Instrumental Inc.

DevOps/Integrations Engineer

Instrumental Inc.  •  Shenzhen, CN (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Instrumental was founded in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, by two Stanford University and MIT alumni, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky (CEO) and Samuel Weiss (CTO). Both founders worked as product design engineers at Apple, designing iPods and the first Apple Watch, experiencing the significant inefficiencies of electronics manufacturing. This motivated Anna and Sam to found Instrumental, accumulating world-class expertise in hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver the world’s first Manufacturing Optimization Platform.
Instrumental technology is used by the world’s most admired AI infrastructure and electronics brands, such as Meta, NVIDIA, F5, and Cisco, to significantly reduce the $12T caused by downtime and mistakes every year in manufacturing. Our technology leverages data coming off the manufacturing floor and our proprietary AI to automate failure identification and resolution, improving yield, quality, and time to market.
As a DevOps/Integration Engineer in our Shenzhen office, you will be part of the DevOps/SRE China team to ensure our SaaS platform (on AWS) operates reliably and efficiently, and also be responsible for integrations between our platform and customers’ factory systems in APAC by working closely with Instrumental’s customer facing teams (TPM, CSM/CSE, Solution Architects) and factory IT/Engineering teams.
This role is in-person in our Shenzhen office, with occasional travel in Asia for mission-critical deployments.

How Our Solution Works (Context):


Deployment Our solution consists of two key pieces:
  • The cloud - All the data and intelligence is on a SaaS platform built on AWS. Data processing, analytics, and machine learning are performed on the cloud.
  • The edge (stations) - Stations built by Instrumental with hardware fixtures and software are installed on the customers’ factory floor. Stations are connected to Instrumental’s cloud platform. Stations inspect units as they move along the assembly line using AI/ML models trained on the cloud to detect and alert for defects in real time. 

Integration Our solution integrates with customers’ factory management software (MES) and other software to ensure we are a critical part of the factory workflow:
  • Data input: Metadata about the units and parts are pulled from an MES into stations to aid in real-time inspection and then uploaded to the cloud for tracking and processing. Other manufacturing data (inventory, test, etc) are uploaded to the cloud by customers and fed into our processing pipeline.
  • Data output: Our stations update the MES with inspection outputs in real time to enable MES interventions and actions.

Our stations are the point of contact between Instrumental's cloud and customers’ factory operations.


Responsibilities:


DevOps/SRE:
  • Along with fellow DevOps/SRE engineers in US and China you’ll own the performance, scalability, and reliability of Instrumental’s production SaaS platform.
  • Design, build, and evolve our cloud infrastructure with a strong bias for automation.
  • Improve observability, alerting, and incident response to enable fast detection and resolution.
  • Make tradeoffs quickly and pragmatically to keep systems running while the company scales.
  • Partner closely with application engineers, ML engineers, and product teams to raise the reliability bar across the org.

Integration:
  • MES integration - Design, implement, and maintain integrations for customer factories’ MES systems with interactions include routing validation, part-lookup queries, and inspection result uploads.
  • Factory data ingestion - Parse, validate, and transform customer factory data (JSON, CSV, XML, logs) for ingestion into AWS S3 and Instrumental’s API.
  • Customer-facing technical collaboration - Support TPMs during customer pilots, bring-ups, and integration validation cycles. Serve as a technical counterpart for customer MES, IT, and engineering teams.

This role is within the China DevOps/SRE team. When there is a seasonal integration project this person would commit 100% to the integration project till completion.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of DevOps or SRE experience deploying and operating commercial SaaS platforms on public cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred.
  • Expert knowledge with Linux, shell, containerization, IaC (terraform preferred), monitoring, logging, and APM tools.
  • Experience with AI tools/processes into development and operation workflows.
  • Proficiency in Python programming language.
  • Experience with system integration using REST APIs. Understanding authentication flow, control flow and data flow.
  • Professional working proficiencies in both Mandarin and English. With English, we prioritize reading/writing ability far more than conversational skills!
  • Able to collaborate across time zones with the US teams.
Instrumental Inc.

About Instrumental Inc.

Instrumental was founded by ex-Apple product design engineers Anna-Katrina Shedletsky and Samuel Weiss with a mission to eliminate $8T in electronic manufacturing waste.

We have built the leading Manufacturing AI and Data Platform for brands and manufacturers developing and producing consumer and mission-critical electronics. The platform optimizes assembly, operations, and quality control processes to accelerate time-to-market, improve yields, eliminate rework, and save engineering time.

We support the global engineering and operations of companies like Axon, Bose, Cisco, Meta, SolarEdge, and ChargePoint as they eliminate waste and deliver higher-quality products faster than ever before.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
instrumental.com
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