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Staff & Principal Startup Jobs

Staff and principal roles at startups building the future — set technical direction.

2,398 open roles · Updated Sep 28, 2026

2,398 jobs

CesiumAstro Staff Electrical Engineer I - Phased Array Unit Lead

Austin, TX

Job type: Electrical & Firmware
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Aerospace

Rippling Staff Product Security Engineer

Seattle, WA · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA

Job type: Software & Data
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI App

Harvey Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

San Francisco, CA

$238k–$290k / year

Job type: Infrastructure, IT, & Security
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI App

Databricks Principal Research Scientist – Scaling

San Francisco, CA

$280k–$350k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI App

Relativity Space Principal Mechanical Engineer, Factory Automation

Long Beach, CA

$185k–$277k / year

Job type: Mechanical & Physical Systems
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Aerospace

Nvidia Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

$248k–$397k / year

Job type: Infrastructure, IT, & Security
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Compute & Semiconductors

Blue Origin Principal Avionics Hardware Engineer

Denver, CO

Job type: Electrical & Firmware
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Aerospace

Meta Staff Research Scientist, FAIR (RL / LLM's)

France

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI Research

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Anduril Industries Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Fury

Ashville, OH

$143k–$191k / year

Job type: Manufacturing & Production
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Defense

Anthropic Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Acceleration

San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA

$405k–$485k / year

Job type: Software & Data
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI Research

Shield AI Staff Engineer, Fuel Systems (R5900)

Dallas, TX · Washington, D.C.

$146k–$219k / year

Job type: Mechanical & Physical Systems
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Defense

Crusoe Energy Staff Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, Deployment

Warrenton, MO

$148k–$170k / year

Job type: Electrical & Firmware
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Energy & Climate

Waymo Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation

United Kingdom

$208k–$218k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Transportation

CesiumAstro Staff Communication Systems Engineer

Melbourne, FL

Job type: Product, Programs, & Systems
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Aerospace

Rippling Staff Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend) - Transition & Termination

New York, NY · San Francisco, CA

Job type: Software & Data
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI App

Harvey Staff Product Designer

New York, NY

$200k–$260k / year

Job type: Marketing & Design
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI App

Databricks Sr Staff Production Engineer- Public Sector

$195k–$269k / year

Job type: Infrastructure, IT, & Security
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI App

Relativity Space Staff Mechanical Engineer, Factory Automation

Long Beach, CA

$143k–$215k / year

Job type: Mechanical & Physical Systems
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Aerospace

Nvidia Principal Software Engineer - Networking - DGX Cloud

Remote · Santa Clara, CA

$272k–$431k / year

Job type: Infrastructure, IT, & Security
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Compute & Semiconductors

Blue Origin Technical Program Manager, SoC Development – TeraWave

San Diego, CA

Job type: Product, Programs, & Systems
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Aerospace

Meta Product Design Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · Redmond, WA

Job type: Mechanical & Physical Systems
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI Research

Anduril Industries Staff Technical Program & Manufacturing Engineer, Display Systems

Taiwan

Job type: Product, Programs, & Systems
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Defense

Anthropic Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

$405k–$485k / year

Job type: Software & Data
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: AI Research

Shield AI Staff Supplier Development Engineer - Structures & Welding (R5984)

Seattle, WA · Washington, D.C.

$170k–$260k / year

Job type: Supply Chain & Procurement
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Defense

Crusoe Energy Staff Software Engineer, Systems Engineering Focus

San Francisco, CA

$210k–$255k / year

Job type: Software & Data
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Energy & Climate

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