Senior Software Engineer, Automation

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. 

Software Engineers at Bright Machines are responsible for defining and implementing the systems that make Software Defined Manufacturing possible. Our robots and software will be deployed in a variety of factory conditions as well as the cloud, and help support the manufacturing operations for some of the biggest names in the industry.

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will play an influential part in the development and deployment of software components that help realize Bright Machines vision of Software Defined Manufacturing.

You will create scalable software systems that drive our cloud-based performance monitoring, KPI dashboards, and command/control systems on the factory floor, as well as on-robot operations. You will work on a team with other Software Engineers in the Bright Machines' San Francisco and Israel offices to define and implement our software stack – from robot to the cloud.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a greenfield development effort that will change the way companies build and produce products. 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

• Develop and deploy software components that help realize Bright Machines vision of Software Defined Manufacturing 

• Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop reliable and scalable micro-services 

• Write clean, maintainable code, and perform peer code-reviews 

• Create unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure we are continually shipping code to production 

• Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility 

• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

• Help define and implement standards and promote best practices for distributed software systems 

• Analyze and optimize applications to maximize speed and scale

• Ability to work with and test directly against hardware

WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

• 7+ years of experience (Senior Software Engineer or equivalent) designing and implementing manufacturing automation systems (SCADA, MES, real-time systems)

• Demonstrated system integration experience using Ignition

• Experience with PLC programming like Beckhoff and Siemens

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

• Proficiency in a variety of modern programming languages (Java, Go, Python, C#/C++) & OSS (Linux)

• Ability to work in a variety of compute environments (Windows, Linux, AWS)

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD

• Solid understanding and application of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Understanding of scaling and operational concerns for large distributed software systems

• Demonstrated ability to ship code to customers

• Experience communicating with users, technical leaders and management to collect requirements, describe system designs, and set product strategy

• Knowledge and demonstrated application of software engineering best practices relating to the SDLC including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI/CD, testing, and operations