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Member of Technical Staff, DSL for Automation & Electrical CAD

Outerport · San Francisco, CA, US / Tokyo, JP / Remote (US; JP; CA) · Remote

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About Outerport

Design automation for industrial electrical controls. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We’re looking for a candidate to own the technical development of our electrical & automation control DSL, simulator, and drawing generation system. We are building out a model-based engineering & requirement engineering framework for multi-scale circuit simulation, that spans physical artifacts from industrial plants (process controls) to control panels (automation) to circuit board design. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 6 or more years of professional experience in a relevant industry (for example, a CAD vendor, a digital engineering software company, or a user company, etc) or otherwise equivalent project experience
  • Experience being a technical leader, architecting and building entire software frameworks
  • Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, Python, Go, TypeScript, Zig, or similar languages, across mutliple parts of the system
  • Strong computer science fundamentals (programming languages, formal verification, compilers, etc)
  • Strong communication skills
More about this role

We’re looking for a candidate to own the technical development of our electrical & automation control DSL, simulator, and drawing generation system. We are building out a model-based engineering & requirement engineering framework for multi-scale circuit simulation, that spans physical artifacts from industrial plants (process controls) to control panels (automation) to circuit board design. The previous era of software in this space had humans as the primary users for modeling, which led to this sort of software only being adopted in narrow areas. The new modeling users of the next era are programming agents that speak in code, as well as humans that interact with a high-fidelity, multi-scale simulator to guide comissioning (i.e. testing that the physical, constructed control system matches the design) and operator training.

This is a challenging product with lots of moving parts; a modeling language for these systems that can run simulations at various LODs (levels of details), being able to convert contradictory design artifacts (like drawings, Excel spreadsheets) in to the modeling language, and interfacing with external software (high fidelity simulators) as well as hardware...

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