Production Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA
Production Engineer jobs in San Francisco concentrate across semiconductor design, advanced manufacturing, and cloud infrastructure, with demand anchored in SoMa, the Mission Bay biotech corridor, and the Dogpatch industrial district. Employers hiring right now include Fluidstack, CRUSOE, and HARVEY. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Location
San Francisco, CA; Austin, TX; New York, NY; Seattle, WA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Operations
Compensation
- $224K – $344K • Offers Equity
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings. Our compensation package includes base salary, equity for all full time roles, benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans.
This range reflects a good-faith estimate based on the applicable pay scale, the range previously established for this role, the compensation of individuals currently in equivalent positions, and/or the budgeted amount for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, qualifications, and other factors.
We welcome compensation discussions if this range doesn't meet your requirements. Outstanding candidates may be eligible for adjusted terms, plus meaningful equity that ensures you benefit directly from the company's long-term performance.
Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.
About Fluidstack
We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.
We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.
We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!
How We Operate
Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.
The Data Center Operations Team
Examples of key problems the team is working on
Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs.
Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.
Role Scope
Lead the IaaS team delivering compute to customers: provisioning, isolation, and lifecycle across the fleet.
Own the platform layer between bare metal and customer workloads: images, networking, and storage integration.
Build self-service capability so customer onboarding shrinks from weeks to hours.
Set platform SLOs and the engineering priorities that hold them.
What We're Looking For
The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
You've led teams building IaaS or cloud platform layers.
You've designed multi-tenant isolation that customers trusted with real workloads.
You've cut onboarding or provisioning time by an order of magnitude somewhere, and can say how.
You balance platform roadmap against operational load honestly.
Bonus: Bare-metal provisioning. GPU virtualization and passthrough. Kubernetes. Cloud networking.
We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email careers@fluidstack.io with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.
Compensation Range: $224K - $344KLocation
San Francisco, CA; Austin, TX; New York, NY; Seattle, WA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Operations
Compensation
- $224K – $344K • Offers Equity
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings. Our compensation package includes base salary, equity for all full time roles, benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans.
This range reflects a good-faith estimate based on the applicable pay scale, the range previously established for this role, the compensation of individuals currently in equivalent positions, and/or the budgeted amount for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, qualifications, and other factors.
We welcome compensation discussions if this range doesn't meet your requirements. Outstanding candidates may be eligible for adjusted terms, plus meaningful equity that ensures you benefit directly from the company's long-term performance.
Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.
About Fluidstack
We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.
We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.
We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!
How We Operate
Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.
The Data Center Operations Team
Examples of key problems the team is working on
Operate at the scale of a nation, not a building. The fleet you run will draw more power than some countries, on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs.
Fly the plane while it's being built. Sites come online in pieces, and you keep the live ones running flawlessly while construction continues around them.
Write the playbook, don't inherit it. No prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard.
Role Scope
Lead the IaaS team delivering compute to customers: provisioning, isolation, and lifecycle across the fleet.
Own the platform layer between bare metal and customer workloads: images, networking, and storage integration.
Build self-service capability so customer onboarding shrinks from weeks to hours.
Set platform SLOs and the engineering priorities that hold them.
What We're Looking For
The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
You've led teams building IaaS or cloud platform layers.
You've designed multi-tenant isolation that customers trusted with real workloads.
You've cut onboarding or provisioning time by an order of magnitude somewhere, and can say how.
You balance platform roadmap against operational load honestly.
Bonus: Bare-metal provisioning. GPU virtualization and passthrough. Kubernetes. Cloud networking.
We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email careers@fluidstack.io with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.
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Who's Hiring
- Fluidstack44
- CRUSOE13
- HARVEY13
- ANZA6
- KUNZ6K
Top Industries Hiring
- Science & Research
Production Engineer Jobs in San Francisco: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a production engineer job in San Francisco?
Target San Francisco's strongest hiring sectors: semiconductor and hardware companies in SoMa, biotech manufacturers in Mission Bay, and cloud infrastructure teams in the Financial District. Hands-on experience with yield optimization, process control, or reliability engineering stands out here. Networking through local IEEE chapters and Bay Area manufacturing meetups gives candidates a real edge in a market where referrals move faster than cold applications.
Which companies hire production engineers in San Francisco?
San Francisco production engineer roles are posted by Fluidstack, CRUSOE, and HARVEY and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. The local market skews toward high-tech hardware firms, biotech device manufacturers, and software-defined infrastructure companies, many of which maintain production and reliability engineering teams directly in the city rather than offshoring them to the wider Bay Area.
Are there remote production engineer jobs in San Francisco?
Yes, though availability depends heavily on the role type: hands-on process and manufacturing positions rarely go fully remote, while reliability, DevOps-adjacent, and analytical production engineering roles are far more flexible. About 50% of production engineer openings tied to San Francisco are remote or hybrid as of September 2026. The most remote-friendly work in this market tends to be software production engineering at cloud and SaaS companies based in SoMa and the Financial District.
How can I get a production engineer job in San Francisco with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in San Francisco is targeting associate or junior production engineer roles at mid-size hardware and biotech startups in Mission Bay and Dogpatch, which hire more entry-level talent than large established manufacturers. Internships at UCSF-affiliated medtech companies or contract roles at semiconductor firms in SoMa build the hands-on process experience local employers prioritize. A strong capstone project demonstrating yield analysis or process improvement is noticed in this market.
Which industries hire the most production engineers in San Francisco?
Most production engineer openings in San Francisco sit in Science & Research, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. San Francisco's concentration of hardware startups, biotech device manufacturers in Mission Bay, and cloud infrastructure companies creates consistent demand across both physical process engineering and software reliability engineering, making the city's market broader than most coastal metros of comparable size.
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