Copia Automation

Who you are

We are seeking a Software Engineer to support Copia's fast-growing AI vertical. You're passionate about solving problems through collaboration, experimentation, and ownership, and are happy to pair on tough issues and test your assumptions.

You have experience building AI tooling, not just using AI tooling. Bonus points for experience with controls engineering/PLCs and hardware.

In this role, you will be building AI-based tooling for industrial automation engineers. You will use cutting-edge AI tooling to enable engineering workflows for Copia's user base. Your product taste will help set the direction for integrating AI tooling into existing Copia Source Control & Backup products.

The industrial automation space has lots of information most software engineers are not familiar with. In your day-to-day, you will learn about a wide variety of industrial automation topics.

You’ll join a team that encourages ownership and values pragmatic solutions: weighing short-term needs and long-term goals.

You’re interested in Copia’s mission (rebuilding manufacturing), you enjoy interacting with customers, and driving impact in a foundational industry. We’re looking for a strong contributor to the overall trajectory of the company.

Finally, you're optimistic. At Copia, we celebrate successes, support each other through unexpected challenges, and approach problems with a positive attitude.

Who we are

Copia Automation brings modern developer tools to industrial automation. We have two core offerings:

1. Git-based version control for PLC & HMI projects with advanced PLC file rendering

2. Automated PLC backups from the factory floor that integrate into Git history.

We are a well-funded startup, with a growing list of happy customers from 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?

Today, manufacturing is powered by an ecosystem of computerized systems and robotics known as industrial automation. Special-purpose industrial computers called PLCs are used to automate factories, warehouses, and even amusement parks. This ecosystem is programmed with a unique graphical language that doesn’t work with typical developer tools such as GitLab or GitHub. Instead, automation professionals have to use physical storage devices, incompatible tools, and incomplete solutions. When minutes of downtime can represent tens of thousands of dollars, better development tools are urgently needed.

Copia Automation is rebuilding a 50-year old, $170-billion industrial market from the ground up by rethinking the command and control layer, and developer tools that power process automation in almost every industrial vertical. Backed by some of the world’s most respected investors, we’re starting by creating a complete developer toolchain for industrial automation that will change how factories are built.

See more at copia.io.

What you'll do:

• Read up on new AWS BedRock offerings to integrate into Copia
• Make user interface changes to improve the user experience of the Copia Copilot
• Work with the product team to scope and phase additional GenAI integrations into Copia's existing Source Control and DeviceLink products
• Develop high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions
• Write clear documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
• Review and provide feedback on code written by other team members
• Conduct code reviews, testing, and debugging
• Provide technical guidance to other team members

What you'll need:

• 1+ years experience building AI-enabled tooling. This means you haven't just used ChatGPT, you've written an application using e.g. the OpenAI API and set up RAG.
• 2-5 years experience as a software engineer on a team using standard best practices (code review, CI/CD, etc.)
• Proficiency with a statically-typed language (we mostly use Go, TypeScript, & C#, but it doesn't have to be one of those)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. You must be able to explain what you're working on to someone without a deep understanding of it.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new information and build reliable software based on that information
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects
• Ability to write clear documentation and technical specifications
• Strong problem-solving skills with pragmatic software decision making

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Go, Typescript, and/or C#
• Experience with Git internals, CI/CD, or DevOps platforms
• Experience at growth-stage, venture-backed start-up, scaling up tools from small betas to thousands or millions of users
• Bonus: ML model training and/or finetuning. You haven't just used AI tooling, you've e.g. won a Kaggle competition or created a popular HuggingFace fine-tune
• Bonus: Experience building developer tools
• Bonus: Experience/Interest in industrial automation and Programmable Logic Controllers

Location

We are hiring engineers to join our headquarters in New York City. You will be expected to come into the office on a hybrid basis. Relocation assistance to New York City may be provided for those moving to join Copia HQ.

Come join us!

Copia is growing extraordinarily fast. Join a best-in-class start-up with huge amounts of upside and impact. Our headquarters is in New York, but our team is remote throughout North America.

At Copia, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our customers, and our community. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you’re good at what you do, come as you are. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Copia is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.