Lead Software Automation Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary of $200,000 - $300,000

Equity options

Greenfield work environment

Significant venture funding support

Job summary

A technology firm in San Francisco seeks a Lead Software Automation Engineer. You will build automation pipelines for engineering tools and develop structured APIs to enhance workflows. Ideal candidates have experience automating scientific tools, strong systems-thinking abilities, and a proven track record in building reliable automation solutions. The role offers a salary ranging from $200,000 to $300,000 based on experience, with exciting opportunities to make an impact in the field of AI and hardware design.

Qualifications

• Experience automating EDA, CAD, or CAE tools using scripting or APIs.
• Familiarity with software automation and orchestration.
• Ability to work across diverse execution environments.

Responsibilities

• Build automation pipelines and adapters for engineering tools.
• Develop APIs and workflows integrating with orchestration systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate automated toolchains.

Skills

Experience automating engineering or scientific tools

Strong systems-thinking ability

Proven ability to build reproducible automation pipelines

Comfortable bridging real engineering tools into ML workflows

Job description

This range is provided by Acceler8 Talent. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$200,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr

Direct message the job poster from Acceler8 Talent

Lead Software Automation Engineer - San Francisco, CA

A company building AI systems that can interact with the physical world at scale - running experiments, controlling hardware, and accelerating scientific discovery are looking for a Lead Software Automation Engineer to join their team.

What Will I Be Doing:

• Build automation pipelines and adapters for EDA and engineering tools, enabling programmatic and deterministic execution
• Develop structured APIs, log parsers, error classifiers, and reproducible workflows that integrate with orchestration and agent systems
• Implement tool-wrapping scripts, automated validation routines, and parameterized flows across commercial and open-source platforms
• Collaborate with platform engineers, agent systems, ML teams, and domain experts to integrate automated toolchains into production workflows

What We're Looking For:

• Experience automating engineering or scientific tools (CAD, EDA, CAE, CAM, COMSOL, etc.) using scripting, APIs, or workflow orchestration
• Strong systems‑thinking ability and comfort working across heterogeneous tools, file formats, and execution environments
• Proven ability to build reproducible, fault‑tolerant automation pipelines and structured tool interfaces
• Comfortable bridging real engineering tools into ML‑driven and agent‑driven workflows

What's In It For Me:

• Salary of $200,000 - $300,000 dependent on experience plus equity
• Greenfield work. Build something that doesn't exist, at the frontier of physical AI and automated hardware design
• Real impact. Control actual physical systems contributing to breakthroughs in cancer detection, materials science, and more
• Join a company backed by significant venture funding and a $42M government research programme

Apply now for immediate consideration!

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting