Lead Software Automation Engineer
GW194
Posted: 05/01/2026
- $200,000-$300,000
- San Francisco, CA
- Permanent
About the job
Lead Software Automation Engineer - San Francisco, CA
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.
What Will I Be Doing:
- 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 toolchains into production workflows
What We're Looking For:
- 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
What's In It For Me:
- 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!
Kirstie Moffat
ML Research & Engineering Recruiter