Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer - Test Platforms

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Housing subsidy

Relocation assistance

Wellness benefits

Daily meals in office

Job summary

Etched is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer to build the software platform that powers manufacturing test across new product introduction and mass production for our frontier AI systems. This is a software engineering role embedded within Manufacturing Test Engineering, working closely with hardware, firmware, software, quality, and factory operations.

You'll build the backend services, APIs, data pipelines, release infrastructure, and test station software that enable scalable,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building production software, backend services, or data platforms.
• Strong Python development experience (or Go, Java, C#, or TypeScript with Python proficiency).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, version control, code review, debugging, and production monitoring.
• Experience designing scalable APIs, databases, data models, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating software with external systems and building reliable production services.
• Experience developing internal applications, dashboards, or operator-facing software.
• Comfortable owning technical architecture and building greenfield software platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Willingness to work onsite from our San Jose office and travel internationally to manufacturing partners as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support manufacturing test and factory operations.
• Own software for manufacturing release management, deployment, versioning, and traceability across production environments.
• Develop scalable manufacturing data platforms for test results, yield analysis, genealogy, and production reporting.
• Build reusable manufacturing test station applications, operator interfaces, and automation frameworks.
• Integrate manufacturing software with MES, SFIS, and other factory systems used by contract manufacturers.
• Partner with Manufacturing Test, Hardware, Firmware, Software, Quality, and NPI teams to support product development through production ramp.
• Productionize prototype engineering tools into reliable, production-ready manufacturing software.
• Travel to domestic and international manufacturing partners to support factory bring-up and production deployments.

Skills

Backend development

Python

CI/CD

APIs & data models

Distributed systems

External integrations

Internal dashboards

Technical architecture

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

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Job description

Etched is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer to build the software platform that powers manufacturing test across new product introduction and mass production for our frontier AI systems. This is a software engineering role embedded within Manufacturing Test Engineering, working closely with hardware, firmware, software, quality, and factory operations.

You'll build the backend services, APIs, data pipelines, release infrastructure, and test station software that enable scalable,