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Acceler8 Talent lists this Lead Software Automation Engineer opportunity in san francisco, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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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
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Worksite address
san francisco, CA, 94199, US
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