Software Application 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

We are looking for a top-notch Software Application Engineer specializing in robotics programming to be a part of our software automation team in Guadalajara.

What You Will Be Doing

• Software architecture and design
• APIs and integration with ERP, shop-floor management systems and machine controls (PLCs, drivers, robot controllers, industrial communications protocols)
• Collaborate with IT (interfaces, security, company standards)
• Automatic data gathering, statistics, analytics and representation through reports and dashboards
• Create and maintain related controlled documentation
• Support system commissioning, qualification and de-bugging
• Manage software configuration control and release

What We Want To See

• BSc degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in: multi-disciplinary systems and multi-software platforms
• Industrial automation and industrial equipment controls, manufacturing process
• PLC/IPC logic and programming, troubleshooting and configuration with industry leading vendors (Beckhoff, Modicon, Keyence, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Aromat)
• Serial & Bus Communication protocols: e.g. Ethernet/Profinet, RS232/422/485, Modbus, CAN Open, IO-Link, EtherCAT, Profibus, TCP/IP and others
• Robotics programming: Fanuc, Nachi, Epson, Kuka, Denso
• Knowledge in ROS (Robot Operating System)
• Knowledge in Kubernetes or Docker
• Python
• Technical savvy, system oriented, great aptitude to machines, processes and controls
• Love to work in a dynamic environment
• Capable of analyzing, de-bugging and solving complex problems
• Team player
• Linux Knowledge
• Proficient in programming

It Would Be Great If You Had

• Great communicator
• Passionate and creative, hands-on, love to code
• Well organized, pays attention to detail, methodical
• English at a high level (written and oral)

$30,000 - $40,000 a month

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.