Software Engineer, AI Engineer (Applied​/Software), Backend Developer

About the job

You'll own a core service in our production orchestration stack including fleet coordination, agentic job scheduling, telemetry ingestion, or the control plane. Our systems are heavily agentic by design: the factory is run by long-horizon agents operating in concert across a distributed system. You'll be responsible for building, deploying, and scaling these agents directly into production.

This is a full-time, in-office role at our San Rafael office. Joining us means stepping into a rapid-iteration, early-stage environment.

Design, build, and scale long-horizon production agents designed to navigate real-world failure modes gracefully.

Take end-to-end ownership of a core system that our live factory environment depends on.

Ship high-impact production code iteratively and safely into a live physical environment.

Take decisive ownership of critical architectural decisions, including event topology, multi-agent coordination patterns, and telemetry schemas.

• Able to work full-time, in-person in San Rafael, CA.
• Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms applied within a live, production-scale environment.
• A degree in Computer Engineering, AI, or a related scientific field.

• Experience deploying long-horizon agents within a distributed system using modern orchestration frameworks (e.g., Anthropic tool-use/MCP, OpenAI function calling, Lang Graph, CrewAI, Pydantic-AI, Smola Gents, or custom vLLM stacks).
• Daily fluency with multi-agent AI software engineering tool chains (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Devin, Windsurf, or similar).

• Equity: Meaningful early-stage equity (targeted at the 90th to 95th percentile of pre-seed peer compensation).

At Autonomous Production, you'll join a dynamic team that values innovation, creativity, and a bit of fun. You'll have a direct impact on our industrial robotics products and be part of a forward-looking company that's shaping the future of automation.

Autonomous Production is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. US citizenship is required for this role due to the nature of our customer base and applicable export control regulations (ITAR/EAR).