Technical Staff Lead

re-zoo-me; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

Unlimited PTO Policy

$180-$250k + equity

Relocation assistance

Job summary

AIC is seeking an on-site software engineer in El Segundo to embed with partners and build the next generation of Decision Physics-based software for manufacturing. You will work closely with design partners and technicians to deploy, verify, and scale data-driven solutions.

You will write production-grade code across the stack, ensure operational maturity, and drive measurable outcomes that improve efficiency and capacity in the partner's workflows.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering in a production environment.
• Experience in product and design contexts is required.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with data intensive applications and architectures.
• Proficient in data modeling, ETL, system and API design, frontend, ML pipelines.
• Background in hard-tech, robotics, or manufacturing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Embed on-site with partners and manufacturers for meaningful stretches.
• Build trust across the vertical from GM to technicians for adoption.
• Develop deep understanding of partner shops, constraints, and workflow.
• Translate observations into concrete requirements and ship software.
• Write production code across the full stack: data model, ETL, backend, frontend, ML, hardware integrations.
• Coordinate on-site and HQ staff to deploy and maintain solutions.
• Own outcomes and financial impact rather than just deliverables.

Skills

Software engineering

Product and design experience

Communication and stakeholder mgmt

Data modeling

ETL

System and API design

Frontend development

Algorithms & ML pipelines

Hardware integration

DevOps / infrastructure

Robotics / manufacturing background

Education

Graduate degree in CS or related field

Job description

El Segundo, CA Not Applicable Engineering and Information Technology Manufacturing

Whoever controls the manufacturing of Physical AI controls their destiny. Right now, that doesn’t bode well for the West. But we don’t need to outproduce China; we need to outmaneuver dependence on its supply chains. The workforce isn’t the bottleneck; workflows are. AIC develops AI software based on our proprietary Decision Physics framework to transform the supply chains that stretch up into America's most strategically important technology programs. At the base of these supply chains are... Physical AI will decide the balance of power for the next century. It runs on components built by Original Component Manufacturers at the base of America's most critical supply chains. The bottleneck isn’t workforce, it’s workflow, which AIC solves by deploying our software operating system to unlock trapped capacity in the companies we acquire by empowering the talented operators who have built those enterprises. AIC is a software-led industrial holding company. We built our operating system on a proprietary framework called Decision Physics™. Our team deploys on-site to modernize the decision-making infrastructure that changes what a factory can do. We don’t sell SaaS. Our mission is to secure America's position as the global leader in physical AI. We call ourselves Software Industrialists. We run toward complexity, not away from it. If that's how you see the world, AIC is where you belong.

• Please note this is an onsite role. It will be based out of our El Segundo office 5x a week.

What You’ll Do

• Embed on-site with design partners and manufacturers for meaningful stretches of the year — their floor is your second office.
• Build trust across the full vertical, from the GM to the technician running the station. Software and hardware deployed without this trust doesn't get adopted.
• Develop genuine understanding of how each partner's shop works and why — the history, constraints, people, and physics of what moves through it.
• Translate unstructured observation into concrete requirements, then build, ship, and maintain the software yourself and through the other technical staff you coordinate on-site and at HQ.
• Write production code across the full stack — data model, ETL, backend, frontend, algorithms, hardware integrations, ML pipelines, analyses, and infrastructure. Everyone wears all the hats at various points in time.
• Run the process-engineering side of deployment — sequencing software changes with operational changes so the two evolve in lockstep, including the cultural work: training, change management, work instructions, quiet one-on-ones with skeptics.
• Own outcomes, not deliverables. Success is measured in operational maturity and financial outcomes gained by the partner, not features shipped.

Who You Are

• 2+ years of experience software engineering in a fast and collaborative production environment
• Product and design experience
• Strong communication/stakeholder management skills
• Knowledge and intuition for designing and implementing data intensive applications
• Experience with data modeling, ETL, system and API design, frontend, algorithms, hardware integration, data science, applied math, operations research, statistics, machine learning, devops, or infrastructure
• Hard-tech, robotics, and manufacturing background is a big plus

What We Have

• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• Unlimited PTO Policy
• $180-$250k + equity
• Relocation assistance

Nice to Have

• Graduate education in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, applied physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field
• Track record leading technical projects, especially in a customer-facing role
• Previous startup experience