Posted 1 month ago

Senior Software Engineer – Automation Platform

San FranciscoOn-siteFull-time

AI Summary

Senior Software Engineer defining and implementing the automation platform for software-defined manufacturing, building scalable systems for robot orchestration, workflows, and production deployments.

About this role

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”.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Design and build the core of our robot orchestration framework — the execution engine, the APIs, and frameworks your users will write workflows against

Partner closely with the systems engineers who use our framework to understand pain points and shape what we build next

Make the system more reliable, observable, and debuggable, both for us and for the engineers building on it

Review code, raise the engineering bar, and help shape technical direction on a small team

WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

5+ years building production software in Python, with real depth — you've built frameworks other engineers depend on, not just written application code
Experience with workflow engines or orchestration systems
Solid distributed systems foundations: state, consistency, failure handling, queueing, retries, idempotency
Comfort operating production systems — debugging across process and network boundaries, reasoning about failure modes
You think like a platform engineer: you care about the developer experience of the people using your code, and you design with that in mind

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD

Experience with robotics, controls, manufacturing systems, or other domains where software meets physical hardware
Background in PLCs, real-time systems, or device-level software
Experience supporting production deployments in industrial or field environments