Network Engineer, Autonomous Factory

The posting, as Foundry Robotics wrote it

ABOUT US

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Basically, we’re building robots that build robots.

Factory OS is building software that runs factories. Our platform spans cloud backends, on-prem services, and edge devices deployed on the factory floor. The operators, supervisors, and managers who use our tools need interfaces that are fast, reliable, and intuitive—even when network conditions aren’t perfect and the environment is demanding.

THE ROLE

As a Network Engineer, Autonomous Factory, you’ll design and build that network from the ground up for a 130,000 sq. ft. autonomous manufacturing facility, and then own it as we scale.

You’ll work across the full network stack: physical infrastructure, switching and routing, server and GPU rack fabric, segmentation between industrial and IT systems, wireless, and core services including DHCP, DNS, and time synchronization. You’ll also own the WAN and VPN edge, the overlay network engineers use to securely reach the factory floor, and the security boundaries required for ITAR and CMMC 2.0 Level 2 compliance.

This is a deeply hands-on role. You’ll be in the ceiling, in the racks, and in the packet captures, while also working with engineering and manufacturing teams to design how new robotic work cells should be connected before the first one is ever built.

If you want to build critical infrastructure from the ground up and have a direct role in enabling a truly autonomous factory, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact from day one.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Founder mentality: We love people who build like it’s their own company. You move fast, take ownership, and find a way through when the path isn’t obvious. You have the drive to make big things happen and the judgment to take smart risks along the way. If you prefer a clearly defined lane, a predictable pace, and all the answers before you start, there’s nothing wrong with that—but Foundry might not be the right fit.

• Produce the network design for the factory: physical plant, logical topology, IP plan, segmentation model, redundancy, and capacity. Get it built with contractors and facilities.
• Design and stand up the server and GPU rack fabric: high-speed top-of-rack, out-of-band management, storage traffic, and coordination with power and cooling.
• Wire and segment robotic work cells: controllers, safety systems, fieldbus segments, edge compute, cameras, and operator stations. Make robotics middleware discovery and multicast behave.
• Own the WAN and VPN edge: redundant private connectivity to the cloud that actually fails over, with monitoring that catches lost redundancy before it becomes an outage.
• Run the overlay network and its interaction with the underlay. Design so overlay routing can never hijack local traffic.
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• AWS networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN or Direct Connect, private DNS.
• Video and camera networks with high camera counts and bandwidth planning.
• PTP or other precision time sync for robotics or measurement.
• Prior work under ITAR, CMMC, or NIST SP 800-171, ideally producing assessment evidence.

WHY JOIN US?

This is one of the only places where world-class manufacturing operators, mechanical engineers, robotics researchers, and software engineers sit in the same room — building production systems together.

We are committed to being deeply embedded in the U.S. industrial base. Our focus is simple: build adaptive robotic assembly systems that make American manufacturing scalable, resilient, and competitive again.

If you want to run a mature, well-defined commercial org, this may not be the role.

If you want to build the commercial engine that brings AI-driven manufacturing to every industrial and energy customer in America — this is it.

The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of Emeryville is:

$150,000—$250,000 USD

Compensation packages at Foundry Robotics for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Foundry Robotics employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, and generous PTO.

Foundry Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.