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Bright Machines

Senior Platform Engineer

full-time•San Francisco•$160k - $190k

Summary

Location

San Francisco

Salary

$160k - $190k

Type

full-time

Experience

5-10 years

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About this role

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


Platform Engineers at Bright Machines design, build and manage scalable and secure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and tools to enable fast-paced development of mission-critical & complex industrial automation applications. You will work directly with multiple Software Engineering and AI/ML teams to build and deploy reliable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling. Your expertise will be pivotal in designing, developing and maintaining our stack, which includes:

- AWS and Azure Cloud

- Kubernetes (managed and on-prem/self-hosted)

- Infrastructure-as-Code

- GitLab CI and GitOps

- GPU-based workloads

- Metrics/logs/trace collection

- Monitoring and alerting

- Hardware-in-the-loop testing


This is an exciting opportunity to work with R&D teams designing & building software-defined automation solutions for modern factories. Our integrated solution consists of both on-prem and cloud infrastructure to operate and monitor the robotic assembly lines.

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WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for running applications and automation systems.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes using tools like Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, ArgoCD
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient and continuous delivery of software updates.
  • Implement and manage logging, monitoring, and alerting systems, for troubleshooting and ensuring high availability & reliability of the services.
  • Drive “shift-left & shift-right” on security. Ensure scans, compliance with the policies and best practices, including vulnerability management and incident response.
  • Participate in on-call rotation for supporting our deployed systems
  • Be the champion of best-practices and grow a strong DevOps culture


WHAT YOU WILL BRING
  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps role.
  • Proven track-record of building & maintaining infrastructure for mission critical applications / services.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and GitOps methodologies.
  • Experienced writing code in Python and/or Shell
  • Expertise in public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Strong experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management tools (Ansible)
  • Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes & containerization tools
  • Experience with observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog/etc)
  • Experience with HA workloads


IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD
  • Experience in restrictive/air-gapped environments


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$160,000 - $190,000 a year
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BE EMPOWERED TO CHANGE AN INDUSTRY 


Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure assembly operations. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). With its new AI factory, Bright Machines addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI and the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing by building data center infrastructure at scale with higher quality and shorter time-to-market.


Bright Machines is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an integration center in Guadalajara, Mexico. The company has been recognized as one of Forbes’ AI 50, awarded “Best AI-based Solution for Manufacturing” by AI Breakthrough, named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and highlighted by several other leading technology and innovation organizations.

 

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for running applications and automation systems. Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes while ensuring high availability and reliability of services.

About Bright Machines

Bright Machines is a next-generation, AI-enabled manufacturer focused on data center infrastructure assembly operations. Bright Machines uses its proprietary AI-based robotics and software to assemble AI infrastructure hardware products (i.e., data center servers) for hyperscalers and leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). With its new AI factory, Bright Machines addresses increasing market demands for computing power due to the surge of AI and the U.S. national mandate to reshore manufacturing by building data center infrastructure at scale with higher quality and shorter time-to-market.

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