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Director and VP of engineering jobs in California
133 open roles for engineering directors and VPs in California as of Nov 15, 2026. Databricks, Roblox, Mercury, Semgrep and Zipline have the most. 11 are remote and the median advertised salary is $275K.
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- Director of EngineeringEndor Labs · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA—Lead and aboveC++CI/CDMicroservices
- Director, Machine Learning EngineeringChime · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, USA$269K - $373KLead and aboveMachine LearningAI
- Global Engineering Director - USNubank · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$340K - $380KHybridLead and aboveAgileEnglishSpanish
- Director, Data EngineeringChime · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, USA$269K - $373KLead and aboveLLM
- Senior Engineering Manager, ProductOtter.ai · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$230K - $290KSeniorPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Director, Industrial EngineeringAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$190K - $252KLead and aboveTableauPower BIComputer Vision
- Engineering Director, AI AgentsAircall.io, Inc. · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office$292K - $360KLead and abovePythonTypeScriptReact
- Executive Vice President, Engineering — Space, Defense & National SecurityVoyager Technologies, Inc. · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA$290K - $340KLead and above
- Director, Sales EngineeringNightfall Ai · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$270K - $300KHybridLead and abovePythonGCPAzure
- Director, Solutions EngineeringIntercom · 🇺🇸NYC, Remote; San Francisco, California$328K - $392KRemoteLead and aboveHelp deskCRM
- Head of Product EngineeringPlaud · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA—HybridLead and aboveLLMCI/CD
- Head of Platform EngineeringPlaud · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA—HybridLead and aboveGoJavaGCP
- Senior Engineering Manager, Ambient ProductCommure · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$240K - $275KHybridSeniorLLMNLP
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering - AI FoundationsRiot Games · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, USA—Lead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Director of Mechanical Engineering, Numenor (Reactor)Valar Atomics · 🇺🇸Torrance, California, United States$240K - $325KLead and abovePE licenseMechatronicsHVAC
- Engineering Manager/Senior Engineering ManagerBinti · 🇺🇸Binti HQ - San Francisco, CA$240K - $330KHybridSeniorReactRubyPostgreSQL
- Head of EngineeringDevelop Health · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$250K - $300KHybridLead and aboveLLM
- Senior Engineering Manager, DC BuyingAfresh · 🇺🇸Remote in the U.S., San Francisco, California, United States$204K - $276KRemoteSeniorPythonTypeScriptReact
- Director, Systems Engineering & Architecture - Hivemind EnterpriseShield AI · 🇺🇸San Diego, CA, US—Lead and abovePRDsSoldering
- Engineering Director, Agentic AI Data PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $400KHybridLead and abovePythonSQLPostgreSQL
- VP, EngineeringYugabyte · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$280K - $310KLead and abovePythonJavaPostgreSQL
- Senior Engineering Manager, Messaging ExperienceBraze · 🇺🇸San Francisco$189K - $320KSeniorTypeScriptReactRuby
- Head of EngineeringSolcoa · 🇺🇸Alameda, California—Lead and above
- Director, Engineering Program ManagementOura · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco, California$226K - $266KHybridLead and abovePerformance managementFirmwareHardware testing
- Senior Director of Engineering - Women's HealthOura · 🇺🇸Remote - Boston, Massachusetts; Remote - New York, New Yo…$262K - $308KRemoteLead and aboveAI agentsPerformance management
- Head of Product EngineeringReducto · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office$250K - $350KLead and aboveLLM
- Director of Electrical EngineeringBrelle · 🇺🇸Los Alamitos, CA$210K - $260KLead and above
- Senior Engineering Manager, PlatformFieldguide · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA or Remote (USA)$250K - $270KRemoteSeniorLLMKubernetesAWS
- Director of Software Engineering, CPBUPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$296K - $362KLead and aboveChange managementTest automation
- Senior Engineering Manager, Edge DeliveryFastly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO; New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA$228K - $274KSeniorRustC++Agile
- Vice President of EngineeringTreasury Prime · 🇺🇸🇨🇦San Francisco, California / Remote US / Remote Canada$275K - $320KRemoteLead and aboveReactPostgreSQLLLM
- Senior Engineering Manager - GTMMercury · 🇺🇸🇨🇦San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote…$239K - $299KRemoteSeniorTypeScriptNode.jsSnowflake
- Director of Platform EngineeringPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$340K - $425KLead and aboveGCPAWSIncident response
- Senior Engineering Manager, GuardianSemgrep · 🇺🇸San Francisco, Boston, New York, Denver$230K - $288KHybridSeniorAgileAI agentsApplication security
- Associate Director/Director, Inference EngineeringLila Sciences · 🇺🇸Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA$204K - $348KLead and aboveLLM
- Director of Engineering, Platform (Runtime & Stateful Systems)Sentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$300K - $450KHybridLead and aboveStorage systems
- VP of Engineering, Ground HardwareAnysignal · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA$240K - $325KLead and aboveMechatronicsRF engineering
- Senior Engineering Manager, AI PlatformSemgrep · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office$197K - $288KHybridSeniorLLMAgileAI
- Regional Director, Solutions Engineering, EnterpriseFactory · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA—Lead and aboveLLMSnowflakeCI/CD
- Engineering Director, Vercel for PlatformsVercel · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco—HybridLead and above
- Senior Engineering Manager, Backend PlatformHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$272K - $355KHybridSeniorPythonFastAPIFlask
- Director, Engineering Operations & StrategyMetropolis · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States$220K - $260KLead and aboveAWSContract negotiationM&A
- Senior Engineering Manager, Federal & Regulated InfrastructureSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote)$210K - $315KRemoteSeniorCI/CDLLM evaluationInfrastructure as code
- VP of EngineeringFlock Homes · 🇺🇸San Francisco or Denver$250K - $300KLead and above
- Director of Engineering, Data LabsInvisible Technologies · 🇺🇸New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid$252K - $300KHybridLead and aboveLLMAI agentsReinforcement learning
- Head of Engineering, AI PlatformAiDASH, Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California, United States$300K - $350KLead and aboveKubernetesAWSRAG
- Head of EngineeringMintlify · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $400KLead and above
- Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Digital Product EngineeringScout Motors · 🇺🇸Charlotte, North Carolina, United States; San Ramon, Cali…$245K - $298KLead and aboveRAG
- Director of EngineeringZania · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$230K - $280KLead and aboveLLMAI agentsLLM evaluation
- Director of EngineeringNox Metals · 🇺🇸Los Angeles$200K - $350KLead and aboveMachine Learning
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Who is hiring for director and VP of engineering roles in California
Where director and VP of engineering roles in California are
- 🇺🇸United States133
- 🇺🇸California133
- 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area109
- 🇺🇸New York, NY14
- 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA9
- 🇺🇸Denver, CO5
- 🇨🇦Canada5
- 🇺🇸Boston, MA5
- 🇺🇸Portland, OR4
- 🇺🇸Seattle, WA2
A role that lists several places is counted in each of them.
What director and VP of engineering roles in California pay, by level
| Level in the title | Median advertised salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | $269K | 34 |
| Lead and above | $285K | 75 |
Medians of the midpoints of advertised yearly US-dollar ranges; a level needs at least 15 such roles. Advertised, not verified pay.
Questions about director and VP of engineering jobs in California
- How many director and VP of engineering jobs in California are open right now?
- There are 133 open director and VP of engineering jobs in California at 106 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 17 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most director and VP of engineering jobs in California?
- Right now the most openings are at Roblox (5), Databricks (5), Mercury (4), Semgrep (3) and Zipline (3). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote director and VP of engineering jobs in California?
- 11 of the 133 open director and VP of engineering jobs in California (8%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- What do director and VP of engineering jobs in California pay?
- The median advertised salary is $275K, based on 109 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $258K and $316K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay. Most employers here are technology companies, so the figures run above the wider market for the same work.
- Is it hard to get one of the director and VP of engineering jobs in California?
- 0 of the 133 open director and VP of engineering jobs in California (0%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 83 postings that state experience, the median asks for 8 years. 106 companies are hiring and 17 roles were posted in the last seven days. Matching your resume to the skills each posting names helps most; the free resume builder shows the match.
- How is AI changing director and VP of engineering jobs in California?
- 42 of the 133 open director and VP of engineering jobs in California (32%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often LLM, Machine Learning, AI. Employers still list 133 such roles today at 106 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do director and VP of engineering jobs in California ask for?
- Most often LLM (22%), Python (19%), AWS (18%), Kubernetes (14%), CI/CD (14%) of the 133 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in director and VP of engineering jobs in California?
- Senior Engineering Manager (31), Director (26), Director of Engineering (15), Head of Engineering (12), Engineering Director (7): the most common titles among the 133 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are director and VP of engineering jobs in California in demand in 2026?
- 133 director and VP of engineering jobs in California are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 106 companies, 0.1% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 17 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $275K. 11 (8%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for director and VP of engineering jobs in California?
- Open a job and press “Apply on company site”. You go straight to the employer's own careers page and apply there. Jobs Every Hour needs no account and charges nothing for applying.
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