Software Automation Engineer

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 Direct message the job poster from Acceler8 Talent 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr