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Acceler8 Talent ยท 3 weeks ago

Lead Software Automation Engineer

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$200K/yr - $300K/yr

Acceler8 Talent is a company building AI systems that can interact with the physical world at scale. They are seeking a Lead Software Automation Engineer to build automation pipelines, develop structured APIs, and collaborate with various teams to integrate automated toolchains into production workflows.

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Hiring Manager
Kirstie Moffat
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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Automation pipelinesAPIs developmentFault-tolerant automationEngineering tools automationScriptingSystems thinkingWorkflow orchestrationIntegrationCollaboration

Required

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

Benefits

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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

Company

Acceler8 Talent

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Acceler8 Talent partners with technology companies to propel their funding and business forward.
dateFounded in 2019
location
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
http://www.acceler8talent.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Acceler8 Talent has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)
2023 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage

Leadership Team

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Sam McBroom
Director
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