Network Engineer, Autonomous Factory

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Basically, we’re building robots that build robots.

Factory OS is building software that runs factories. Our platform spans cloud backends, on-prem services, and edge devices deployed on the factory floor. The operators, supervisors, and managers who use our tools need interfaces that are fast, reliable, and intuitive—even when network conditions aren’t perfect and the environment is demanding.

As a Network Engineer, Autonomous Factory, you’ll design and build that network from the ground up for a 130,000 sq. ft. autonomous manufacturing facility, and then own it as we scale.

You’ll work across the full network stack: physical infrastructure, switching and routing, server and GPU rack fabric, segmentation between industrial and IT systems, wireless, and core services including DHCP, DNS, and time synchronization. You’ll also own the WAN and VPN edge, the overlay network engineers use to securely reach the factory floor, and the security boundaries required for ITAR and CMMC 2.0 Level 2 compliance.

This is a deeply hands‑on role. You’ll be in the ceiling, in the racks, and in the packet captures, while also working with engineering and manufacturing teams to design how new robotic work cells should be connected before the first one is ever built.

If you want to build critical infrastructure from the ground up and have a direct role in enabling a truly autonomous factory, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact from day one.

Founder mentality: We love people who build like it’s their own company. You move fast, take ownership, and find a way through when the path isn’t obvious. You have the drive to make big things happen and the judgment to take smart risks along the way. If you prefer a clearly defined lane, a predictable pace, and all the answers before you start, there’s nothing wrong with that—but Foundry might not be the right fit.

• Produce the network design for the factory: physical plant, logical topology, IP plan, segmentation model, redundancy, and capacity. Get it built with contractors and facilities.

• Design and stand up the server and GPU rack fabric: high‑speed top‑of‑rack, out‑of‑band management, storage traffic, and coordination with power and cooling.

• Wire and segment robotic work cells: controllers, safety systems, fieldbus segments, edge compute, cameras, and operator stations. Make robotics middleware discovery and multicast behave.

• Own the WAN and VPN edge: redundant private connectivity to the cloud that actually fails over, with monitoring that catches lost redundancy before it becomes an outage.

• Run the overlay network and its interaction with the underlay. Design so overlay routing can never hijack local traffic.

• Operate the core services the floor depends on: DHCP, DNS including private zones into the cloud, NTP or PTP, network access control where it fits, and firewall policy between zones.

• Instrument everything. Switch, firewall, and flow telemetry land in the shared monitoring stack, and you write the runbooks.

• Carry the network portion of ITAR and CMMC 2.0 Level 2: boundary protection, access control, logging, configuration management, and evidence for assessors.

• Enable remote fleet operations: re‑imaging, health checks, and access to cell compute without walking to the cell.

• 7+ years in network engineering, including at least one greenfield or major build‑out of a campus, data center, or industrial facility.

• Deep routing and switching: OSPF or BGP, VLANs and VXLAN, spanning tree, LACP, QoS,…