Senior Software Engineer: AI

Copia Automation•New York City, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Copia, you will solve challenging, unique, and meaningful problems alongside passionate coworkers while changing the way everything gets built. You will bring experience across Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure Engineering. You will take ownership of technical projects, provide thought leadership, and be comfortable making architectural decisions, guiding other engineers, and setting the technical direction of the product. Copia Automation provides best-in-class disaster and recovery technology for industrial automation, bringing modern developer tools to the OT space through a novel Git-based source control for automation professionals. We are a well-funded startup with a growing list of happy customers. The engineering team solves problems through collaboration, experimentation, and ownership, encouraging pragmatic solutions and valuing both short-term needs and long-term goals.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production software on a team using standard best practices (code review, CI/CD, testing).
A strong full-stack background, with the ability to build polished frontends and robust backend services.
Daily experience with AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot, and a good sense of their strengths and weaknesses.
Deep knowledge of at least one statically-typed language (Go, TypeScript, and C# preferred).
A history of delivering complex projects on time and the ability to explain the technical choices you made along the way.
Great instincts for prioritization and the ability to take an ambiguous problem and find a clear solution.
Comfort making architectural decisions and providing technical guidance to other engineers.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical details to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Eagerness to dig into a complex domain and learn about industrial automation topics.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a growth-stage, venture-backed startup, scaling tools from small betas to thousands or millions of users.
Experience with our stack or adjacent technologies: TypeScript / Node.js, React, Go, C#, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS.
Experience building developer tools or working on Git internals, CI/CD, or DevOps platforms.
Background in industrial automation, OT/IT, manufacturing software, IoT, or developer tooling.
Interest in manufacturing and hardware innovation.
Previous experience adding AI-powered features into a product.

Responsibilities

Ship full-stack features end to end, handling everything from the backend data models to the final user experience.
Make AI coding agents a central part of how you work to increase your velocity while maintaining high standards.
Drive the technical direction of your projects, including architectural decisions and technical specs.
Collaborate with Product and Design to scope out work, balancing quick wins with long-term stability.
Write code that is easy to scale and maintain, and help raise the quality of the codebase through thoughtful reviews and testing.
Teach the team how to better leverage AI tools by sharing what you have learned and setting best practices.
Write clear documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Guide and mentor other engineers, helping them improve their skills and ship code with confidence.
Talk directly with customers and executives to turn complex industrial challenges into clear engineering tasks.