What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer: AI position at Copia Automation?
Who you are
As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers while we change the way everything gets built.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you bring experience across Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure Engineering. You take ownership of technical projects (ideally with prior experience solving similar problems) and provide thought leadership. You’re comfortable making architectural decisions, guiding other engineers, and helping set the technical direction of the product.
Building products for the industrial automation space requires knowledge uncommon to most software engineering jobs. In your day-to-day, you’ll learn about a wide variety of industrial automation topics.
About us
Copia Automation provides best-in-class disaster and recovery technology for industrial automation.
Our product brings modern developer tools to the OT space through our novel Git-based source control for automation professionals, with multiple delivery methods including self-hosted and fully hosted options. We are a well-funded startup with a growing list of happy customers throughout the industrial space.
As a Copia employee, you’ll solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers, while we change the way everything gets built.
Why industrial automation?
Manufacturing is powered by industrial automation—computerized systems and robotics running on PLCs. This ecosystem uses a unique graphical language that doesn’t work with typical developer tools like GitLab or GitHub. Instead, automation professionals rely on physical storage devices, incompatible tools, and incomplete solutions. When minutes of downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars, better development tools are urgently needed.
Engineering at Copia
The Copia engineering team solves problems through collaboration, experimentation, and ownership. We pair on tough issues and look for ways to test our assumptions. You’ll join a team that encourages ownership and values pragmatic solutions, weighing short-term needs and long-term goals.
Finally, we’re optimistic. We celebrate successes, support each other through unexpected challenges, and approach problems with a positive attitude.
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Ship full-stack features end to end, handling everything from the backend data models to the final user experience.
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Make AI coding agents a central part of how you work to increase your velocity while maintaining high standards.
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Drive the technical direction of your projects, including architectural decisions and technical specs.
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Collaborate with Product and Design to scope out work, balancing quick wins with long-term stability.
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Write code that is easy to scale and maintain, and help raise the quality of the codebase through thoughtful reviews and testing.
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Teach the team how to better leverage AI tools by sharing what you have learned and setting best practices.
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Write clear documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences.
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Guide and mentor other engineers, helping them improve their skills and ship code with confidence.
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Talk directly with customers and executives to turn complex industrial challenges into clear engineering tasks.
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5 years of professional software engineering experience shipping production software on a team using standard best practices (code review, CI/CD, testing).
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A strong full-stack background, with the ability to build polished frontends and robust backend services.
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Daily experience with AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot, and a good sense of their strengths and weaknesses.
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Deep knowledge of at least one statically-typed language. We use Go, TypeScript, and C#, but we care more about your engineering depth than the specific language.
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A history of delivering complex projects on time and the ability to explain the technical choices you made along the way.
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Great instincts for prioritization and the ability to take an ambiguous problem and find a clear solution.
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Comfort making architectural decisions and providing technical guidance to other engineers.
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Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical details to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
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Eagerness to dig into a complex domain. You don't need to know PLCs on day one, but you should be excited to learn how factories actually run.
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Previous experience adding AI-powered features into a product
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Experience at a growth-stage, venture-backed startup, scaling tools from small betas to thousands or millions of users.
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Experience with our stack or adjacent technologies: TypeScript / Node.js, React, Go, C#, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS.
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Experience building developer tools or working on Git internals, CI/CD, or DevOps platforms.
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Background in industrial automation, OT/IT, manufacturing software, IoT, or developer tooling.
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Interest in manufacturing and hardware innovation.
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Competitive base salary commensurate with experience and location.
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Meaningful equity in an early-stage, venture-backed company.
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Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
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Unlimited PTO and company holidays.
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401(k) plan.
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Commuter benefits and in-office lunches at our NYC HQ.
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Hybrid work environment with relocation assistance available for qualifying candidates.
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A high-trust, high-ownership culture where senior engineers are expected to lead technically, ship, and grow the people around them.
Copia is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse team and an inclusive culture, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $172,000 - $226,000