Nix Engineer

Somana; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunch

Snacks

Panoramic views

Pet-friendly office

Health, Dental, Vision

Job summary

Somana, a leading generative robotics company in SoHo, New York City, is seeking a Senior Nix Engineer to design and maintain the declarative Linux base for our hardware and software platform. You will shape the build, deployment, and CI/CD tooling that powers rapid improvements in capacity and quality on factory floors.

In this foundational role, you will own the tooling to target downstream environments, bring up NixOS on cutting-edge hardware, and contribute to the abstractions that compose

Qualifications

• Senior software engineer with strong Nix expertise.
• Deep knowledge of NixOS, Linux, and systemd.
• Embedded or edge computing experience.
• Interest in novel Linux system composition and deployment abstractions.

Responsibilities

• Build the tools used to target downstream software environments.
• Perform NixOS bring-up on state-of-the-art hardware and develop CI/CD tooling.

Skills

Nix

Linux

NixOS

Edge/Embedded

Job description

Somana is a generative robotics company. We founded the company because the incredible advances in the modeling layer have no way to access a fragmented physical world. We’re building the connective tissue that brings physical AI into the industrial world.

Somana is a hardware, software, and services platform powering rapid improvements in capacity, throughput, yield, and quality. Our compute platform talks to hundreds of peripherals, living on factory floors and has capabilities that compound after every run - which means the mechanical systems that house, cool, protect, and connect them are as critical as the silicon itself.

Why We Use Nix

Central to our proposition: architecting the right abstractions and modular system components.

The world of edge compute comes with unique challenges: reliability, observability, controllability, etc. These challenges compound if mis-modeled or mishandled, doubly so with the velocity and heterogeneity of the industrial deployments we target. Remotely reasoning over stateful nonsense, imperatively-managed hosts, or otherwise having facts about a fleet that aren’t derivable from a git SHA, are all nonstarters.

Nix alone provides us with the declarative, immutable base atop which we can author system components, reason about them in isolation, and reuse them in novel deployment environments.

As a Nix Engineer at Somana, you will build out the tools we use to target downstream software environments, perform NixOS bringup on our state-of-the-art hardware, and develop our build, deployment, and CI/CD tools that deliver reliable systems to our customers.

Who You Are

• Senior software engineer fluent in Nix
• Deep Nix, NixOS, Linux, and systemd knowledge
• Embedded and/or edge experience
• Interested in inventing novel ways of composing Linux systems + our core developer platform: the abstractions, plumbing, and deployment layer!

If you’ve already built a compute or electro-mechanical product line from scratch, shipped it at volume, and you’re looking for the kind of ownership and impact that only exists at a dynamic early stage company, we’d love to talk!

LOCATION & COMPENSATION:

• SoHo, New York City
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity - this is a foundational role on a small team
• Catered lunch, snacks, panoramic views, and pet-friendly office
• Health, Dental, Vision benefits + 401k