Job Description

Software Engineer (Edge Computing)

Palo Alto, CA | Engineering | Hybrid | Full-time

Instrumental technology is used by the world’s most admired electronics brands — including Meta, NVIDIA, Bose, and Cisco — to significantly reduce the $12T lost every year to downtime, scrap, and mistakes in manufacturing. Our system collects data directly from the factory floor and uses proprietary AI to automatically identify and resolve issues, helping teams improve yield, quality, and time to market.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Edge Computing team owning the software and systems that power Instrumental’s in-factory stations — the edge computing deployment extending our SaaS platform to the factory floor with cameras, sensors, high end CPU/GPU, computer vision algorithms and AI inferencing. You will have a direct and highly visible impact on the company’s growth and customer satisfaction.

Our company values are Play to Win, Be Helpful, and Work with Joy . Individuals who are interested in moving fast, collaborating hard, and taking ownership of their work + growing their skills will thrive at Instrumental. In this role, you’ll be part of the engineering team working closely with Product, SRE, and customer facing field engineers for both pre- and post-sales engagements, giving you plenty of chances to stretch yourself, learn quickly, take ownership, build impactful products, and make a difference for Instrumental and yourself!

What You Will Do:

• Take ownership of our Edge Computing platform.
• Extend its functionality with new features.
• Continuously improve its performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve the deployment, SaaS integration, and ongoing operational efficiencies.
• Exercise curiosity and initiative. Always looking for better ways to build and to learn.
• Build core components and features for our Edge Computing platform
  • Contribute to the software and systems that power Instrumental’s in-factory stations.
  • Develop features and improvements across our embedded Linux environment, device services, and application code.
  • Write reliable, maintainable code that keeps stations running smoothly in real factory environments.
• Contribute to reliability and engineering quality
  • Participate in code reviews and design discussions to ensure we continually raise the bar on quality.
  • Contribute to team processes, documentation, and standards that support reliability and long-term maintainability.
  • Bring curiosity and initiative — whether improving a tool, suggesting a simplification, or learning a new part of the system.
• Collaborate with teammates across Engineering, Product, and Ops
  • Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and scope.
  • Deliver incremental milestones to gather feedback and iterate rapidly with our Product team.
  • Validate assumptions and ensure solutions address real customer needs.
  • Communicate progress and surface risks early to keep partners aligned.

We’d Love to Chat if You Have:

• 2+ years of experience delivering production code and/or solid educational background.
• Proficiency in Javascript or Typescript.
• Experience working with Node.js.
• Experience with embedded systems or interest in learning the domain.
• Great communication skills.
• Extreme open mindset. New technologies, new frameworks, AI tools, bring them on!
• A genuine interest in understanding customer problems — you’re serious about what problems customers are facing, use cases, how to build solutions, how to engage with stakeholders to seek feedback and how to act upon it.
• Passion of the startup do-er culture, own it, figure things out, win as a team, do whatever it takes.

Bonus Points if You Have Experience With:

• One or more systems programming languages: C, C++, Rust, etc.
• Embedded systems.

We’re a growing team that works collaboratively, is supportive of each other, and is highly energized by the opportunity for a large impact. We actively work to promote an inclusive environment, valuing passion and the ability to learn. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description!

The following is a representative annual base salary range for this position within the Bay Area: $162-180k. Job level and salary opportunities are evaluated through our interview process – we review the experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of each applicant.

Instrumental is proud to offer a highly-rated variety of benefits, including health, vision, dental, commuter plans, and parental leave.

Req ID: R37

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