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Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA

About Us

Conduit is building a factory operating system to power manufacturers across the globe. Combining custom hardware, on-prem compute, and an end-to-end software stack, we’re actively controlling robots, automating tasks, and accelerating the world’s industrial base. Backed by leading investors, we’ve built a team that prizes cross-disciplinary ownership and gets to the factory floor at lighting speed.

With a full digital understanding of the physical world, we’re scaling rapidly across all industries to drive forward American industrial dominance. Apply within to work with us to accelerate the future of material abundance.

The Role

  • Lead end-to-end implementation of Python based services to ingest, store, tokenize/index, and search manufacturing documentation

  • Architect scalable processing pipelines for documents, video, and mixed-media content by evaluating and integrating various tools (OCR, MMLMs, VLMs, YOLO etc.) 

  • Build infrastructure to support functionality including cycle time tracking and workflows 

  • Collaborate with ML, frontend, and robotics teams to deliver integrated solutions

You Bring

  • Solid experience with Python backend development and ML, RAG, NLP architectures

  • Proven track record leading service creation at scale

  • Experience building search and indexing systems for unstructured data

  • Availability to work EST hours

Bonus Points

  • Experience with high-frequency data streaming technologies (Kafka, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, ROS)

  • Background in combining siloed data systems and breaking down information barriers

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure as code

  • Familiarity with manufacturing processes, MES/ERP systems, or IIOT

  • Experience with video processing and multi-modal search systems

What We Offer

  • Top tier pay and equity: We want to make it easy to be at Conduit.

  • Generational opportunity. Be early at a company defining the software layer for industrial automation.

  • American re-industrialization is happening. We’re building the platform to make it real — faster.

  • Zero bureaucracy. High impact. You’ll be on the front lines, solving real problems for real factories.

  • You will level up. You’ll work directly with the founder and exec team

    Interested candidates email resume, cover letter, and/or GitHub to danny@conduit.inc

    Conduit is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

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