Nix Engineer

Somana is a generative robotics company. We founded the company because the incredible advances in the modeling layer have no way to access a fragmented physical world. We're building the connective tissue that brings physical AI into the industrial world. Somana is a hardware, software, and services platform powering rapid improvements in capacity, throughput, yield, and quality. Our compute platform talks to hundreds of peripherals, living on factory floors and has capabilities that compound after every run - which means the mechanical systems that house, cool, protect, and connect them are as critical as the silicon itself. Why We Use Nix Central to our proposition: architecting the right abstractions and modular system components. The world of edge compute comes with unique challenges: reliability, observability, controllability, etc. These challenges compound if mis-modeled or mishandled, doubly so with the velocity and heterogeneity of the industrial deployments we target. Remotely reasoning over stateful nonsense, imperatively-managed hosts, or otherwise having facts about a fleet that aren’t derivable from a git SHA, are all nonstarters. Nix alone provides us with the declarative, immutable base atop which we can author system components, reason about them in isolation, and reuse them in novel deployment environments. As a Nix Engineer at Somana, you will build out the tools we use to target downstream software environments, perform NixOS bringup on our state-of-the-art hardware, and develop our build, deployment, and CI/CD tools that deliver reliable systems to our customers. Who You Are Senior software engineer fluent in Nix Bonus: Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript Deep Nix, NixOS, Linux, and systemd knowledge Bonus: experience with non-”NixOS” Nix-built OSes Bonus: CUDA, L4T Embedded and/or edge experience Bonus: industrial environments, factory floors Bonus: passionate about the commercial industrial base! Interested in inventing novel ways of composing Linux systems + our core developer platform: the abstractions, plumbing, and deployment layer! If you've already built a compute or electro-mechanical product line from scratch, shipped it at volume, and you're looking for the kind of ownership and impact that only exists at a dynamic early stage company, we'd love to talk! LOCATION & COMPENSATION: SoHo, New York City Competitive salary + meaningful equity - this is a foundational role on a small team Catered lunch, snacks, panoramic views, and pet-friendly office Health, Dental, Vision benefits + 401k