Lead Software Automation Engineer

  • Acceler8 Talent
  • San Francisco, California
  • 04/02/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications Cisco

Job Description

This range is provided by Acceler8 Talent. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience - talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$200,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr

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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!

Seniority level

Mid Senior level

Employment type

Full time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting