Network Engineer, Autonomous Factory

The role

You will design and build the network for a 130,000 sq. ft. autonomous manufacturing facility. You will work across the full network stack including physical infrastructure, switching, routing, server and GPU rack fabric, and security boundaries.

What you will do

• Produce the network design for the factory including physical plant, logical topology, IP plan, segmentation model, redundancy, and capacity.
• Design and stand up the server and GPU rack fabric.
• Wire and segment robotic work cells.
• Own the WAN and VPN edge.
• Run the overlay network and its interaction with the underlay.
• Operate core services including DHCP, DNS, NTP or PTP, and firewall policy.
• Instrument everything using switch, firewall, and flow telemetry.
• Carry the network portion of ITAR and CMMC 2.0 Level 2.
• Enable remote fleet operations.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in network engineering, including at least one greenfield or major build-out of a campus, data center, or industrial facility.
• Deep routing and switching: OSPF or BGP, VLANs and VXLAN, spanning tree, LACP, QoS, multicast.
• Physical layer competence: fiber and copper plant design, cabling standards, rack and pathway planning, working with electrical and facilities trades.
• Firewalls, VPN (IPsec, WireGuard), and zone-based segmentation.
• Data center networking for compute racks: 25/100G top-of-rack, storage and GPU traffic patterns, out-of-band management.
• Comfortable on Linux with tcpdump, iproute2, and nftables.
• Able to document and automate: network as code, version-controlled configs, and monitoring.

Nice to have

• Industrial or OT networking: PLCs, EtherCAT or PROFINET, robot controllers, safety systems, IEC 62443 concepts.
• ROS 2 / DDS on real networks, including multicast discovery.
• WireGuard-based overlays at scale and the underlay/overlay interaction problems.
• AWS networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN or Direct Connect, private DNS.
• Video and camera networks with high camera counts and bandwidth planning.
• PTP or other precision time sync for robotics or measurement.
• Prior work under ITAR, CMMC, or NIST SP 800-171, ideally producing assessment evidence.

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Generous PTO

About the company

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware.