About Us
Foundry Robotics is building an AI-first, assembly-focused contract manufacturerâsoftware-defined manufacturing where robots and humans execute real production work.
Our wedge isnât just âmodels.â Itâs the software layer that turns:
Orders â Schedules
Schedules â Work instructions
Work â Telemetry
Telemetry â Continuously improving throughput, quality, and cost
This role is not robotics engineering. It is for senior software engineers who build the cloud + on-prem systems that run the factory, and the data backbone that makes those systems observable, reliable, and scalable.
We are also hiring Robotics Research Engineers separatelyâthis is a different role.
The Role
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer (IC) to build the backend systems and infrastructure that power the factory of the future.
You will design and implement:
Cloud-based backend systems
On-prem factory services
Embedded-to-cloud data flows
Petabyte-scale visual data pipelines
Machine learning infrastructure across multiple compute environments
You will build production systems that stay online when factories are noisy, connectivity is imperfect, and downtime costs real money.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You will ship.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud + On-Prem Architecture
Build and maintain a cloud-based backend for planning, scheduling, execution, inventory, traceability, and telemetry
Design multi-compute environment architectures spanning embedded, on-prem, and cloud systems
Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
Ensure secure, reliable data movement between factory floor and cloud
Build PB-scale visual data pipelines for ingesting, curating, indexing, and preparing manufacturing data
Design container orchestration and microservices architectures for ML infrastructure
Enable fine-tuning workflows and model deployment across hybrid compute environments
Implement workflow orchestration and data lifecycle management
Design systems that tolerate intermittent connectivity and degraded network modes
Build observability: metrics, logging, tracing, runbooks
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between correctness, speed, and maintainability
Maintain high uptime in industrial production environments
Implement APIs, services, database schemas, event-driven systems
Contribute to operator-facing tools and internal dashboards
Ship production-grade systems end-to-end
What Weâre Looking For
3â6 years building and shipping real production software
Deep experience in backend systems and infrastructure, hybrid cloud + edge experience, infrastructure and DevOps, OR data at scale
Comfortable operating independently and owning complex systems end-to-end
Comfortable working at large scale (terabytes â petabytes)
Nice to Have
Experience supporting machine learning infrastructure in production
Experience in manufacturing, robotics, or industrial systems
Ability to obtain a government security clearance
Experience working on projects related to the Department of Defense (DoD)
Growth Opportunities
Help define the software backbone of an AI-native factory
Work across robotics, ML infrastructure, and industrial systems
Grow into larger technical ownership over time
Influence architecture and long-term system design
Why Join Us?
This is one of the only places where world-class manufacturing executives, mechanical engineers, robotics researchers, and software engineers sit in the same room building production systems together.
We are focused on reinventing manufacturing to be localized, autonomous, and software-defined.
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