Platform Software Engineer — AI-Powered Manufacturing Core

Formulate Robotics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Autonomy

AI-enabled development workflows

Job summary

Formulate Robotics is seeking a Software Engineer (Platform) to build the core backend services that orchestrate Gen 3 manufacturing systems. You’ll design APIs, data models, and scalable pipelines that connect machines to the cloud and track production in real time.

You’ll own reliability, observability, and developer experience, working across distributed systems, data flows, and device connectivity while partnering with robotics and product teams to ship measurable platform improvements.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building backend/cloud systems.
• 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, and iteration.
• Strong debugging skills across services, networks, and devices.
• High agency and bias toward action in fast-moving environments.
• AI-native working style; using AI tools to accelerate shipping and 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 RBAC.
• 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

Distributed systems

APIs

Data modeling

Backend development

Go

Rust

Python

TypeScript

Java

Job description

Formulate Robotics is seeking a Software Engineer (Platform) to build the core backend services that orchestrate Gen 3 manufacturing systems. You’ll design APIs, data models, and scalable pipelines that connect machines to the cloud and track production in real time.

You’ll own reliability, observability, and developer experience, working across distributed systems, data flows, and device connectivity while partnering with robotics and product teams to ship measurable platform improvements.