claims operations, mitigates risks and expenses as Lyft scales, and ensures people receive assistance proactively and accurately. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and lead the development of a highly reliable, scalable, and intelligent Risk Management Information System that powers our insurance platform. You will collaborate with passionate colleagues from Engineering, Data Science, Product and Claim Operations to deliver end-to-end solutions. Responsibilities: Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for claims management systems, aligning priori

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SC
📍 San Francisco, Canada
✓ High-confidence listing

$140K – $170K/yr

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Technical Support Manager About the role: We are looking for a technically skilled, self-motivated, customer-focused manager to lead a team of high energy Support Engineers. In this role you will be responsible for hiring, developing and mentoring team members as well as delivering against key performance metrics. You'll lead process improvements for customer and partner growth, retention, and excellence, while fostering individual contributions and driving cross-functional projects that spark innovation and collaboration. You need to be comfortable working in a fast paced environment and continuously challenge the team to step outside their comfort zone. Minimum Education Requirement This position requires a U.S. Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a closely related technical field. This requirement is a minimum and cannot be substituted by work experience alone. What You Will Be Doing Become a product expert and stay technically close to complex and critical customer escalations. Lead a team of exceptional product experts providing the Sigma user base with an excellent customer experience. Hire, develop and train a strong team of Support Engineers on an ongoing basis. Own strategic areas of the Support organization end to end, from strategy through measurable outcomes. Partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to solve customer challenges and drive cross-functional outcomes. Drive performance against key Support metrics, including CSAT, Initial Response, SLA, and Time to Resolution. Continuously refine processes to optimize efficiency, elevating customer support operations. Uncover golden insights within Support data, translating them into actionable strategies that improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and business outcomes. Develop a reputation for excellence, high credibility and integrity with

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing

From $302.4K/yr

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Director of Engineering, Physical AI Role Overview The Director of Engineering will report to the General Manager of Physical AI, and will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary engineering organization. In this senior leadership role, you will own the execution of the Physical AI Data Engine — the platform powering the next generation of Physical AI/Embodied AI. You will collaborate closely with Operations and GTM to guide product direction and help solve the data bottleneck that stands between today's robotics research and real-world deployment. This role requires significant ownership in a fast-paced environment and you will motivate internal teams to set the pace for business growth. Travel will come into play. Key Responsibilities: Set and drive the technical vision across data collection infrastructure, teleoperation systems, ML training pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, annotation tooling, and research Lead a multidisciplinary engineering organization—spanning engineering managers, software engineers, ML engineers, and ML research scientists—while designing the organizational structure, talent strategy, and culture required to scale rapidly without compromising on quality or strategic alignment Maintain exceptional technical and operational excellence by deeply understanding team deliverables, asking incisive questions, identifying slipping standards early, and knowing precisely when to step in Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Operations, and GTM on platform architecture, release processes, and shared priorities Collaborate with researchers and clients to architect and deliver scalable, production-grade data infrastructure tailored for complex robotics workloads Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical field 8+ years of engineering experience in fast-paced environments, including 4+ years direct people management demonstrated history of recruiting, mentorin

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing

$150K – $210K/yr

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) What is Verse? The race to AI has become the race to power. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence depends on one thing: access to electricity. But across the country, aging grid infrastructure and years-long interconnection queues are slowing the deployment of the data centers that will power the next generation of innovation. Solving this challenge isn't just about energy—it's about unlocking the future of AI. At Verse, we're building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy. Our software helps the world's largest energy consumers achieve faster, cheaper, and cleaner power by combining real-time control of energy assets with complete visibility into their energy portfolio. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, GV, Coatue, and NVIDIA, and built by pioneers in grid-scale batteries, energy markets, and enterprise software, we're redefining how the world's most ambitious organizations access and manage energy. The Role We're seeking an experienced Senior Optimization Engineer to join our Data Science Team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of optimization models that power our software platform across applications including electricity markets, renewable energy, and battery energy storage systems. You will be responsible for developing production-grade optimization engines that solve complex operational and planning problems at scale. This role requires deep expertise in mathematical optimization, strong software engineering skills in Python, and experience building optimization models that integrate with production systems. The ideal candidate has significant experience in the energy industry, particularly electricity markets and battery storage optimization. This position emphasizes technical leadership, ownership of complex optimization projects, and collaboration across engineering, product, and commercial teams to deliver high-impact optimization solutions. Key Res

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SA
📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing

From $290.4K/yr

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Scale's LLM post-training platform team builds our internal distributed framework for large language model training. The platform powers MLEs, researchers, data scientists, and operators for fast and automatic training and evaluation of LLMs. It also serves as the underlying training framework for the data quality evaluation pipeline. Scale is uniquely positioned at the heart of the field of AI as an indispensable provider of training and evaluation data and end-to-end solutions for the ML lifecycle. You will work closely with Scale’s ML teams and researchers to build the foundation platform which supports all our ML research and development works. You will be building and optimizing the platform to enable our next generation LLM training, inference and data curation. If you are excited about shaping the future AI via fundamental innovations, we would love to hear from you! You will: Build, profile and optimize our training and inference framework. Collaborate with ML and research teams to accelerate their research and development, and enable them to develop the next generation of models and data curation. Research and integrate state-of-the-art technologies to optimize our ML system. Ideally you’d have: Passionate about system optimization Experience with multi-node LLM training and inference Experience with developing large-scale distributed ML systems Experience with post-training methods like RLHF/RLVR and related algorithms like PPO/GRPO etc. Strong software engineering skills, proficient in frameworks and tools such as CUDA, Pytorch, transformers, flash attention, etc. Strong written and verbal communication skills to operate in a cross functional team environment. Nice to haves: Demonstrated expertise in post-training methods and/or next generation use cases for large language models including instruction tuning, RLHF, tool use, reasoning, agents, and multimodal, etc. Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity,

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DU
📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing
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About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We are hiring a Software Integration Engineer for our Platform Integration team. This is a critical role with impact across the robot lifecycle, from manufacturing to daily operation. The Platform Integration team owns making sure the robot works as one cohesive system. The focus is on the interfaces between subsystems; this role in particular is focused on the software side handling interaction between: OS & software stack; firmware; networking; timing; and calibration. In this role, you will work cross functionally with our electrical, hardware, firmware, and autonomy engineers to support new functionality both in both hardware and software. This includes creating provisioning tools, functional tests, and supporting integration into the autonomy software stack. You will report to the Autonomy Platform Lead on our Autonomy Platform Team at DoorDash Labs. We expect this role to be hybrid with some time in-office and some time remote. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Play an integral role on a small and focused team. Lead system-level debug when an issue crosses subsystem boundaries or no single team can isolate it. Support early integration of new sensor and software component designs by identifying interface requirements, risks, dependencies and required checks. Design and maintain integration tests, test setups, and procedures to ensure subsystems, once combined, satisfy requirements and design intent. Build and maintain the mission-readiness checks used before manufacturing signoff, validation, field testing, or mission use for different robot platforms. Create the tools, checks, and debug guidance that Manufacturing Integration, Validation,

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HI
📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing

$179K – $252K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role HP IQ’s System Software team enables on-device experiences to take full advantage of our hardware capabilities.Our team collaborates with internal and external partners to develop unique solutions using cutting edge hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models. If you enjoy solving complex, interdisciplinary problems with a world-class team, we'd love to hear from you! What You Might Do Lead, grow and mentor a high-performing embedded software team in a startup environment Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex hardware/software integration issues Communicate technical vision, risks, and progress clearly to cross-functional and executive stakeholders Own system-level strategy, architecture, and technical direction across multiple products Drive execution of low-level driver and framework software development in C and C++ across multiple devices and operating systems Oversee integration between hardware and software, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams Guide performance, power, and thermal optimization efforts Balance hands-on technical invol

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