Staff Software Engineer, Factory Systems Lead

About the Job

This role owns the software layer that helps a modern factory actually run. You will architect and evolve a lean systems stack across operations, quality, maintenance, and visibility, with the freedom to decide where software should be bought, built, or avoided entirely.

What You'll Do

- Architect the systems layer supporting production, quality, maintenance, and decision-making

- Evaluate build vs. buy tradeoffs across core factory software domains

- Design lightweight workflows and data models for greenfield and rapidly evolving operating environments

- Partner with engineering and operations teams across internal sites and selected external programs

- Help create a stack that can flex across new process categories and strategic manufacturing efforts

Required Qualifications

- Experience building or owning software systems used in live operational environments

- Strong product and architectural judgment in messy, cross-functional domains

- Ability to simplify workflows rather than mirror complexity in software

- Experience integrating multiple systems into a coherent operating model

- Willingness to stay close to users and make pragmatic tradeoffs

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with factory software domains such as SCADA, MES, HMI, analytics, CMMS, or quality systems

- Experience in manufacturing or other high-consequence operational settings

- Strong instincts around instrumentation and operational feedback loops

- Experience replacing heavyweight enterprise processes with lean internal systems

- Familiarity with strategic materials, process-intensive manufacturing, or adjacent regulated environments