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Senior System Engineer - Automation/Robotics

Bright Machines

Bright Machines

San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 150k-190k / year
Posted on Mar 13, 2026
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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.
We are seeking an experienced System Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, and deployment of advanced robotic automation systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including mechanical & electrical engineers, software developers, and project managers, to deliver cutting-edge automation solutions to our clients.
This role requires a strong systems engineering mindset, including requirements definition, risk analysis (PFMEA), and system-level verification and validation (V&V), along with the ability to leverage software tools such as Python to support system integration and analysis.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

  • Collaborate with project teams to define system requirements and specifications.
  • Integrate BM various hardware and software components into cohesive and functional systems.
  • Create PFMEA, process flow and value stream maps (where required) and work with the design team to resolve all failure mode points within the design
  • Develop and execute test plans to ensure system functionality and reliability.
  • Ensure through each phase gate that all design metrics are being challenged and met
  • Leverage system data and software tools to identify opportunities for process optimization and system performance improvements.
  • Clearly define solution requirements and own the system-level success of the overall automation solution and its subsystems, and drive it to success through the entire project lifecycle in partnership with program management and engineering
  • Travel up to 40%, primarily domestically

WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

    • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.

    • Hands-on engineer with strong technical skill, execution capabilities, system view, collaborative, process-oriented and self-learner

    • 5+ years of system engineering experience, ideally with hands on experience in automation,robotics, or advanced manufacturing environments

    • Ability to demonstrate relevant past experience and projects.

    • Experience with system requirements definition, PFMEA, and system-level verification and validation (V&V).

    • Highly collaborative person with excellent communication skills to work closely with Sales, suppliers, System Architect, Design Engineers Technical Program Managers and senior management to ensure all failure modes from the PFMEA have been designed in and meet SOW requirements

    • Familiarity with Python or other scripting languages for automation, data analysis, or system tooling.

    • Ability to carefully read technical documents (RFQ’s and SOW’s) and the ability to translate requirements into economically feasible automation concepts

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD

    • AutoCAD and/or SolidWorks experience

    • Proficiency in Python for scripting, test automation, or data analysis in engineering environments.

    • Technical Sales or Quoting experience responding to RFQs and SOWs

    • Design for automation experience, queueing simulation, FMEA, and GR&R experience

    • Vision systems experience, SMT, PLC programming, robot programming, and machine learning exposure.

    • Experience working with system logs, telemetry, APIs, or data pipelines for machine diagnostics or manufacturing analytics.

    • Industry 4.0, IoT, SPC and other smart factory concepts

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.

200000 - 210000 USD a year

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