Key Beliefs

• We believe in in-person collaboration, internally and with customers/partners
• We believe meetings are for shaping/ problem solving, not status updates
• We believe in order to win, this is a team sport and hold one-another accountable to a high bar, publicly
• We believe in first principles and a beginner mindset
• We believe in a bias for action and speed
• We believe in doing the hard things and making trade-offs

Benefits + Perks

We value you at and outside of work and know your loved ones are important. Our benefits are designed to support you and your family’s health through life’s expected and unexpected events.

Our Benefits Include:

• Competitive Salary + Stock Options
• Health Care Coverage + Life Insurance (2X Salary)
• 401K Plan with Company match 
• Health Savings Account + Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Vacation Policy
• Adaptable Working Schedule and Environment

Our Perks Include:

• Casual Dress Attire
• Hybrid work flexibility (2 days work from home)
• Catered Lunches, Snacks and Beverages
• Commuter Transit and Parking Plan
• Company Outings and Happy Hours
• Designated Volunteering Hours + Group Volunteer Events

Sight Machine is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers candidates regardless of age, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Sight Machine also considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

About Sight Machine, Inc.

Sight Machine strengthens manufacturers by providing the industry’s best manufacturing AI and data platform, and system-level visualization capabilities. Our innovative platform integrates all critical data into a single, intuitive  platform, enabling everyone involved in the fabrication process to visualize, contextualize and analyze information seamlessly. Leveraging 3D technology and AI capabilities allows plant operators and managers to get real-time visibility into their manufacturing lines and AI/ML recommendations help improve production, yield and uptime. 

Sight Machine is committed and mission-driven to improve lives, strengthen communities and make the world cleaner by continuously re-envisioning  and improving manufacturing processes,making them more efficient, sustainable and absolute. Founded in Michigan in 2011 and expanded to San Francisco in 2012, Sight Machine blends the Silicon Valley spirit of technology innovation and the down to earth style of Detroit manufacturing. Together, we bring deep industry expertise and a shared commitment to advancing manufacturing towards a more sustainable future.

At Sight Machine, you will work with manufacturing leaders across industries including food & beverage, consumer packaged goods, automotive, packaging, etc. . You will have access to vast amounts of factory floor data, learn how the products you use every day are made, using that knowledge to uncover insights into how customers manufacture products and develop solutions to critical business challenges. Our platform tackles complex problems, including Extract Transform Load (ETL), information retrieval, data aggregation and analytics, factory automation, distributed computing, security, and is leading the expansion into machine learning, agentic and physical AI applications. 

We place great value on professional, technical, and personal growth in an inclusive, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate is passionate  about technology and brings a strong, can-do attitude. They must be able to work in a highly dynamic environment with a good degree of ambiguity. They believe in the company’s mission and are all-in to make themselves and the company successful.

About the role

In this role you will join the Cloud Infrastructure Team and take on tasks that include a focus on automation, tools, deployment, monitoring, managing and optimizing the systems that run Sight Machine software.  You must love learning new technology, have excellent problem solving, and embrace the Infrastructure as Code paradigm. 

Success will take a blend of technical expertise, experience with deployment technology frameworks, customer-centric focus, and a team-spirited approach to solve architectural challenges supporting your peers in Development Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Employing DevOps principles, provide technical operational expertise for comprehensive cloud infrastructure operations for all customers, internal and external
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems problems across multiple layers of the systems stack from ci/cd, container-based systems, networking, operating systems, cloud resources, and databases
• Instrument Monitoring and Alerting infrastructure for critical services
• Creating, revising, and testing operational runbooks and automation for maintaining Sight Machine Infrastructure
• Design and code appropriate tools to support our internal platforms and systems
• Participate in our on-call schedule
• Proactively pursue opportunities of operational innovation to improved stability, reliability, and availability of Sight Machines services

Requirements

• Embody a Quality-first and Security-first culture in all that you do
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes / Docker in at least one of the top tier cloud providers such as Azure, GCP or AWS
• 5+ years of experience coding with languages including Python, Java, Go and Terraform
• 5+ years of experience using IaC and CI/CD tools including FluxCD (or similar), Jenkins, Terraform and Github
• Strong experience with Linux
• Strong working knowledge of Networking (TCP/IP and Application)
• A willingness to author technical documentation for design, workflows, processes, best practices, etc
• Willing to mentor other team members and engineers
• Strong bias for action vs endless planning, you’re hands on, have made a mistakes, learned from them and can balance risk vs. impact to customers
• You value clear communication and you're empathetic and respectful of others
• Operational experience with monitoring/alerting systems such as Sentry, Opsgenie, Prometheus
• Deep understanding of cloud performance, and how to diagnose and resolve bottlenecks, and keep the performance at optimal levels

Nice to Haves

• Experience with elements of our current tech stack are a plus: Kubernetes, FluxCD, Terraform, Helm Charts, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Python, Java, Kafka, Postgres, and Jenkins
• Previous experience or a keen interest in industrial IoT, analytics, or manufacturing a plus