1345 Professional Level Process Engineer jobs in San Jose,CA

$217,000—$326,000 USD

This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.

Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.

1+ years of direct software engineering management experience leading low-level systems, kernel, or embedded infrastructure teams.

5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with deep expertise in C/C++, or low-level systems languages.

Strong expertise in Linux kernel internals, device drivers, block layer design, memory layout/NUMA, and high-performance I/O pathways.

Experience delivering hardware-adjacent systems software that demands ultra-high reliability, crash resilience, fault isolation, and safe recovery under physical drive or link failures.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

The salary range for this role is 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Relocation assistance is available

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Top Secret - Current

Active and existing security clearance required on day 1

A Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM preferred) and a minimum of 8 years of prior engineering experience.

Experience in Systems Engineering and/or Systems Integration and Test

Experience coordinating across multiple disciplines, including Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, and/or Quality.

STEM preferred

Experience with Earn Value Management

Experience with Agile, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), and/or Digital Engineering

Experience creating integration and verification strategies.

Experience with DOORS

Understanding of Systems Engineering Product Development Cycle

Experience working in an integration lab, test facility, or in the field supporting integration and/or verification.

Experience generating technical documentation such as trade studies, test plans, procedures or technical reports.

Experience with requirement development and decomposition.

Bay Area Minimum: $122,000

Bay Area Mid:$158,000

Bay Maximum: $194,000

California Minimum: $116,000

California Mid:$150,000

California Maximum:$184,000

Discretionary incentive compensation programs

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or related field.

5+ years of hands-on data engineering, integration engineering, or analytics engineering experience, OR Master's degree and 6+ years.

Production experience building and operating Spark/PySpark pipelines.

Experience integrating enterprise systems (Salesforce, SAP, GIS, or equivalent) into an analytics platform.

Experience building and maintaining Power BI reports, including DAX and data model optimization.

SQL and Python proficiency.

Experience with multi-tier enterprise technology environments

Experience working with staff across diverse IT disciplines.

Experience building and implementing technology solutions involving enterprise applications, information/data models, integrations, spatial technologies, analytics, or solution architecture within a complex enterprise or utility environment.

Experience gathering and documenting business requirements.

Experience supporting utility, infrastructure, asset management, wildfire risk, or operational programs preferred.

Master's Degree

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Technology, architecture, data, GIS, cloud, or other job-related certification.

Experience with emerging technologies, spatial analytics, LiDAR, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or predictive analytics.

Experience leading technology pilots, proofs of concept, prototypes, or emerging technology evaluations.

Hands-on Palantir Foundry experience (Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, Ontology, Data Health).

Geospatial data engineering: ArcGIS layers, coordinate systems, spatial joins, LiDAR-derived datasets.

Experience productionizing statistical or machine learning models built by others.

Experience with several of the following: * Salesforce * Palantir Foundry * SAP * Esri ArcGIS * GIS / spatial analytics * LiDAR / remote sensing * Power BI * SQL * Python * Azure Data Services * Data governance and master data management * Machine learning and predictive analytics * Workflow automation * Enterprise application integration * Emerging technology evaluation and proof-of-concept development * PySpark / distributed data processing

$175,600.00 - $263,400.00

Competitive annual discretionary bonus program

Opportunity for annual RSU grants

Highly competitive benefits package

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

8+ years of professional software development experience.

Strong experience building and deploying full stack web applications.

Expert-level programming skills in Python.

Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.

Experience developing modern front-end applications using React.

Experience building REST APIs and microservices.

Strong understanding of software design patterns, object-oriented programming, and distributed systems.

Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.

Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.

Experience with Git-based development workflows.

Experience working in Linux environments.

Strong debugging, performance tuning

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Experience supporting EDA, CAD, semiconductor design, verification, or high-performance computing environments.

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, or cloud-native platforms.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar technologies.

Experience building data analytics and reporting solutions.

Experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Splunk, or observability platforms.

Experience with LSF, Slurm, or distributed job scheduling systems.

Experience developing AI/LLM-powered applications and integrations.

Experience with authentication frameworks such as OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, or Active Directory.

Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.

Terraform (preferred)

$180,000—$270,000 USD

This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.

Flexible time off

Wellness resources

Company-sponsored team events

Deep, hands-on experience in Linux kernel/Unix and device driver development, with a proven ability to ship high-performance, resilient products.

A strong foundation in computer architecture, operating systems, networking and core concepts like algorithms and data structures.

Experience in optimizing performance across various layers, including CPU instruction sets, NUMA, interrupt handling, and threading.

Minimum 5 years experience preferred

Experience upstreaming your Linux kernel code

Experience in storage system concepts and related protocols, especially NVME and PCIe

Working with hardware vendors to resolve difficult problems

In addition to C, professional experience using C++ is valued

Bay Area Minimum: $80,000

Bay Area Mid:$100,000

Bay Area Maximum: $120,000

California Miniumum:$76,000

California Mid:$95,000

California Maximum:$114,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E;'s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

The program provides comprehensive onboarding and training for entry-level engineers and ongoing professional development for transmission and substation engineering staff.

Bachelor's degree in instructional design, liberal arts, a related field, or equivalent work experience.

At least three years of experience in instructional design, communications, teaching, training, change management, or graphic design.

Relevant professional experience is required.

Degree in engineering, computer science, learning design, or instructional technology preferred.

At least three years of experience developing instructor-led, eLearning, or virtual courseware for substation and transmission engineering.

At least three years of experience developing training for the utility industry.

At least three years of technical writing experience.

Advanced knowledge of and proficiency in task analysis.

Proficiency in PowerPoint and Word.

At least three years of experience with Questionmark and Author-it.

Knowledge of safety practices and ability to incorporate PG&E;'s safety culture into daily work.