Senior Software Engineer - Factory Platform
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Job Description
About the Team:
The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.
About the Role:
You'll build our entire in-house ERP stack from scratch - manufacturing execution systems (MES), production planning engines, and durable workflow orchestration that runs our factory autonomously. The core challenge is automating complex manufacturing processes that span weeks while handling failures gracefully. You'll join our 8-person Factory Platform team within the 40-person Terrestrial Software organization. Direct collaboration with manufacturing engineers, test engineers, and operations staff.
Day-to-day: Design workflow engines that coordinate hundreds of interdependent manufacturing steps. Build state machines that handle multi-week production cycles with automatic retry logic, human escalation, and rollback capabilities. Write planning algorithms that optimize schedules around material constraints, equipment availability, and test windows. Create fully-featured web applications used by technicians, engineers, and operators across the factory - everything from work order management to real-time process monitoring and intervention tools.
The challenge: Building enterprise software that doesn't suck. Durable workflow execution across weeks-long manufacturing cycles, automated decision-making with human oversight, and state management for hundreds of concurrent processes. Plus planning algorithms that optimize around physical constraints and real-time factory conditions.
Stack:
- Backend: Python, Go, Postgres
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, DBT, Spark
- Data: Iceberg, DuckDB, Redshift
About You:
- 7+ years shipping production software
- Expert-level React and modern frontend patterns
- Experience designing and maintaining service architectures that support complex business workflows
- Strong track record working directly with users to gather requirements, validate assumptions, and iterate on solutions
- Experience implementing reliable workflows at scale - handling failure scenarios, state recovery, and distributed coordination
- CS/Engineering degree or equivalent depth
Nice to haves but not required:
- Systems programming background, workflow orchestration experience (Temporal, Airflow, etc.), or manufacturing automation domain knowledge.
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