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Hand-picked for a Staff SWE who leads MCP/LLM platform work and ships modem systems — and wants base over $200k.

Pick #1 NOW

ServiceNow

Staff Software Engineer, AI Futures

San Diego, CA·Hybrid — 2 days in office

$147.3k – $257.8k base + equity

You lead MCP-based platform services and LLM-driven configuration workflows at MediaTek as Staff — this role is literally “lead design and development of AI-powered agents.”
You ship platform services used by tier-one OEMs; they want production-quality, reusable GenAI agents that scale across business units.
Prompt engineering and GenAI are listed as core qualifications — that’s your current day job.
Mentoring and cross-team technical leadership as primary US technical lead maps directly to the role.

GenAI + prompt engineeringAI agentsFull-lifecycle deliveryMentorship

Pick #2 VSAT

Viasat

Carlsbad, CA·San Diego County

$161k – $255k base + incentives

You build the modem configuration framework at MediaTek — they integrate MediaTek/Qualcomm modems and need modem initialization, configuration, and runtime behavior. You’re the vendor-side expert for exactly this.
Shipped the commercial T300 RedCap modem; they want a proven track record delivering commercial 5G UE products.
3GPP protocols, 5G NR, and C/C++ run straight down their requirements list.
8+ years in wireless, on-target verification, and CLI automation tooling round out the match.

8+ yrs embedded wireless5G/LTE modem integrationC/C++ expert3GPPCommercial 5G UE

Pick #3 SAI

Shield AI

San Diego, CA·Emerging Domains (R5401)

Pay not listed Staff band + bonus + equity

Staff-level technical leadership is the job: lead complex integration efforts and influence technical direction — what you do now as primary US technical lead.
Distributed backend platform experience (Qualcomm MSIM) plus hardware/software integration and on-target debugging.
Expert C++/Linux development with Python tooling, operating in ambiguous, fast-moving technical environments.

Heads-up: requires ability to obtain a SECRET clearance, and ~10–20% travel to test sites.