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Software Engineer, Cyber Physical Systems

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  • Kairos Power
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Alameda, CA

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain software for test systems, industrial operations, SCADA workflows, data acquisition, and analysis.
  • Develop operator and engineering tools using Ignition Perspective or similar SCADA/HMI platforms.
  • Create PostgreSQL-backed applications, including schemas, queries, integrations, and data quality improvements.
  • Build APIs and integrations connecting software tools, databases, SCADA systems, PLCs, and plant data systems.
  • Support software interfaces with PLC-controlled systems, including Rockwell Automation Studio 5000 environments.
  • Develop tools and algorithms for trend analysis, anomaly detection, and identification of off-normal system behavior.
  • Improve software delivery through automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, documentation, and developer workflow improvements.
  • Support live applications used during industrial facility operations and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering and operations stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 2–4 years of experience developing software applications, services, scripts, APIs, or data integrations.
  • Programming experience in one or more of Python, Java, React, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL-based relational databases; non-relational database experience is a plus.
  • Preferred experience with Ignition Perspective or similar SCADA/HMI platforms, SCADA, HMI, electronic procedures, plant simulators, or control-system programming.
  • Preferred familiarity with PLC systems, Rockwell Automation Studio 5000, Allen-Bradley PLCs, industrial protocols, and PLC-to-SCADA integration.
  • Preferred experience with automated testing, CI/CD, deployment automation, DevOps workflows, GitHub Actions, and Docker.
  • Preferred experience with data acquisition, control, analysis, visualization, AI/ML, anomaly detection, or analytics applied to engineering or operational data.
  • Preferred experience in laboratory, research, test, industrial, manufacturing, energy, aerospace, semiconductor, robotics, or other hardware-oriented environments.
  • Ability to troubleshoot software, data, API, data acquisition, and industrial control issues and communicate technical information clearly.
  • Ability to work independently, support deployed operational systems, document technical designs and procedures, and collaborate with multidisciplinary stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents.
  • Paid vacation.
  • 401(k), pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits through FSA programs.
  • Full-time employee benefits exclude interns.
  • Onsite position at the Alameda, California headquarters.
  • Some travel may be required, approximately 10%.
  • Occasional overtime, weekend work, schedule flexibility, non-standard work-week hours, and extended hours may be required.
  • Work may involve industrial facilities, PPE, ladders or lifts, confined spaces, outdoor conditions, noise, temperature extremes, and handling objects up to 10 pounds.

Salary: $92k - $109k/yr

Kairos Power

Kairos Power designs and commercializes advanced nuclear reactors using a fluoride-salt coolant to deliver high-temperature, low-carbon energy for utilities and industrial customers. The company develops, licenses, and builds demonstration systems as a path to fleet deployment, with offerings spa...

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