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Member of Technical Staff, DSL for Automation & Electrical CAD

Outerport
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$100k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Role focused on owning the technical development of the electrical & automation control DSL, simulator, and drawing generation system. Developing a model-based engineering framework for multi-scale circuit simulation spanning plants, control panels, and PCB design. Collaborate with customers and a small engineering team to build typed object-based frameworks, renderers, simulators, and artifact-conversion tools to drive commissioning and training.

Responsibilities

  • Design typed object-based frameworks (or DSLs) for electrical systems, control systems, piping networks, etc.
  • Create renderers to convert DSLs into artifacts (2D drawings, 3D models)
  • Build interactive simulators and engineering calculators to guide commissioning and training
  • Develop systems to convert existing design artifacts into the modeling language and simulate original artifacts
  • Work directly with customers to improve and deliver the product

Qualifications

  • 6 or more years of professional experience in a relevant industry (CAD vendor, digital engineering software, or equivalent project experience)
  • Experience as a technical leader, architecting and building entire software frameworks
  • Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, Python, Go, TypeScript, Zig, or similar languages
  • Strong computer science fundamentals (programming languages, formal verification, compilers)
  • Strong communication skills

Skills

Required:C++RustPythonComputer science fundamentals
Nice to have:GoTypeScriptZig
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Turn diagrams, technical documents, and CAD into structured data

Extract structured data from documents, tables, P&ID diagrams, process flow diagrams, GD&T drawings, electrical CAD, blueprints, and more. Build AI agents with tools that help them understand and measure the world.

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