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
At Bright Machines, we are transforming the future of manufacturing with intelligent, software-driven automation. Our applications help designers create products that are optimized for automated assembly, making factories more efficient and effective.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a central role in developing applications that help designers create products optimized for automated assembly. Your focus will be on building geometric representations and visualizations of complex CAD models, enabling engineers to design better for manufacturability.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a greenfield development effort that will change the way companies build and produce products. If you’re ready to apply exceptional engineering practices and build software that will define the next generation in manufacturing, this is your opportunity to “Be Bright”.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and deploy core algorithmic components powering the DFAA Engine.
- Write advanced algorithms in C++ and Rust to determine if CAD models meet assembly requirements.
- Translate academic and industry research into production-ready software solutions.
- Explore and apply AI/ML methods to enhance manufacturability analysis and automation workflows.
- Partner with CAD designers, DFX engineers, and software teams to refine algorithm requirements.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code; conduct peer reviews to ensure high-quality standards.
- Build comprehensive unit and integration tests for production reliability.
- Prototype and evaluate new computational approaches for complex geometry and assembly challenges.
- Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum environment, delivering high-quality software on ambitious timelines.
What You Will Bring
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience with focus on computational geometry, graphics, or CAD-related applications.
- Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.
- Experience implementing graphics algorithms and working with 3D data structures.
- Knowledge of CAD model representations, geometry kernels, or computational geometry libraries.
- Familiarity with USD (Universal Scene Description) or similar model translation/serialization formats.
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices across the SDLC (CI/CD, testing, code reviews, source control).
- Ability to optimize applications for performance and scalability.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work closely with engineers, designers, and product teams.
IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU HAD
- Experience building interactive 3D visualizations for the web (e.g., WebGL, Three.js , Babylon.js ).
- Familiarity with manufacturing or mechanical engineering systems.
- Experience with geometry processing, meshing, or CAD data translation pipelines.
- Knowledge of cloud-based rendering and visualization solutions.
- Background in real-time graphics, simulation, or robotics.
- Contributions to open-source graphics or CAD libraries.
- Experience writing physics simulation code from scratch
- Developing applications using frontend frameworks, including React, Angular, or Vue
- Building modern and elegant user interface solutions that are a delight to use
- Working across the tech stack including code deployment
$180,000 - $230,000 a year
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.