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Job Title

Principal Software Engineer, Lead

This role is currently hybrid/remote, with some travel expected

About the Job

We are looking for a principal-level engineer to help define a long-horizon technical roadmap in industrial software and adjacent systems. This role is for someone who wants to work on problems that are structurally important, technically non-obvious, and worth years of effort if they work.

What You'll Do

• Drive high-risk, high-upside technical bets with long-term platform potential

• Work with other senior engineers to identify where new abstractions unlock disproportionate value

• Lead architecture and prototyping in areas such as system modeling, simulation, languages, or developer tooling

• Shape software that can support future manufacturing categories, strategic materials efforts, and distributed operating models

• Raise the technical ambition and quality bar across the organization

Required Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and building complex software systems

• Exceptional architectural judgment and comfort working from first principles

• Ability to identify high-leverage technical problems before they are obvious

• Track record of leading consequential technical work with incomplete requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication with senior technical peers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with simulation, modeling, compilers, languages, or formal system abstractions

• Experience in industrial, robotics, infrastructure, or other software-for-physical-systems domains

• History of building foundational technical capabilities, not just product features

• Interest in hard technical problems with multi-year payoff

• Familiarity with public-private initiatives, strategic supply-chain programs, or externally supported technical efforts