Senior / Staff Software Engineer

Podium Automation is an early-stage startup reimagining industrial control panel manufacturing through software-enabled design and automated fabrication. We’re building technology to create a new industrial supply chain and reduce lead times for critical electrical equipment from months to days. We have raised $5M+ to-date and are backed by a16z’s American Dynamism fund, SV Angel, and Banter Capital.

We are seeking a full-time Senior Software Engineer who is excited to invent new technology in the built world. You will work directly with the founding software engineer, as well as our team of electrical engineers, to write the core software that cuts the electrical design process from weeks down to <24 hours.

What You’ll Do

You will be joining a nimble and growing team (<10 FTEs) as the second software engineer, and as such you will become a founding architect of our technology. You’ll work closely to drive technical roadmap decisions and take them through to execution.

Primary areas of focus:

• Refining and expanding our novel, proprietary data model for industrial devices

• Extracting device data locked up in user manuals and datasheets

• Productizing our device database: giving electrical engineers the tools that make the design process faster and more scalable

• Encoding Podium electrical design principles and patterns into a schematic generator

We are a software-enabled hardware company, so in addition to our core tech you will also take your software chops to other parts of the business that unlock efficiency, such as:

• Uniting data between systems we own and systems we use, such as ECAD and ERP

• Integrating with our ECAD software to automate device modeling

• Managing our on-premise database - ensure access is both secure and speedy

• Integrating with the build process, such as task flow execution and order management

This is a position for someone who thrives working across the stack: writing services, building UIs, spinning up infrastructure. You’re a good fit if you enjoy dabbling outside the traditional bounds of their role: stewarding the product experience, learning how electrical engineers do their job, even cutting steel from time to time.

Required for this role

• Have 5+ years experience building software systems

• Are proficient with TypeScript

• Are proficient with SQL and relational databases

• Have experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Have experience in a startup environment, especially in a technical leadership position

• Ability to work onsite 4-5 days/week at our office in Brooklyn, NY

Previous experience in hardware or manufacturing is not a requirement, but a bonus.

We use Deno, Postgres, SQL Server, HTMX, Docker, Terraform, and AWS.

Additional Information

• Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

• Compensation of $150,000 - $250,000 commensurate with experience, with competitive equity and benefits package.