Senior Software Engineer, Robotics & AI Manufacturing Platform

Brightmachines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Machines in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement the robot orchestration framework, spanning from edge robotics to cloud services. This role emphasizes building scalable, production-grade software that enables customers to program, deploy, and operate automation equipment across varied factory environments.

You will collaborate with systems engineers to improve reliability and developer experience, review code, and shape technical direction for a

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software in Python, with real depth — you've built frameworks other engineers depend on, not just written application code.
• Experience with workflow engines or orchestration systems.
• Solid distributed systems foundations: state, consistency, failure handling, queueing, retries, idempotency.
• Comfort operating production systems — debugging across process and network boundaries, reasoning about failure modes.
• You think like a platform engineer: you care about the developer experience of the people using your code, and you design with that in mind.
• Experience with robotics, controls, manufacturing systems, or other domains where software meets physical hardware.
• Background in PLCs, real-time systems, or device-level software.
• Experience supporting production deployments in industrial or field environments

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core of our robot orchestration framework — the execution engine, the APIs, and frameworks your users will write workflows against
• Partner closely with the systems engineers who use our framework to understand pain points and shape what we build next
• Make the system more reliable, observable, and debuggable, both for us and for the engineers building on it
• Review code, raise the engineering bar, and help shape technical direction on a small team

Skills

Python

Workflow engines

Distributed systems

Production debugging

Platform engineering

Robotics software

PLCs/Real-time systems

Industrial deployments

Job description

Bright Machines in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement the robot orchestration framework, spanning from edge robotics to cloud services. This role emphasizes building scalable, production-grade software that enables customers to program, deploy, and operate automation equipment across varied factory environments.

You will collaborate with systems engineers to improve reliability and developer experience, review code, and shape technical direction for a