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Grafton Sciences ยท 1 month ago

Lead Software Automation / Toolchain Engineer

positionRedwood City
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff

Grafton Sciences is focused on building physical general intelligence through autonomous systems. They are seeking a Software/Tooling Lead Engineer to automate and unify engineering workflows across CAD, EDA, and scientific tools.

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Responsibilities

Build automation pipelines and adapters for CAD, EDA, and other tools, enabling programmatic and deterministic execution
Develop structured APIs, log parsers, error classifiers, and reproducible workflows that integrate seamlessly with orchestration and agent systems
Implement tool-wrapping scripts, automated validation routines, and parameterized flows across commercial and open-source engineering platforms
Collaborate closely with tooling platform engineers, agent systems, ML teams, and domain experts to integrate automated toolchains into real workflows

Qualification

Automation of engineering toolsScriptingAPIsWorkflow orchestrationSystems-thinking abilityFault-tolerant automationCollaboration with ML teamsIntegration with engineering tools

Required

Experience automating engineering or scientific tools (e.g., CAD, EDA, CAE, CAM, COMSOL) using scripting, APIs, or workflow orchestration
Strong systems-thinking ability and comfort working across heterogeneous domain tools, file formats, and execution environments
Demonstrated ability to build reproducible, fault-tolerant automation pipelines and structured tool interfaces
Comfortable working with ML, simulation, and tooling platform teams to bridge real engineering tools into agent-driven workflows

Benefits

Meaningful equity
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Company

Grafton Sciences

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Building systems of general physical ability to enable superintelligence
dateFounded in 2024
location
Redwood City, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.graftonsciences.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
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