Senior Design Automation Engineer — Building Compiler

Reframe Systems; Boston; On-site; PHP 8,636,643 - 12,954,965; Full time

Job summary

Reframe Systems is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the hardest parts of our design automation platform—turning high-level designs into manufacturable models and production plans for our automated microfactories.

This senior, hands-on leadership role requires deconstructing complex domains, delivering reliable code at scale, and mentoring engineers while pushing AI-enabled automation across our workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of production software experience.
• Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python or C# with automated testing and CI/CD.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and containerized deployments (EC2, Lambda).
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to deliver reliable code at scale.
• Experience using coding agents to build prototypes and rapid solutions.
• Ability to learn new languages quickly.

Responsibilities

• Help architect and build the core of our design automation platform: the pipeline that lowers a building design into manufacturing-ready outputs.
• Turn a messy, ambiguous domain into clean, durable abstractions. Decompose large problems, prove solutions in the real world, and cut scope judiciously.
• Design the pipeline's stages, intermediate representation, and the verification gates that catch problems early.
• Set technical direction for design automation and raise the engineering bar through review, standards, and mentorship.
• Leverage AI to both build this system and utilize it within the system itself.
• Collaborate with highly interdisciplinary teams to build towards a highly automated system while progressively augmenting our existing workflows.

Skills

Go

Python

C#

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s in CS or EE

Tools

EC2

Lambda

Kubernetes

Job description

Reframe Systems is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the hardest parts of our design automation platform—turning high-level designs into manufacturable models and production plans for our automated microfactories.

This senior, hands-on leadership role requires deconstructing complex domains, delivering reliable code at scale, and mentoring engineers while pushing AI-enabled automation across our workflows.