Lead Software Engineer

About Procense:

Procense.ai is building the next leader in industrial automation for process manufacturers.

From food and pharmaceuticals to chemicals and personal care, process manufacturers produce the essential goods that power our daily lives. Yet many of these non-discrete operations still rely on outdated, paper based and legacy systems for managing production and quality operations.

Procense is changing that. By combining AI-powered software with industrial-grade IoT, Procense helps process manufacturers modernize how they collect, analyze, and act on in-process production and quality data. The result: higher yields, fewer production issues, improved compliance, and a system of record for their most critical data.

With a vertically integrated platform—hardware and software included—Procense provides real-time visibility, automation, and predictive insights across the plant floor. This full-stack approach not only accelerates implementation but also creates a strong competitive moat.

Our mission is clear: to become an end to end system with ERP and MES solutions—driving the next era of growth, efficiency, and innovation in one of the world’s most critical and underserved sectors.

We’re gaining traction fast:

• Closed a $1.5M seed round led by Kevin Mahaffey (Business Insider’s #1 Seed Investor of 2025) and HighSage Ventures
• Post product market fit
• Marquee enterprise customers include Tyson Foods, J&J, Dr. Squatch, and others
• $X00K bootstrapped ARR with a fast growing pipeline of 6-figure deals

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, Tailwind, TypeScript
• Backend: Next.js, Python
• Infra: AWS IOT Core, Supabase, Clickhouse, Vercel, Metabase
• IoT: Off the shelf/custom industrial sensors and gateways (Nodered)
• AI/ML: LLMs, agents, and data-driven automation tools

The Opportunity

• Build and scale our core web applications from the ground up
• Design and implement high-quality, intuitive UI/UX
• Help shape product and technical architecture decisions
• Architecting our core AI agent system from the ground up

The Technical Challenges You'll Solve

• Architect cloud-native infrastructure ready for enterprise scale
• Design and implement applications to operationalize critical manufacturing production data coming from IOT devices, compliance documentation, equipment, and various manufacturing systems
• Design and implement autonomous AI agents that can understand and execute complex workflows
• Build reliable orchestration systems for LLM-powered applications

About You:

• Team player: You’re not just an amazing individual contributor but you are ready to help your team, when they need you. You don’t let your ego get in the way of progress and think about the business, your peers, and customers first.
• Resilient - Business and startups are a marathon. Priorities change, deals fall through, pressure builds, and we’re required to do more with less in these early days. You’re creative when it comes to getting things done, no matter what it takes, all while ensuring quality and maintaining a long-term perspective.
• Mission driven: You are mission driven, with an ongoing desire to do great things. You look at setbacks, challenges, and pressures opportunities to learn and rise.
• Always learning: You love staying up to date on the latest models, development styles, and all things technology.

Core Requirements

• 5+ years of full-stack experience
• Has startup or side project experience— understands speed, constraints, and builds well under pressure
• Moves fast without breaking things, but loves building beautiful polished applications too
• Has real product intuition — not just code for code’s sake
• Enjoys interfacing with customers, understanding their problems and translating them into tangible, high value products
• Is excited to grow with the company into a leadership role as we scale
• Leverage AI tools to help with development, troubleshooting, testing, and deployment

Why Join:

• Shape the design, development and vision behind an AI-native ERP/MES platform for a legacy industry
• Solve complex problems at the intersection of manufacturing the products we use everyday and AI
• Small, senior team with lots of ownership and fast decision cycles
• Fast track to senior leadership—join early and grow into a technical leader as we expand our engineering team and product offerings
• Backed by top-tier investors and growing quickly

Join us in building the future system of record, with AI at its core, for process manufacturers. If you're excited about combining AI with real-world business problems that power global manufacturing, we'd love to talk.

Compensation:

The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.