Senior Design Automation Engineer - AI-Driven Platform

Jobtailor; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Boston, MA is seeking a senior software engineer to architect and build the core of our design automation platform. You will shape the pipeline that translates complex design problems into manufacturing-ready outputs and set the technical direction for the team.

You will lead by example, mentor engineers, and push for robust, scalable solutions in a cloud-native environment, leveraging Go, Python, and modern tooling to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience building production software.
• Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python or C#, including automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and alerting, debugging and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Help architect and build the core of our design automation platform: the pipeline that lowers a building design into manufacturing-ready outputs.
• Turn a messy, ambiguous domain into clean, durable abstractions. Decompose large problems, prove solutions in the real world, and cut scope judiciously.
• Design the pipeline's stages, intermediate representation, and the verification gates that catch problems early.
• Set technical direction for design automation and raise the engineering bar through review, standards, and mentorship.
• Leverage AI to both build this system and utilize it within the system itself.
• Collaborate with highly interdisciplinary teams to build towards a highly automated system while progressively augmenting our existing workflows.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Go

Python

C#

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

Jobtailor in Boston, MA is seeking a senior software engineer to architect and build the core of our design automation platform. You will shape the pipeline that translates complex design problems into manufacturing-ready outputs and set the technical direction for the team.

You will lead by example, mentor engineers, and push for robust, scalable solutions in a cloud-native environment, leveraging Go, Python, and modern tooling to accelerate delivery.