Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Manufacturing Orchestration

Formulate Robotics; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

High ownership on core platform

Direct impact on manufacturing

Fast-moving team

AI-enabled development workflows

Job summary

Formulate Robotics in Mountain View is building an applied AI platform that connects Gen 3 machines to the cloud, orchestrates production, and turns real manufacturing into a programmable, continuously improving system.

As a Software Engineer (Platform), you will ship backend services and APIs, design data models, enable secure device-to-cloud connectivity, and drive reliability, observability, and scalable pipelines in a fast-moving, AI-enabled team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building backend/cloud systems in production.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, APIs, and data modeling.
• Experience with at least one modern backend language (Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, Java).
• Comfortable owning services end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, monitoring.
• AI-native working style: you actively leverage AI tools to accelerate shipping and raise quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that orchestrate Gen 3 machines and factory workflows.
• Design data models and event flows for production runs, telemetry, quality signals, and auditability.
• Implement secure device-to-cloud connectivity, authentication, and role-based access control.
• Build scalable pipelines for ingesting machine telemetry and operational data.
• Own platform reliability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
• Improve developer velocity: tooling, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and deployment workflows.
• Work closely with robotics/controls/firmware teams to define clean interfaces and protocols.
• Collaborate with Product to translate requirements into shipped features and measurable outcomes.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs to ship quickly while keeping the system maintainable.

Skills

Rust

Go

Python

TypeScript

Java

Job description

Formulate Robotics in Mountain View is building an applied AI platform that connects Gen 3 machines to the cloud, orchestrates production, and turns real manufacturing into a programmable, continuously improving system.

As a Software Engineer (Platform), you will ship backend services and APIs, design data models, enable secure device-to-cloud connectivity, and drive reliability, observability, and scalable pipelines in a fast-moving, AI-enabled team.