Tech Jobs in Peninsula
11,185 open positions · Updated daily
Peninsula sits between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, offering a unique blend of urban convenience and tech innovation. The region hosts over 300 high‑growth startups, from fintech leaders like Braintree in San Mateo to AI pioneers such as Petal. With climate‑friendly coastal breezes and easy access to major transit hubs, Peninsula draws talent who want both career momentum and a high quality of life.
Tech roles span software engineering, data science, cybersecurity, and product management across diverse sectors. Fintech firms like Braintree and Stripe (nearby Redwood City) dominate, while biotech powerhouses such as Gilead Sciences in South San Francisco and Seagen in Sunnyvale drive research and development. SaaS companies—Salesforce in San Mateo and Evergreen Software—and e‑commerce platforms like Petal keep the ecosystem thriving.
Living costs in Peninsula are some of the highest in the country; the median rent for a two‑bedroom apartment in San Mateo tops $3,200/month, and the median home price exceeds $1.5 million. Because of this, salary transparency helps candidates negotiate roles that match their financial expectations. With a median tech salary around $155,000, knowing the exact pay band can save years of uncertainty and ensure you get a package that reflects your experience and the local market.
Technical Program Manager
Company: Agtonomy
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 15, 2024
Agtonomy is a company that is pioneering advanced automation and AI solutions to transform agriculture and beyond. They are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join their team, who will be responsible for the engineering program management of new and existing autonomous vehicle systems. The company offers a range of benefits, including 100% covered medical, dental, and vision insurance, commuter benefits, and a 401k plan.
Software Engineer, Planning
Company: Agtonomy
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 15, 2024
Agtonomy is a company that is pioneering advanced automation and AI solutions to transform agriculture and beyond. They are looking for a Planning Engineer to join their Autonomy Team to develop algorithms that enable their vehicles to plan safe trajectories around dynamic and static obstacles.
Strategy and Finance Lead - Technical Programs
Company: Verkada Inc
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
Verkada is a leading cloud-based physical security platform company that offers a range of products and services to help organizations improve their security and efficiency. The company has a strong focus on innovation and has received significant funding to date.
Director of Engineering, ML Infrastructure
Company: Waymo
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 15, 2024
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to improve access to mobility and save lives. The company provides a set of tools to support machine learning workflow and is looking for a hybrid role to set direction for multiple teams.
Scientist I, Proteomics
Company: Cytokinetics
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
Cytokinetics is a biopharmaceutical company seeking a talented individual to generate and analyze proteomics datasets. The company is developing small molecule drug candidates to improve cardiac muscle function and contractility. The successful candidate will work independently to design and execute labelfree or labeled bottomup proteomics experiments and collaborate with other members of the Advanced Mass Spectrometry group.
Product Operations Manager
Company: Twist Bioscience
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 15, 2024
The Product Operations Manager POM will be an integral part of Twist Bioscience's Product Management team, enabling the team to deliver the optimal customer experience by ensuring operational excellence. The POM will focus on optimizing business systems and processes, facilitating cross-functional communication, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Retail Sales Assistant Manager
Company: Brilliant Earth
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
The job posting is for a Retail Sales Assistant Manager position at Brilliant Earth's Palo Alto showroom. The ideal candidate will have experience managing people in retail or direct-to-consumer sales, a proven track record of recruiting and growing high-performing teams, and a passion for helping people and creating positive customer service experiences.
Marketing Operations Manager
Company: BrightEdge
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
The Marketing Operations Manager role is responsible for managing systems, developing workflows, and optimizing customer journeys. The position requires experience in marketing operations, Salesforce, Eloqua, and Google Analytics, with a focus on automation, data management, and campaign execution.
Senior DevOps Platform Engineer
Company: Karius
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
Karius is a venture-backed life science startup that is transforming the way pathogens and other microbes are observed throughout the body. The company is building a cloud-based software platform that enables various unique and complex operations such as analyzing microbial genomic data to find pathogens, searching for unknown biomarkers signatures causing diseases, and serving physicians and researchers with lifesaving insight.
Research Associate II
Company: Cytokinetics
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
Cytokinetics is a biopharmaceutical company seeking a Research Associate II to support pharmacology efforts focused on muscle biology programs. The role requires a proactive individual to conduct and manage in vivo experiments to evaluate the efficacy of novel small molecule compounds in the treatment of cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases.
Sr. Product Designer, Moloco Ads
Company: Moloco
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations to grow and unlock the value of their unique first-party data. They provide a powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, allowing companies to stay independent and scale.
Senior Perception Software Engineer
Company: Zipline
Location: Peninsula
Posted Sep 16, 2024
Zipline is a company that aims to transform the way goods move by building an instant delivery and logistics system. They are looking for a software engineer with expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence to join their perception team.