Autonomous Factory AI Engineer

Xcede; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede in San Francisco is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to join our growing technology team as a full-time software engineer. You will own and ship customer-facing features from ideation through deployment, including collaborative AI-assisted interfaces for factory operators.

You will build and extend AI agent orchestration systems that optimize scheduling and automate operator dispatch to reduce labor costs.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer or similar role.

Responsibilities

• Owning and shipping entire customer-facing features from ideation through deployment — e.g., building collaborative AI-assisted chat interfaces for factory operators
• Building and extending AI agent orchestration systems that optimize factory scheduling, dispatch work to operators, and drive indirect labor costs toward zero
• Working with the platform's unified data layer that connects legacy factory systems into real-time operational intelligence
• Applying context engineering, agent harnesses, small model training, and RL techniques to deploy AI that makes high-leverage decisions in production environments
• Collaborating directly with customers and deploying features that have immediate, visible impact on factory throughput and profitability

Job description

Xcede in San Francisco is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to join our growing technology team as a full-time software engineer. You will own and ship customer-facing features from ideation through deployment, including collaborative AI-assisted interfaces for factory operators.

You will build and extend AI agent orchestration systems that optimize scheduling and automate operator dispatch to reduce labor costs.