Infrastructure Engineer

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

As part of the IT organization, you will work closely with the R&D team developing factory automation applications. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams that design, manufacture, and commission software-defined manufacturing lines for our customers, with key elements of the software stack deployed in the cloud.

You will be responsible for designing, building, installing, and maintaining the compute and network infrastructure that supports these manufacturing lines. A strong background in networking is essential, as you will be architecting and supporting a hybrid cloud environment that enables global customer needs in areas such as new product introduction, inspection, monitoring, and alerting.

This position also values automation and efficiency; proficiency with scripting (e.g., Python, PowerShell, or similar) is highly desirable for streamlining infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. The role requires full lifecycle ownership of the infrastructure backbone, and periodic travel on-site work at customer facilities.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Participate in the design and implementation of our hybrid cloud backbone.
• Design, provision, configure and maintain :
• OS : Linux and Windows systems
• Network : Physical network equipment, and its configuration
• Storage : Network attached storage
• Physical Systems : Procure, ship, and install servers, network equipment, and cabling in a rack
• Install, test, and troubleshoot equipment in server racks at customer facilities
• Evaluate and design highly available compute and network stacks
• Full lifecycle : we behave as owners, and expect you to work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility, to keep improving what we do. That includes defining and implementing standards, and promote best practices for our infrastructure.

WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU HAD

$140,000 - $170,000 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.