Foundry Systems Software Engineer (Lab & Factory)

Airtree-Ventures; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtree-Ventures is hiring an early-career software engineer to build the systems behind the foundry: software that runs lab and factory equipment, coordinates production work, tracks materials and creates regulatory records.

You will work with scientists and operators, define clear requirements, and own the path from need to live software. The team uses AI agents to generate, review and test code, with on-site work in inner Sydney.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• A bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science or another engineering field.
• Strong fundamentals across APIs, databases, testing, debugging and production systems.
• Clear evidence of high performance, from academic results, professional work, difficult projects, research, open source work or another demanding field.
• Experience building and shipping software that people actually use.
• Ability to work out what software must achieve, turn that into testable behaviour and verify the result thoroughly.
• Regular use of AI coding agents, with the discipline to review and test generated code across normal operation, edge cases, failures and recovery.
• Comfortable working directly with users, setting sound priorities and staying hands-on through delivery and support.
• The right to work in Australia, work on-site in inner Sydney and join an on-call roster.

Responsibilities

• During your first 3-6 months, you will help build and improve software for equipment control, process coordination, electronic work records and material tracking.
• Turn real needs into clear requirements and priorities with scientists and operators.
• Build Python services, process-control software, TypeScript and React interfaces, APIs and PostgreSQL data models.
• Connect software to physical equipment through interfaces such as Modbus and OPC UA.
• Deploy and operate systems on AWS.
• Use AI agents to generate, review, test and debug software, and take responsibility for what they produce.
• Verify that software does what it needs to, through code review, automated tests, simulation and controlled trials on live equipment.
• Test normal operation, failure cases, data integrity, equipment responses and safe recovery.
• Own production systems: monitoring, support, incident response and on-call work.

Skills

2-4 years of experience

Bachelor's degree

APIs

Databases

Testing

Debugging

Production systems

AI coding agents

User collaboration

On-call roster

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering or CS

Tools

Python

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Airtree-Ventures is hiring an early-career software engineer to build the systems behind the foundry: software that runs lab and factory equipment, coordinates production work, tracks materials and creates regulatory records.

You will work with scientists and operators, define clear requirements, and own the path from need to live software. The team uses AI agents to generate, review and test code, with on-site work in inner Sydney.