RETHINK MANUFACTURING
The only way to ignite change is to build the best team. At Bright Machines®, we’re innovators and experts in our craft who have joined together to create a new category of manufacturing that will help transform the industry. We believe software and data are the answer, thoughtfully applied to solve our customers’ unique challenges. Through intelligent automation, we give factories newfound flexibility, scalability, and resilience. We deliver products to meet the demands of today while building a platform to take advantage of what comes next.
Working with us means you’ll have the opportunity to make lasting, impactful changes for our company and our customers. If you’re ready to apply your exceptional skills to create the factory of the future, we’d love to speak with you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Principal Software Engineer at Bright Machines, you will be a hands-on contributor to the R&D team, developing cutting edge algorithms & powerful yet easy-to-use software features to enable the next generation of design for automated assembly software.
As a member of this team, you will work directly with our product team as well as our technology partners to take a new product from conception to production. You will function as a full stack engineer, touching every part of our software stack and helping to map out the future of the product. You will create microservices, integrate with Omniverse, design user interfaces & data-models, and provide tools & APIs for internal development and validation.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Creating microservice applications that interact with cloud infrastructure and robotic systems on the factory floor
- Integrating our existing software systems into the Omniverse platform to enable our next generation of products
- Participating in iterative design and implementation of the application’s UI
- Implementing end-to-end systems from early prototype to full production release
- Maintaining and extending our APIs for third party use
- Contributing to and championing engineering best practices and Agile methodologies
WHAT WE WANT TO SEE
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 10+ years of job experience as Software Engineer or equivalent role
- Strong programming skills in a variety of modern languages (Python, C++, Go)
- Proficiency using NVIDIA’s Omniverse Platform, especially Isaac Sim
- Exceptional 3D modeling, computer algorithm, and problem-solving abilities
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other orchestration and containerization tools
- Strong experience using cloud compute platforms such as Azure, AWS, etc.
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field with a focus in graphics, computational geometry, etc.
- Experience writing physics simulation code from scratch
- Developing applications using frontend frameworks, including React, Angular, or Vue
- Building modern and elegant user interface solutions that are a delight to use
- Creating CI/CD pipelines to help maintain code in production
- Working directly with customers of your software
- Working across the tech stack including code deployment
WHO YOU ARE
- You think big
- You take ownership and drive change
- You always act with integrity, keep your commitments, and practice transparency
- You are customer obsessed
- You thrive in a great team environment to always get the win
BE EMPOWERED TO CHANGE AN INDUSTRY
Bright Machines is an industry-leading software and robotics company that provides a full-stack automation solution for manufacturing. Bright Machines’ flexible automated assembly specializes in building the AI backbone – AI hardware infrastructure. By leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and software applications, Bright Machines reimagines the way products can be designed and manufactured.
With ~160 employees, Bright Machines is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, and has an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. Bright Machines has been previously named “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and one of “America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies” by Forbes.
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What We Do
We deliver intelligent, software-defined manufacturing by bringing together our flexible factory robots with intelligent software, production data and machine learning. Our growing, global team of more than 300 robotics, software and manufacturing industry veterans believe building physical things should be as seamless and simple as creating digital products. Our software-defined manufacturing platform helps customers innovate faster to meet the growing demands of a new era of manufacturing.
