Software Engineer, Applied AI

Reframe Systems•Boston, MA

1d•$160,000 - $210,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Reframe Systems is a Physical AI and robotics company focused on making high-performance housing attainable and abundant. They utilize a vertically integrated delivery model and automated microfactories to produce climate-resilient homes and buildings with increased speed and predictability. Their volumetric modular buildings are manufactured in their Andover, MA microfactory, with plans for expansion across North America. The company aims to create a system that balances repeatability with site-responsive design, allowing for adaptable homes. Their team comprises professionals from architecture, robotics, design engineering, software, factory operations, and field delivery, all working together to transform housing delivery. Reframe Systems is dedicated to reimagining the future of housing through a smarter, more sustainable system that enhances people's lives.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field is preferred; equivalent experience is welcome
5+ years building production software, with Python as a primary language
Experience shipping cloud-native software (containers, managed services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD)
Strong interest in agentic systems, shown through work or side projects, e.g., MCP servers, RAG pipelines, LangGraph or similar frameworks, tool-calling agents, LLM evals. Production experience is a significant plus
Comfort with the math and algorithms behind your code (geometry, linear algebra, graphs or optimization)
A generalist's range: comfortable moving between backend, data, infrastructure and some frontend as the problem requires
Experience setting technical direction for a system or team
Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the bar on engineering practices.
Ability to navigate ambiguity. You work effectively under deadlines and shifting priorities while maintaining quality and accountability
Clear written and verbal communication, and a hands-on, "no fences" approach to collaboration
Able to work on-site in Billerica, MA at least 2 days a week
Candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to manufacturing, robotics, hardware or other systems where software meets the physical world is a plus.
No CAD, BIM or architecture experience required

Responsibilities

Help architect and build the core of our design automation platform: turn a floor plan into manufacturing-ready building design.
Turn our building system’s design decisions into a library of programmatic checks. Each one validates a model against hard dimensional, code and manufacturing constraints, and explains a failure by pointing to the rule behind it.
Build agentic workflows: tool-using agents, MCP servers, and retrieval over our design and product data
Develop evals and guardrails that check model outputs against hard physical, code and manufacturing constraints
Write deterministic, well-tested code that generates geometry, parts lists and manufacturing data from a design
Help build the visualization layer so designers, customers and the factory can see and verify a design
Deploy and operate what you build in the cloud: containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability
Work closely with Architecture, Design Engineering, DFMA (design for manufacturing and assembly) and Factory Operations. Learn how buildings are designed and built, including on the factory floor.
Improve our engineering practices, tooling and developer experience as the team grows