RETHINK MANUFACTURING
The only way to ignite change is to build the best team. At Bright Machines®, we’re innovators and experts in our craft who have joined together to create a new category of manufacturing that will help transform the industry. We believe software and data are the answer, thoughtfully applied to solve our customers’ unique challenges. Through intelligent automation, we give factories newfound flexibility, scalability, and resilience. We deliver products to meet the demands of today while building a platform to take advantage of what comes next.
Working with us means you’ll have the opportunity to make lasting, impactful changes for our company and our customers. If you’re ready to apply your exceptional skills to create the factory of the future, we’d love to speak with you.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Software Engineers at Bright Machines are responsible for defining and implementing the systems that make Software Defined Manufacturing possible and that power our flexible robotic manufacturing lines. Our robots, and the software that controls them, are deployed in a variety of factory conditions and help support the manufacturing operations for some of the biggest names in the industry.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build scalable systems that help our users program, deploy, and operate our automation equipment. You will work with other Engineers in the Bright Machines San Francisco office to define, architect, implement, and deploy our software stack – from robot to cloud. If you’re ready to apply exceptional engineering practices and build the software that will define the next generation in manufacturing, this is your opportunity to “Be Bright”.
BE EMPOWERED TO CHANGE AN INDUSTRY
Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure assembly operations. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). With its new AI factory, Bright Machines addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI and the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing by building data center infrastructure at scale with higher quality and shorter time-to-market.
Bright Machines is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ AI 50, awarded “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and highlighted by several other leading technology and innovation organizations.
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Help design, develop and deploy software components that help realize Bright Machines vision of Software Defined Manufacturing
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Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop reliable and scalable frameworks and infrastructure
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Write clean, maintainable code, and perform peer code-reviews
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Create unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure we are continually shipping code to production
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Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
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Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
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Pair with adjacent teams to understand how your frameworks and infrastructure are actually used in the field, providing tier 3 remote support for production systems, continuously improving them and leveraging recent advances to improve developer velocity
- Experience with manufacturing engineering systems (PLCs) and at least 4 of the following with experience in a production environment: Software Development, On Prem infrastructure, Networking, Distributed Systems, Storage, Infrastructure As Code, Cloud infrastructure, Controls Engineering, Security Engineering, Robotics Software, Systems Development Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer
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B.S. or M.S. degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
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5+ years of job experience as Software Engineer or equivalent role
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Proficiency in a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Javascript, C#, Go, etc)
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Ability to work in a variety of compute environments (Windows, Linux, AWS/Azure)
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Development experience on both frontend and backend of production systems
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Experience communicating with users, technical leaders and management to collect requirements, describe system designs, and architecting software systems that meets your stakeholders needs
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Knowledge and demonstrated application of software engineering best practices relating to the SDLC including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI/CD, testing, and operations
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Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow other team members
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Fluency in Spanish (technical)