Tech Jobs in Peninsula
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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.
Staff Controls Engineer
Company: Wisk
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
Wisk Aero is seeking a Staff Controls Engineer to join their Control Laws Development Team. The role involves designing, implementing, and analyzing controls algorithms, state estimation methods, and autonomous software for electric autonomous flight. The successful candidate will work on developing flight software models, improving existing models, and supporting problem-solving activities following flight tests. They will also contribute to developing new GNC tools using software best practices in MATLAB/Simulink. Requirements include a MS or PhD in Aeronautical/Aerospace or Mechanical/Electrical Engineering with at least 8 years of industry experience, strong knowledge of control theory, and handson experience creating control laws algorithms with MATLAB/Simulink skills. Wisk Aero offers a comprehensive benefits package and is committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity.
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Company: Visa Inc,
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 19, 2025
Visa is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer for Middleware Reliability Engineering to revolutionize how they deliver and maintain middleware products supporting critical payment systems. The role involves championing automation, designing robust solutions using Python, Java, and Go, leveraging Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure management, optimizing CICD pipelines, enhancing observability, driving innovation towards cloud-native solutions, and integrating AIML frameworks for operational intelligence. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in DevOps or SRE roles with a strong focus on middleware technologies, proficiency in monitoring tools, and a solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking protocols, and cloud platforms. The role offers meaningful impact, technical growth, professional development, work-life integration, and an inclusive environment.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - SRE & DevOps
Company: Genesis Therapeutics
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
Genesis Therapeutics is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to join their world-class computational team. The role involves maintaining and growing the multicloud compute infrastructure, building out configuration and procedures for monitoring resource allocation, and improving the internal job scheduling system. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining cloud infrastructure at scale, proficiency in Python, Bash, Terraform, and Kubernetes, and ideally experience with distributed ML training jobs. The company offers a high-impact opportunity to work on infrastructure used to accelerate the discovery of new medicines, a competitive salary, and equity. Genesis Therapeutics is a leader in AI for small molecule drug discovery, with a molecular AI platform called GEMS and collaborations with Eli Lilly and Genentech.
Senior Applications Scientist (I, II, III)
Company: Cellares
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
Cellares is looking for a Senior Applications Scientist with expertise in complex automation equipment to join their Research and Development team. The role involves interfacing between hardware engineering and process development groups, running cell therapy manufacturing processes, and designing experiments for continuous improvement. The ideal candidate should have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and experience in cell and gene therapy. Python scripting experience is a plus. The position offers a fast-paced, mission-driven environment with opportunities for growth and development.
Senior UX Designer
Company: PlayStation
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
PlayStation is recognized as a global leader in entertainment, producing a range of products and services including PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, and PlayStation Plus. The company strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. They are currently seeking a Senior UX Designer with a keen eye for details to play a key role in shaping the future of the world's largest game and content distribution platform. The ideal candidate should be a collaborator who can work hand in hand with a cross-functional team, and have a portfolio showcasing thoughtful, simple, deliberate, and intuitive design with extraordinary interaction, motion, and visuals.
Associate Financial Advisor
Company: Summitry
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 19, 2025
Summitry, a Bay Area wealth management firm, is seeking an Associate Financial Advisor (AFA) for a full-time, hybrid position. The AFA will lead client relationships, provide high-quality client service, and support Financial Advisors with larger clients. The role involves building, deepening, and retaining client relationships, preparing client meeting agendas, participating in client meetings, and contributing to the BD proposal process. The ideal candidate has 2 years of advisory-client relationship experience, strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills, and the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
Senior Director of Product Management
Company: Balsam Brands
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 19, 2025
Balsam Brands is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead a team of product managers in developing innovative solutions and features. The role involves creating and sharing a product vision, driving agile methodologies, identifying market opportunities, understanding customer needs, recruiting and mentoring a high-performing team, and working closely with various departments for successful product development and launch. The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role, a proven track record of driving agile transitions, and strong communication and interpersonal skills. Balsam Brands offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a cash-based incentive plan, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, parental leave, 401k with company match, and more. The company is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is an equal opportunity employer.
Supplier Quality Representative
Company: Wisk
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
Wisk Aero is seeking a Supplier Quality Representative to join their team in Mountain View, CA. The role involves ensuring suppliers maintain a high-performing Quality Management System, conducting audits, developing quality processes, and providing education on quality systems. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field, 8+ years of experience in Quality or Supplier Management, and 2+ years in the aerospace industry. Wisk Aero is committed to diversity and offers a comprehensive benefits package. The role requires frequent travel within the US and foreign countries.
Controller
Company: Luma
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
The company is seeking a Financial Controller with 9+ years of experience in financial management at a leading technology company or top-tier public accounting firm. The role involves overseeing all areas of operational accounting, including monthly reporting, accounts payable, payroll, financial audits, tax, and equity. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the company's long-term growth and success. Responsibilities include managing relationships with outsourced finance and accounting services, developing clear documentation for accounting policies, ensuring tax compliance, managing day-to-day operational accounting areas, researching and implementing new systems, and ensuring accurate financial statements reporting. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, organized, detail-oriented, and has a solid knowledge of US GAAP. Experience with accounting software and ERP systems is required.
Flight Director
Company: Maxar Technologies
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
Maxar Technologies is currently seeking a motivated and experienced Flight Director to join their team in Palo Alto, CA. The role involves monitoring the health, safety, and control of an active satellite during orbit raising and in-orbit testing campaigns. Responsibilities include configuring the Control Center for operations, communicating with remote ground station personnel, responding to anomalous satellite function events, and utilizing orbit determination and analysis data to plan for satellite configurations. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in aerospace, electrical, mechanical, or related engineering discipline, 8 years of experience, and previous satellite command and control experience. Preferred qualifications include a detailed understanding of satellite subsystems, ground station antenna functionality, and Earth orbits, as well as experience working with remote equipment sites and customer service experience. The base pay for this position within California is $120,000 - $200,000 annually.
Staff Network Engineer - On Prem & Cloud (Menlo Park, CA) - #4050
Company: GRAIL
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
GRAIL, a healthcare company, is seeking a Staff Network Engineer to design, manage, and troubleshoot its on-prem networking infrastructure. The role involves end-to-end ownership of network infrastructure, collaboration with security and IT teams, and alignment on a roadmap for scale and security. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in data center networking, wireless networking, and hybrid cloud environments, with proficiency in Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Meraki, and Juniper devices. Familiarity with Python, Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices is required. The role offers a competitive base pay, potential bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package. GRAIL is an Equal Employment Employer, committed to a drug-free workplace.
Reliability Engineer
Company: Dexterity
Location: Peninsula
Posted Jan 20, 2025
Dexterity is a rapidly growing robotics company, backed by top investors, that aims to transform the world through its breakthrough technology. The company specializes in warehouse automation, enabling robots to handle repetitive and physically demanding tasks, freeing humans for creative problem-solving. Dexterity's full-stack robotics systems are software-driven, hardware-agnostic, and have already picked over 15 million goods in production. They are seeking a versatile, hands-on Reliability Engineer to develop and execute reliability test plans, manage supplier reliability, and collaborate with external labs for reliability validation testing. The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of STEM experience, with at least 3 years in hands-on reliability engineering, and proficiency in tools like Reliasoft Weibull++, JMP, and coding for test automation.