Software Engineer

Manufacturing/AI Startup | London (on-site)

Compensation: Up to £150k + equity package

About

This is a VC-backed startup rebuilding manufacturing from first principles.

The mission is simple: re-industrialise the West. Today’s supply chains are slow, fragile, and opaque. This team is building a system where production is local, fast, and software-driven.

They’re not adding software to legacy factories. They’re rebuilding the entire stack – treating manufacturing like a distributed system, not a series of manual processes.

The team is ~15, heavily engineering-led. You’ll work directly with the shop floor – code shipped in the morning can control machines the same day.

What you'll do

• Build a real-time orchestration system that plans and routes production across factories
• Design deterministic systems that operators can understand and trust
• Integrate AI agents to automate decisions like order splitting, routing, and material planning
• Develop core products from scratch – scheduling, inventory, and production systems
• Improve routing and planning through data, feedback loops, and model iteration
• Work directly with operators to turn real-world problems into shipped product

What you'll need

• 2–10 years of experience building and shipping production systems
• Strong academic background in a STEM discipline
• Generalist across backend, infrastructure, and data systems
• Strong coding fundamentals (TypeScript stack, but not required)
• Experience running systems in production (cloud, reliability, debugging)
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments
• Able to move quickly and pick up unfamiliar problems fast
• Strong problem-solving – can turn messy real-world constraints into working systems
• Evidence of working through genuinely hard problems

This is closer to building a distributed systems platform for factories than traditional manufacturing software.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 48 hours.