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Lead Software Engineer 2 in United States

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Hiring trend

-78.9%

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Remote options

15.8%

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Typical salary

$177.2K – $177.2K/yr

Based on 32 salary observations

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📍 United States· Remote
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary CVS Health's Adjudication & Client Experience Engineering organization is seeking a motivated and highly skilled Senior Analyst - Software Development Engineering to join our Application Production Support team. This role will support critical business applications by providing production support, troubleshooting technical issues, and contributing to ongoing application enhancements and stability improvements. As a Sr. Analyst, you will work closely with Lead Engineers, Software Development Engineers, Product Owners, QA teams, and business stakeholders to investigate and resolve production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement code fixes. You will be responsible for supporting enterprise applications built on Java, Angular, APIs, and Cloud platforms while ensuring the reliability and performance of systems that serve our PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Management) business. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving production challenges, developing software solutions, and collaborating within a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will contribute to application support activities, system enhancements, and continuous improvement initiatives while growing their technical and business domain expertise. Required Qualifications 5-8 years of experience in software development, application s

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📍 Work At Home Connecticut, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. CVS Health is seeking an SDET Manager to lead Quality Engineering and software delivery transformation across the Medicare Sales & Acquisition ecosystem. This role is critical to modernizing how we build, test, and deliver software, including embedding AI-driven capabilities into the SDLC. You will translate business workflows (Sales, Enrollment, Broker, and Telesales) into scalable, automated testing solutions that improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for driving test automation strategy, enabling intelligent SDLC pipelines, and building a high-performing engineering team aligned to enterprise goals. This role will also help shape the team's transition toward AWS-native test infrastructure and agent-orchestrated cycles, positioning the organization to scale automation alongside delivery volume in future years. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and implementation of AI-augmented Quality Engineering solutions — including agentic test generation, self-healing frameworks, and AI-assisted defect analysis — advancing the SDLC toward an AI-driven Automated Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC) Drive the migration of automation frameworks and test data management onto AWS-native services (e.g., Bedrock for model orchestration, Lambda/Step Functions for event-driven test pipelines), enabling

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📍 Work At Home Illinois, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +340.2%

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. CVS Health is seeking an SDET Manager to lead Quality Engineering and software delivery transformation across the Medicare Sales & Acquisition ecosystem. This role is critical to modernizing how we build, test, and deliver software, including embedding AI-driven capabilities into the SDLC. You will translate business workflows (Sales, Enrollment, Broker, and Telesales) into scalable, automated testing solutions that improve speed, quality, and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for driving test automation strategy, enabling intelligent SDLC pipelines, and building a high-performing engineering team aligned to enterprise goals. This role will also help shape the team's transition toward AWS-native test infrastructure and agent-orchestrated cycles, positioning the organization to scale automation alongside delivery volume in future years. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and implementation of AI-augmented Quality Engineering solutions — including agentic test generation, self-healing frameworks, and AI-assisted defect analysis — advancing the SDLC toward an AI-driven Automated Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC) Drive the migration of automation frameworks and test data management onto AWS-native services (e.g., Bedrock for model orchestration, Lambda/Step Functions for event-driven test pipelines), enabling

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -13.7%

NVIDIA's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern deep learning - the next era of computing - with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as &#34;the AI computing company.&#34; We're looking to grow our company and establish teams with the most thoughtful people in the world. We are looking for an excellent Senior Engineering Manager to lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering end-to-end manageability firmware for NVIDIA's next generation Data Center Compute Systems. This role owns HGX product line and OpenBMC-based management firmware and MCU firmware components in data center platforms, including architecture, execution, quality, reliability, telemetry, and customer readiness. We are seeking an experienced senior leader with strong technical depth, broad system perspective, and a proven ability to lead large teams through complex product cycles. This role is onsite in Santa Clara, CA, USA. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! What you'll be doing: Lead a large firmware engineering organization delivering OpenBMC based firmware and MCU firmware for next-generation Data Center Compute Systems. Own HGX platform as a lead for Firmware and System software readiness working across the organization. Define and drive the long-term firmware roadmap, balancing architectural innovation with product execution and delivery milestones. Drive architecture strategy across BMC, MCU, platform software, manageability, health management, and data center firmware interfaces. <spa

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -13.7%

As one of the technology industry's most desirable employers, NVIDIA has been redefining accelerated computing, computer graphics and leading the Artificial Intelligence revolution. NVIDIA's innovation is fueled by its great technology—and amazing people. We are seeking a Senior Silicon and System Product Lead to influence, innovate and take our next generation products to the market. As part of the Silicon Solutions Team, we architect and deliver groundbreaking system solutions that integrate all aspects of the system from silicon design, software design to operations and final deployment in multiple market segments that NVIDIA serves. This position offers an unique opportunity to collaborate with multiple organizations in the company and grow your career in a high impact role. We need a passionate, hard-working and creative individual to lead the products all the way from market analysis to delivering the features on the final product. What you'll be doing: Drive product performance and power targets, trade-off features/configurations and provide innovative solutions to complex silicon and system level problems. Evaluate new market segments and use cases; translate market requirements to engineering problem statements and metrics. Innovate Performance, power, yield and quality optimizations and features for the world’s fastest power-shipping products in the GPU and SoC market segments spanning gaming, automotive, datacenter and DL/AI. Develop methodologies and requirements for multi-functional teams to drive silicon and system product features to production. Incorporate productization feedback to improve the next generation. Lead the team for feature requirements and schedule from architecture to silicon phase of projects. Work alongside system architects, designers, marketing teams, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, HW/S

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -84.1%

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We are seeking an experienced SoC Architect to lead the definition and development of next-generation custom AI silicon for edge deployments. This role will be responsible for shaping the architecture of highly efficient, high-performance SoCs optimized for machine learning inference and on-device intelligence. You will work cross-functionally with internal engineering teams and external ecosystem partners to translate product requirements into scalable silicon solutions, driving execution from concept through delivery. In this role you will: Define the architecture and technical roadmap for custom SoCs targeted for edge applications. Drive system-level tradeoff analysis across compute, memory, interconnect, power, thermal, and cost constraints. Architect energy-efficient ML compute subsystems optimized for inference workloads and real-world deployment environments. Collaborate with internal hardware, software, systems, and product teams to align architecture with platform needs. Partner with external silicon vendors, IP providers, and manufacturing partners to execute development plans. Lead hardware/software co-design efforts to maximize performance per watt and end-to-end system efficiency. Guide implementation teams through microarchitecture, RTL development, validation, and bring-up phases. Operate effectively in agile development environments and help teams deliver against aggressive schedules and milestones. You might thrive in this role if: Proven exper

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.3%

From $162K/yr

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This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who wants to actively shape how Engineering, one of the most important parts of how Datadog develops its people. You'll sit at the center of Datadog's biggest talent bets for Engineering: how we build leaders, define career paths and org design, evolve performance, move talent internally, and plan succession for our most critical roles. You’ll own this work end to end, from the first framing conversation with senior leaders through to delivering a program running at scale. AI is changing how Engineering builds software, and it is changing how People builds the programs that support Engineering too. This role sits at the centre of both: understanding how AI is reshaping engineering roles, skills and structures, and building AI-powered solutions within People to keep pace. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Design and lead complex talent programmes for Engineering, spanning leadership capability, career architecture, org design, performance, internal mobility and succession for critical roles. Partner directly with PBPs and senior leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear programme goals, design principles and success measures. Help Engineering and People understand and respond to how AI is reshaping roles, skills and ways of working, and translate that shift into practical talent and org design choices. Stay hands-on from concept through to adoption: this is a build and run role, not a strategy and handover role. Work across Enablement, Learning, People Analytics and People Systems so what you build scales and embeds into core people processes. Equip PBPs with frameworks, tools and executive-ready narratives that support real adoption in the business. Operate in ambiguity and influe

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

From $159.9K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Strategic Sourcing Manager you will lead the contract and pricing negotiations of software and tools. In addition, you will work with cross-functional teams to ramp efficiently. You will demonstrate domain expertise in software licensing modeling and contract negotiations. You Will: Assist and support stakeholders with the vendor review process for BATNA purposes and articulating business justification. Demonstrate ability to analyze and interpret spend and cost data, including understanding of Total Cost of Ownership Work collaboratively across Roblox and particularly within the Roblox Corp Eng organization. Work closely with stakeholder teams to forecast the Technology needs for our rapidly growing company Showcase your strong contracting experience and understanding of business risks and address them on legal documents with potential suppliers. Work with our Legal team to manage the review and approval of Master Service Agreements, Terms of Service, NDAs, and End User License Agreements with our vendors prior to business being initiated. Drive price and term negotiation processes to ensure that Roblox’s pricing is best in class and with risks mitigated on contract Drive

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -89.3%

From $162K/yr

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This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who wants to actively shape how Engineering, one of the most important parts of how Datadog develops its people. You'll sit at the center of Datadog's biggest talent bets for Engineering: how we build leaders, define career paths and org design, evolve performance, move talent internally, and plan succession for our most critical roles. You’ll own this work end to end, from the first framing conversation with senior leaders through to delivering a program running at scale. AI is changing how Engineering builds software, and it is changing how People builds the programs that support Engineering too. This role sits at the centre of both: understanding how AI is reshaping engineering roles, skills and structures, and building AI-powered solutions within People to keep pace. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Design and lead complex talent programmes for Engineering, spanning leadership capability, career architecture, org design, performance, internal mobility and succession for critical roles. Partner directly with PBPs and senior leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear programme goals, design principles and success measures. Help Engineering and People understand and respond to how AI is reshaping roles, skills and ways of working, and translate that shift into practical talent and org design choices. Stay hands-on from concept through to adoption: this is a build and run role, not a strategy and handover role. Work across Enablement, Learning, People Analytics and People Systems so what you build scales and embeds into core people processes. Equip PBPs with frameworks, tools and executive-ready narratives that support real adoption in the business. Operate in ambigu

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -84.1%

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking a Lead Robotics Safety Engineer to define and lead the product safety strategy for our robotics program. You will work closely with leadership, engineering, research, legal, and policy teams to ensure safety is integrated into our products from the earliest stages of development through deployment. This role combines product safety, regulatory strategy, systems engineering, and risk management. You will help shape how we think about safety across robotic platforms, influence product architecture and development decisions, and ensure our systems are designed to meet both current and emerging regulatory expectations. You will serve as a subject matter expert on robotics safety standards, regulatory frameworks, and safety engineering practices while helping establish the long-term safety strategy for our products and organization. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. This role will be expected to be in office 4 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will Define and lead the product safety strategy for robotic systems across the development lifecycle. Monitor and influence emerging regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and policy developments relevant to robotics and autonomous systems. Partner with engineering teams to translate safety requirements into product architecture, design decisions, and engineering requirements. Develop and maintain system-level hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety cases for robotic products. Establish safety requirements, verification strat

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📍 Colorado Springs, Colombia, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -20.1%

Lead Systems Engineer - Phantom Works Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer (Level 4) to support the Space Battle Management, Command and Control (SBMC2) programs in Colorado Springs, CO or Berkeley, MO . The Systems Engineer will perform as part of a high-performing team and have the opportunity to contribute to the development and delivery of innovative software solutions in an agile software development environment interfacing with internal and external stakeholders; to include a Joint Industry partnership Team (JIPT) and Working Groups, contributing to the design and development of next generation ground command and control capabilities. As a member of the Boeing team, you will be responsible for key portions of our development lifecycle, from idea creation and development, all the way through to maintenance and support of the customer’s delivered system. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to make an impact on the results of our projects. We offer a collaborative mentoring environment where you have the opportunity to learn from others and be a mentor to others. Position Responsibilities Support definition of requirements, interfaces, and concept of operations through supporting and/or chairing working group meetings. Understand and communicate prioritization of efforts to multi-disciplinary team. Think abstractly and see the big picture while evaluating technical details Perform technical analyses to develop and validate models of system behavior; identify solutions to complex problems. Serve as a direct interface to both internal and external customers Conduct and support trade s

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📍 Bethesda, Moldova, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +400%

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for Cyber Security Engineer—Technical Lead in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area . Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos , we offer competitive benefits , including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security! Job Summary This role is responsible for protecting the customer’s information systems and networks from potential cyber-attacks. The Cyber Security Engineer– Technical Lead will serve in a hands-on “player-coach&#34; capacity, dedicating approximately 75% of time to direct technical engineering, troubleshooting, and implementation work, while providing technical leadership and coordination across the security team. The candidate must display an excellent understanding of technology and utilization of Firewalls (Security Groups), VPNs, Data Loss Prevention (DPS), IDS/IPS, Web-Proxy, Security tools, and Security Audits. Candidate will work directly with Team leads, developers, operations personnel, and other Technical Leads throughout a DevSecOps life cycle both on policy and technical implementation of technologies. This is not a supervisory management role. Success in this position is measured by individual technical contribution and resolution of complex security issues, in addition to technical leadership impact. Primary Responsibilities: Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security controls and tools used to protect enterprise systems and networks, while identifying opportunitie

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📍 California, United States of America, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -5.2%

$162K – $252K/yr

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Lead Firmware Engineer Description - 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 System Software team is responsible for firmware, operating system software, hardware-accelerated algorithms, and core developer frameworks supporting our products. We serve as the glue between our hardware teams and our higher-level software teams, and delight in finding creative solutions to complex, interdisciplinary problems as we bring our product visions to life. As a firmware engineer on our team, you will develop firmware for low-power embedded microcontrollers to coordinate sensors, ensure securi

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -84.1%

About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve people's lives. About the Role We are seeking a lead thermal simulation engineer to help accelerate the design and development of next-generation robotic systems through modeling, simulation, and analysis. You will work closely with mechanical, electrical, controls, and robotics engineers to evaluate designs before hardware is built, identify risks early, and guide critical architecture decisions. This role spans structural and thermal analysis and design across robotic subsystems including actuators, mechanisms, structures, electronics, and integrated systems. You will develop simulation workflows that improve engineering velocity, increase confidence in design decisions, and help us build more capable, reliable, and manufacturable robotic platforms. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. This role will be expected to be in office 4 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Perform thermal simulations to assess heat generation, cooling strategies, thermal interfaces, and system-level thermal performance Partner with mechanical, electrical, and controls engineers to influence design decisions early in development Build simulation models to evaluate robotic actuators, transmissions, mechanisms, structures, soft goods, and integrated assemblies Correlate simulation results with physical testing and develop methodologies to improve model accuracy Support architecture trade studies by evaluating design concepts before hardware is built Develop simulation workflows, standards, and best practices that scale across the robotics o

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📍 Louisville, Cayman Islands, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +310%

Become a part of our caring community Humana is seeking a self-driven and collaborative Lead Engineer to join our Interactive Voice Response (IVR) team. In this role, you will deliver innovative IVR solutions and develop robust omnichannel APIs for our enterprise platforms. You will have the opportunity to drive the success of a high-impact, customer-facing application within a Fortune 50 company, working closely with multiple teams throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Lead Engineer –Omnichannel Humana is seeking a self-driven and collaborative Lead Engineer to join our Omnichannel team. In this role, you will design, develop, secure, and enhance enterprise APIs that support high-impact, member facing, applications across Humana's digital and voice channels. This role offers the opportunity to modernize and strengthen existing API capabilities while helping deliver resilient, scalable, and secure omnichannel solutions within a Fortune 50 organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable Omnichannel APIs that support enterprise applications and customer-facing capabilities. Enhance the security, resiliency, performance, and reliability of existing APIs through modernization, improved architecture, observability, testing, and operational controls. Apply AI and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate development, improve quality, automate testing, enhance documentation, and identify opportunities for optimization. Partner with architecture, security, cloud, product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver secure, resilient, and enterprise-aligned API solutions. Collaborate with agile teams to plan, track, and deliver API enhancements, platform improvements, and cloud-based capabilities. Develop proofs of

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