Platform Engineer—AI Factory Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Nexus is hiring a Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure enabling AI Agents in US factories, from cloud to plant networks. You’ll craft deployment architecture, observability, and industrial connectivity that keeps on-prem and edge deployments reliable and scalable.

You will own containerization, networking, and secure connectivity across AWS, VPCs, and plant environments, ensuring robust uptime and predictable deployments for customers shipping billions in product every year.

Qualifications

• 2+ years building and operating production systems with uptime ownership.
• Exceptional software development skills, from greenfield to large codebases.
• Strong fundamentals in containers, networking, and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define deployment architecture for cloud, customer VPCs, and on-prem environments to enable factory deployments.
• Architect and run the observability stack across application, platform, and infrastructure layers.
• Build the integration substrate that connects agents to factory stacks (Rockwell, Siemens, SAP, UNS).
• Develop containerization and internal networking so the platform runs identically in cloud and plant DMZ.

Skills

Production systems

Software development

Containers

Networking

Cloud infrastructure

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Nexus is hiring a Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure enabling AI Agents in US factories, from cloud to plant networks. You’ll craft deployment architecture, observability, and industrial connectivity that keeps on-prem and edge deployments reliable and scalable.

You will own containerization, networking, and secure connectivity across AWS, VPCs, and plant environments, ensuring robust uptime and predictable deployments for customers shipping billions in product every year.