Foundry Robotics
Network Engineer, Autonomous Factory
$150K–$250K
Emeryville, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; must include at least one greenfield or major build-out of a campus, data center, or industrial facility.
About the job
Design, build, secure, and operate the network for a 130,000 sq. ft. autonomous manufacturing facility, supporting factory systems and robotic work cells as the facility scales.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver the factory’s physical and logical network, including topology, IP plan, segmentation, redundancy, and capacity.
- Build and operate network infrastructure for compute racks, robotic work cells, WAN/VPN connectivity, core services, monitoring, and remote fleet operations.
- Own network security boundaries and supporting evidence for ITAR and CMMC 2.0 Level 2 compliance.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in network engineering, including at least one greenfield or major campus, data center, or industrial facility build-out.
- Deep routing and switching knowledge, including OSPF or BGP, VLANs and VXLAN, spanning tree, LACP, QoS, and multicast.
- Physical-layer competence in fiber and copper plant design, cabling, rack and pathway planning, and coordination with electrical and facilities trades.
- Experience with firewalls, VPNs (IPsec, WireGuard), zone-based segmentation, data center networking, Linux troubleshooting, and network automation/documentation.
Nice to have
- Industrial or OT networking, ROS 2 / DDS, WireGuard overlays, AWS networking, video/camera networks, or precision time synchronization.
- Prior work under ITAR, CMMC, or NIST SP 800-171, ideally producing assessment evidence.
Pay
$150,000—$250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
OSPF, BGP, VLANs, VXLAN, IPsec, WireGuard, Linux, AWS
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