Software Engineer - AI-Driven Factory Orchestration

Janicki; Sedro-Woolley (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with matching

Paid time off

Floating holidays

Shift options

Off-shift premium pay

Job summary

Janicki Industries in Sedro Woolley, Washington, seeks a senior software/automation engineer to design and implement a scheduling and control layer for a new five-axis milling facility. You will work with AI agents, integrate SAP and MES, and drive zero-wait spindle scheduling on a floor of 25 mills.

The role requires 5+ years building production systems, strong Python/C#/Java/Go/Rust skills, and hands-on floor presence in MT/WA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production systems that ran unattended and carried real consequences when they failed.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred.
• Practical experience shipping scheduling, planning, or optimization systems.
• Fluency in Python, C#, Java, Go, or Rust.
• Disciplined engineering practices: testing, CI, observability, and simulation-first development.
• Willingness to work and travel in MT and WA spend real time on the floor.
• Must have effective verbal and written communication skills in the English language.
• Due to our ITAR and EAR regulations, applicants must be a US Citizen or of Legal Permanent Resident Status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b (a) (3).

Responsibilities

• Support a production floor with approximately 25 five-axis mills arranged along a single central traffic lane.
• Coordinate AGV/AMR pallet shuttling, chip evacuation, and cutter delivery across the facility.
• Enable robotic billet handling, clamping, and work preparation.
• Build a scheduling and sequencing engine whose primary objective is zero spindle wait.
• Develop traffic management, zone control, deadlock detection, and recovery for the central lane.
• Implement look ahead material and tooling staging so the right resources arrive before the current job ends.
• Coordinate fleet operations across mixed vendors and protocols, including heterogeneous coordination across shared, bidirectional lanes.
• Build integration services for SAP, tool life, machine state, program status, and MES.
• Develop simulation and digital-twin tooling for safe, high-volume testing.
• Create operator interfaces for visibility, override, and explanation.
• Treat robust exception handling as a core product capability.
• Manage multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining strong communication and collaborative working relationships.
• Direct AI coding agents fluently across multi-week bodies of work not just autocomplete.
• Work spec-first: define the problem, constraints, interfaces, and acceptance criteria before writing code.
• Decompose work for parallel AI agents while owning the integration seams.
• Engineer context deliberately, thinking in graphs for both agent workflows and the factory itself.
• Apply rigorous verification, judging where AI-generated code is appropriate versus where code must remain small, deterministic, and hand-reviewed.
• Continuously improve your own AI-assisted development tooling and raise the team's throughput.
• Perform additional engineering duties as assigned.

Skills

Python

C#

Java

Go

Rust

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering

Master’s degree

Job description

Janicki Industries in Sedro Woolley, Washington, seeks a senior software/automation engineer to design and implement a scheduling and control layer for a new five-axis milling facility. You will work with AI agents, integrate SAP and MES, and drive zero-wait spindle scheduling on a floor of 25 mills.

The role requires 5+ years building production systems, strong Python/C#/Java/Go/Rust skills, and hands-on floor presence in MT/WA.