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Intersect

intersect.ai
Intersect is a clean energy and data centre infrastructure developer headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2016 by Sheldon Kimber. The company develops utility scale solar and battery storage, and builds AI data centres on a power first model where generation, storage, and compute sit together on one site as a self-contained microgrid. Its portfolio is concentrated in Texas and California, and Alphabet completed a multibillion dollar acquisition of the business in 2026.
intersect.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Smart Grid • Data Centers • Information Technology • Energy Storage • Solar Energy • Energy & Utilities • Est. 2016
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Smart Grid • Data Centers • Information Technology • Energy Storage • Solar Energy • Energy & Utilities • Est. 2016
$153k – $311k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 7+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (United States, Canada) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Lua
Rust
Structured Text
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Virtue AI

virtueai.com
Virtue AI builds security and safety guardrails for enterprise artificial intelligence applications and agents. Founded in 2024 by researchers from Berkeley, Illinois and Chicago, it combines red teaming with runtime protection. Its models screen inputs and outputs across text, code and images.
virtueai.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Cybersecurity AI • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Cybersecurity AI • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024
Verified live · 18 min ago 3 months ago

Principal Embedded Software Developer

$135k – $190k per year • Lead • In office (Burnaby, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Principal
C++
Cybersecurity
FortiGate
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Open 148 daysVerified live · 18 min ago 5 months ago

Principal Embedded Software Engineer

$140k – $190k per year • Lead • In office (Sunnyvale, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Principal
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FormFactor

formfactor.com
Form The Future!\r https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7raObJSdSrU&t=12s\r \r FormFactor enables today's most advanced semiconductor technology by providing the industry's broadest range of wafer test technologies and expertise. Our products are used to ...
formfactor.com • Beaverton • Boulder • Karlsruhe • Yokohama • Carlsbad • E-learning • Hardware • Semiconductors • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1993
Beaverton • Boulder • Karlsruhe • Yokohama • Carlsbad • E-learning • Hardware • Semiconductors • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1993
Verified live · 1 day ago 3 months ago

Sr Principal Signal Integrity Engineer

$116k – $152k per year • Equity • Lead • 8+ years expIn office (Beaverton, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
MATLAB
Python
Chips/EDA
Ansys SIwave
Ansys HFSS
Cadence Allegro
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Open 96 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 4 months ago

Principal Signal Integrity Engineer

Lead • 5+ years expIn office • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
MATLAB
Python
Chips/EDA
Ansys SIwave
Cadence Allegro
Ansys HFSS
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Arcadis

arcadis.com
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy organization for natural and built assets. We are over 34,000 people, active in more than 30 countries that generate €4.9 billion in revenues.
arcadis.com • Amersfoort • Makati • Bengaluru • London • Rotterdam • Science & Engineering • 5000+ employees
Amersfoort • Makati • Bengaluru • London • Rotterdam • Science & Engineering • 5000+ employees
Reposted ×3Open 77 days 3 months ago

Principal Electrical Engineer - SCIF

$170k – $220k per year • Lead • 15+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Washington, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Principal
AutoCAD
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Helion Energy

helionenergy.com
Helion Energy is an American fusion power research company developing commercial clean energy technology. The firm focuses on building magneto-inertial fusion generators designed to harvest electricity directly through magnetic induction without relying on traditional steam turbines. By aiming to produce zero-carbon power from abundant fuel sources like deuterium and helium-3, it strives to deliver scalable and cost-effective baseload energy for the grid.
helionenergy.com • HQ: Everett, United States • Science & Engineering • Energy & Utilities • Nuclear Energy
HQ: Everett, United States • Science & Engineering • Energy & Utilities • Nuclear Energy
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 3 months ago

Principal Power Electronics Packaging Engineer

$202k – $240k per year • Lead • In office (Everett, United States) • Full-Time • Principal
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Open 182 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago

Principal Electrical Engineer - RF

$235k – $270k per year • Lead • In office (Everett, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Principal
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Open 255 daysTop 25% pay 9 months ago

Principal Power Electronics Engineer

$235k – $270k per year • Lead • 12+ years expIn office (Everett, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
MATLAB
Chips/EDA
LTspice
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42dot

42dot.ai
42dot is a South Korean mobility technology company that serves as the global software center for Hyundai Motor Group. Founded in 2019, the company specializes in developing software-defined vehicle (SDV) architectures, autonomous driving software, and integrated mobility platforms. By combining in-vehicle operating systems, AI agents, and cloud data platforms, it aims to transform future transportation and smart mobility services.
42dot.ai • HQ: Seoul, South Korea • AI Agents • Automotive Manufacturing • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2019
HQ: Seoul, South Korea • AI Agents • Automotive Manufacturing • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2019
Top 25% payVerified live · 24 min ago 3 months ago

Principal, Electrical Engineer

$234k – $336k per year • Lead • 20+ years expIn office (Sunnyvale, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
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Magnet Forensics

magnetforensics.com
Magnet Forensics is a company that specializes in providing digital forensics and incident response tools. Their solutions, such as Magnet AXIOM and Magnet GrayKey, are used by law enforcement, military, intelligence, and enterprise organizations to recover, analyze, and manage digital evidence. They offer a wide range of tools to support digital investigations, including data extraction from mobile devices, video recovery, and workflow automation.
magnetforensics.com • Toronto • Ontario • Gothenburg • Waterloo • Ottawa • Homeland Security • National Security • Incident Response
Toronto • Ontario • Gothenburg • Waterloo • Ottawa • Homeland Security • National Security • Incident Response
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 3 months ago

Embedded Linux Engineering Lead

$148k – $198k per year • Lead • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
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Taara

taara.com
taara.com • HQ: Sunnyvale, United States • Broadband • Hardware • Wireless
HQ: Sunnyvale, United States • Broadband • Hardware • Wireless
Verified live · 7 hours ago 3 months ago

Principal Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC Engineer

$100k – $216k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 10+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Sunnyvale, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time • Principal
Git
Chips/EDA
Siemens Calibre
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Oxford Quantum Circuits

oxfordquantumcircuits.com
Oxford Quantum Circuits is a quantum hardware and Quantum-Compute-as-a-Service (QCaaS) enterprise. Headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom, and spun out of the University of Oxford, the deep-tech firm designs and manufactures superconducting quantum processors built on its proprietary, patented Coaxmon and 3D-integrated Dimon® qubit architectures.
oxfordquantumcircuits.com • HQ: Reading, United Kingdom • Hardware • Science & Engineering • Quantum Computing Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing
HQ: Reading, United Kingdom • Hardware • Science & Engineering • Quantum Computing Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing
Open 95 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 4 months ago

Principal Electronic Design Engineer

$75k – $202k per year (Estimated) • Lead • In office (Reading, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Principal
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Tenstorrent

tenstorrent.com
Tenstorrent is a Canadian semiconductor company founded in 2016 and led by veteran chip architect Jim Keller. It designs artificial intelligence accelerators and RISC-V processors, and sells intellectual property licences as well as hardware, with an open-source software stack. Investors and licensees include major automotive and technology groups seeking an alternative to closed accelerator ecosystems.
tenstorrent.com • HQ: Toronto, Canada • Embedded Systems • Hardware • Machine Learning • Est. 2016
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Embedded Systems • Hardware • Machine Learning • Est. 2016
Open 95 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

CPU Verification Fellow, RISC-V High-Performance Processor

$100k – $500k per year • Lead • In office (Austin, United States) • Full-Time • Principal
SystemVerilog
AI/ML
Edge AI
Chips/EDA
Formal Verification
UVM
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 months ago

System IP RTL Design Lead

$30k – $79k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 20+ years expIn office (Bengaluru, India) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
AI/ML
Edge AI
Chips/EDA
Formal Verification
UVM
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Open 553 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Design Verification Lead, AI Hardware

$100k – $500k per year • Lead • In office (Toronto, Canada) • Full-Time • Staff
SystemVerilog
AI/ML
Edge AI
Chips/EDA
Cocotb
UVM
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Adobe

adobe.com
Adobe is an American software company founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke and headquartered in San Jose, California. It created the PostScript and PDF formats and built the industry-standard creative toolset around Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects and InDesign, now delivered as the Creative Cloud subscription. The company also runs Document Cloud for electronic signatures and document workflows, Experience Cloud for enterprise marketing analytics and personalisation, and the commercially safe Firefly family of generative AI models.
adobe.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Sales & Marketing • Document Management • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Design & Creative • Graphic Design • Productivity Software • Digital Design • 5000+ employees • Est. 1982
HQ: San Jose, United States • Sales & Marketing • Document Management • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Design & Creative • Graphic Design • Productivity Software • Digital Design • 5000+ employees • Est. 1982
Open 97 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Principal Product Manager - Firefly Foundry Studio

$148k – $282k per year • Equity • Lead • 10+ years expIn office (San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Los Angeles, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
Diffusion Models
Fine-tuning
LoRA
Prompt Engineering
PEFT
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AFRY

afry.com
AFRY (AF Pöyry) is a Swedish-Finnish engineering, design, and advisory company providing services across energy, industry, infrastructure, and clean technology. The firm operates globally, helping public and private sector clients accelerate the transition toward a sustainable society. Combining technical expertise with digital solutions, it supports projects from early-stage strategy and environmental impact assessments to full-scale engineering execution.
afry.com • Vienna • Kuala Lumpur • Stockholm • Berlin • Essen • Cybersecurity • Professional Services • 5000+ employees
Vienna • Kuala Lumpur • Stockholm • Berlin • Essen • Cybersecurity • Professional Services • 5000+ employees
Open 101 dayVerified live · 19 min ago 4 months ago

Electrical Project Engineer/Lead Electrical Engineer

$70k per year • Lead • Remote/Hybrid (Rotterdam, Netherlands) • Full-Time • Senior • Dutch
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Open 144 daysVerified live · 19 min ago 5 months ago

FPGA - Specialist/Tech lead

$27k – $72k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 7+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Pune, India) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • English
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
VHDL
Chips/EDA
Xilinx Vivado
UVM
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Open 650 daysVerified live · 19 min ago 2 years ago

Lead Electrical Engineer - Site supervision team

Lead • In office (Greece) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • English
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Bloom Energy

bloomenergy.com
Bloom Energy manufactures solid oxide fuel cells that generate electricity on site from natural gas or hydrogen. Its Energy Server systems provide resilient baseload power for data centres, hospitals and factories. The company also builds electrolysers for hydrogen production.
bloomenergy.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Biotechnology • Information Technology • Energy & Utilities • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2001
HQ: San Jose, United States • Biotechnology • Information Technology • Energy & Utilities • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2001
Open 102 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Principal Electrical Engineer, NPI

$176k – $254k per year • Lead • 10+ years expIn office (Fremont, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
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Open 162 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago

Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer, Microgrid Modeling

$196k – $282k per year • Lead • 10+ years expIn office (San Jose, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
MATLAB
MATLAB
Simulink
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nVent

nvent.com
nVent Electric plc is a global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and established in 2018. The company designs, manufactures, and services a diverse portfolio of products including electrical enclosures, electric heat tracing systems, and specialized fastening and bonding solutions. It serves customers in the industrial, commercial, residential, energy, and infrastructure sectors through a network of manufacturing sites and sales offices located across the globe.
nvent.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Power Grid • Energy & Utilities • Data Centers • Information Technology • Industrial Automation • Manufacturing • Hardware • Electronic Components • 5000+ employees • Est. 2018
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Power Grid • Energy & Utilities • Data Centers • Information Technology • Industrial Automation • Manufacturing • Hardware • Electronic Components • 5000+ employees • Est. 2018
Open 104 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

$124k – $230k per year • Equity • Lead • 15+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Raleigh, Tucson, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
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Destinus

destinus.com
Destinus is a European defense manufacturer with a particular focus on scalable strike and air defence systems for European and allied armed forces. Interceptors, cruise systems, deep strike missiles for layered defence.
destinus.com • HQ: Zurich, Switzerland • Missiles • Military • Air Defense
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland • Missiles • Military • Air Defense
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 months ago

Lead Digital Signal Processing Engineer

$94k – $252k per year (Estimated) • Lead • In office (Zurich, Switzerland) • Staff
C++
MATLAB
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
RTOS
Robotics
Autonomous Navigation
Digital Twin
Inertial Navigation
Sensor Fusion
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Wayve

wayve.ai
Wayve is a British autonomous driving company founded in Cambridge in 2017 that trains end-to-end neural networks to drive rather than assembling hand-written rules around high-definition maps. Its AI Driver learns from camera video and can be deployed on standard vehicle sensor sets, which is what lets the company demonstrate driving in cities it has never mapped. Headquartered in London and backed by a one billion dollar SoftBank-led round plus investment from NVIDIA, Microsoft and Uber, it partners with carmakers to ship assisted driving software and is developing fully driverless deployments.
wayve.ai • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Transportation & Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Transportation & Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 4 months ago

Engineering Manager, Embedded Automotive Platform

$280k – $305k per year • Equity • Lead • In office (Sunnyvale, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
C++
Rust
Robotics
NVIDIA Drive
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Open 313 daysTop 25% pay 11 months ago

Principal Engineer, Embedded Vehicle Software

$348k – $458k per year • Equity • Lead • 15+ years expIn office (Sunnyvale, United States) • Principal
C++
Python
Rust
Robotics
NVIDIA Drive
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Rimkus

rimkus.com
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Rimkus delivers independent delay analysis, quantum assessment, forensic technical consulting, and project advisory services across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
rimkus.com • HQ: Houston, United States • Science & Engineering • Professional Services
HQ: Houston, United States • Science & Engineering • Professional Services
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 months ago

Principal Electrical Engineer - Global Energy Services

$80k – $174k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 15+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Vancouver, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
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Fractile

fractile.ai
Fractile is a London semiconductor company founded in 2022 that designs chips for large language model inference. Its in-memory computing architecture aims to remove the memory bottleneck that limits how fast transformer models can run. The company is backed by prominent artificial intelligence investors including a NVIDIA venture arm.
fractile.ai • HQ: London, United Kingdom • AI Infrastructure • Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: London, United Kingdom • AI Infrastructure • Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2022
Open 115 daysVerified live · 12 hours ago 4 months ago

Lead Physical Design Engineer

$76k – $203k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 10+ years expIn office (London, United Kingdom) • Master's Degree • Internship • Staff
Perl
Python
DevOps
HPC
Chips/EDA
Cadence Innovus
Siemens Calibre
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Formal Verification
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Open 115 daysVerified live · 12 hours ago 4 months ago

Lead Physical Design Engineer

$75k – $202k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 10+ years expIn office (Bristol, United Kingdom) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Staff
Perl
Python
DevOps
HPC
Chips/EDA
Cadence Innovus
Siemens Calibre
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Formal Verification
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Open 241 dayVerified live · 12 hours ago 8 months ago

Senior/Principal Physical Design Engineer

$76k – $203k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 8+ years expIn office (London, United Kingdom) • Master's Degree • Internship • Principal
Perl
Python
DevOps
HPC
Chips/EDA
Cadence Innovus
Siemens Calibre
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Formal Verification
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Diconium

diconium.com
Diconium is a global digital transformation partner and software engineering firm headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, it specializes in digital strategy, software development, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce solutions. The company helps organizations across automotive, industrial, and other sectors build digital products, optimize commerce platforms, and modernize their business models at scale.
diconium.com • HQ: Stuttgart, Germany • E-commerce Platforms • Information Technology • Software • 1001-5000 employees
HQ: Stuttgart, Germany • E-commerce Platforms • Information Technology • Software • 1001-5000 employees
Open 117 days 4 months ago

EM-IL-Hardware Lead

$28k – $76k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 8+ years expIn office (Bengaluru, India) • Full-Time • Staff
MATLAB
MATLAB
Simulink
Chips/EDA
LTspice
OrCAD
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$28k – $76k per year (Estimated) • Lead • In office (Bengaluru, India) • Full-Time • Staff
C++
C
Python
C++
CMake
Conan
STL
C
GCC
DevOps
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
GitHub
eBPF
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
Tcpdump
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d-Matrix

d-matrix.ai
d-Matrix is a semiconductor technology company based in Santa Clara, California, and was founded in 2019. The company develops specialized AI inference hardware and software platforms, including its Corsair platform and 3DIMC architecture, designed to accelerate generative AI workloads in data centers. It operates as a venture-backed enterprise serving global hyperscalers and enterprises with a focus on reducing latency, power consumption, and total cost of ownership for large language models.
d-matrix.ai • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Data Centers • Information Technology • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Semiconductors • Est. 2019
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Data Centers • Information Technology • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Semiconductors • Est. 2019
Open 117 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Principal Signal Integrity Engineer

$175k – $265k per year • Lead • 12+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Santa Clara, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
MATLAB
Python
Chips/EDA
Ansys HFSS
Ansys SIwave
Cadence Sigrity
Keysight ADS
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Open 152 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Principal Hardware Systems Engineer

$195k – $285k per year • Lead • 8+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Santa Clara, United States) • Full-Time • Principal
HPC
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