Lead Software Automation Engineer

7 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Acceler8 Talent Full time

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



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