Software Engineer

Autonomous Production; San Rafael (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Autonomous Production is hiring a software engineer to own a core service in the production orchestration stack at our San Rafael, CA office. You will design, deploy, and scale long-horizon agents across a distributed system that governs a live factory environment with telemetry and failure handling.

This is a full-time, in-office role in San Rafael, CA, offering an early-stage, fast-paced environment where you influence architecture and deliver production-ready code in a growing robotics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering, AI, or related field.
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms applied to production-scale systems.
• Experience with distributed systems and production-grade software.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale long-horizon production agents for live factory environments.
• Take end-to-end ownership of a core production system relied on by live factories.
• Ship high-impact production code into a live physical environment.
• Make architectural decisions on event topology, multi-agent coordination, and telemetry schemas.

Skills

Data structures and algorithms

Distributed systems

Production software engineering

Education

Degree in Computer Engineering, AI, or related field

Tools

Anthropic tool-use/MCP

OpenAI function calling

LangGraph

CrewAI

Pydantic-AI

vLLM stacks

Job description

At Autonomous Production, we combine agentic robotics with a new "factory OS" that allows factories to operate like data centers, with software gross margins.

Join us as we build a future where carbon emissions are 60% lower and local economies have access to affordable robotics and AI that materially improve lives across the socioeconomic spectrum. These are the benefits our initial customers are already experiencing.

Our venture-backed company is growing rapidly, help us continue building a version of the future where AI is used to generate outsized value while also creating a more sustainable, equitable, abundant world.

About the job

You'll own a core service in our production orchestration stack including fleet coordination, agentic job scheduling, telemetry ingestion, or the control plane. Our systems are heavily agentic by design: the factory is run by long-horizon agents operating in concert across a distributed system. You'll be responsible for building, deploying, and scaling these agents directly into production.

This is a full-time, in-office role at our San Rafael office. Joining us means stepping into a rapid-iteration, early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and scale long-horizon production agents designed to navigate real-world failure modes gracefully.

Take end-to-end ownership of a core system that our live factory environment depends on.

Ship high-impact production code iteratively and safely into a live physical environment.

Take decisive ownership of critical architectural decisions, including event topology, multi-agent coordination patterns, and telemetry schemas.

• Able to work full-time, in-person in San Rafael, CA.
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms applied within a live, production-scale environment.
• A degree in Computer Engineering, AI, or a related scientific field.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience deploying long-horizon agents within a distributed system using modern orchestration frameworks (e.g., Anthropic tool-use/MCP, OpenAI function calling, LangGraph, CrewAI, Pydantic-AI, SmolaGents, or custom vLLM stacks).
• Daily fluency with multi-agent AI software engineering toolchains (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Devin, Windsurf, or similar).

Compensation

• Equity: Meaningful early-stage equity (targeted at the 90th to 95th percentile of pre-seed peer compensation).

Why You'll Love It Here

At Autonomous Production, you'll join a dynamic team that values innovation, creativity, and a bit of fun. You'll have a direct impact on our industrial robotics products and be part of a forward-looking company that's shaping the future of automation.

Autonomous Production is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. US citizenship is required for this role due to the nature of our customer base and applicable export control regulations (ITAR/EAR).