Lead Software Automation Engineer

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A company building AI systems that can interact with the physical world at scale - running experiments, controlling hardware, and accelerating scientific discovery are looking for a Lead Software Automation Engineer to join their team.

• Build automation pipelines and adapters for EDA and engineering tools, enabling programmatic and deterministic execution
• Develop structured APIs, log parsers, error classifiers, and reproducible workflows that integrate with orchestration and agent systems
• Implement tool-wrapping scripts, automated validation routines, and parameterized flows across commercial and open-source platforms
• Collaborate with platform engineers, agent systems, ML teams, and domain experts to integrate automated tool chains into production workflows

• Experience automating engineering or scientific tools (CAD, EDA, CAE, CAM, COMSOL, etc.) using scripting, APIs, or workflow orchestration
• Strong systems‑thinking ability and comfort working across heterogeneous tools, file formats, and execution environments
• Proven ability to build reproducible, fault‑tolerant automation pipelines and structured tool interfaces
• Comfortable bridging real engineering tools into ML‑driven and agent‑driven workflows

• Salary of $200,000 - $300,000 dependent on experience plus equity
• Greenfield work. Build something that doesn't exist, at the frontier of physical AI and automated hardware design
• Real impact. Control actual physical systems contributing to breakthroughs in cancer detection, materials science, and more
• Join a company backed by significant venture funding and a $42M government research programme

Apply now for immediate consideration!

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting