Senior Software Engineer, Edge Platform
Somerville, MA at a glance
- Rent
- #4 of 51$3,040/mo+42% vs US avg
- Weather
- #15 of 51181 mild days0 hot · 100 cold
- Income tax
- #8 of 519% top rateMassachusetts
What you need
- 4+ yrs production systems software experience
- Deep Linux admin, networking, filesystems, performance
- Ship software to uncontrolled edge/embedded environments
- Bare-metal, hypervisors, VMs, containers expertise
- Strong Rust, Python, C/C++, or Go for automation
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain production edge Linux environments
- Design bare-metal infrastructure with virtualization and containers
- Deploy and operate ML models and LLMs on edge hardware
- Build industrial integration interfaces (MES, OPC UA, Modbus)
- Implement secure device access and software delivery
For a century, the answer to “what’s in the pipe right now” was a grab sample to a lab with results back hours later. We answer it every second.
Laminar is building human-centric self-driving factories: the ones made of stainless steel pipes and reactors, that make what the world eats, uses, and wears. Proprietary inline sensors read the chemistry in the pipe. Foundation models grounded in physics and chemistry reason about how close the process is to its target. Process control software acts on the answer through the plant’s automation system in real time. Laminar Insights shows what happened, why, and what it saved.
A Laminar line uses about 20% less water and 20% fewer chemicals and runs 15% faster, with quality protected. Productivity and sustainability improve together. We run across six continents at manufacturers like Coca-Cola, Unilever, and AB InBev, backed by tier-1 investors in Physical AI.
We’re a polymathic team of 50 in Somerville: hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards under one roof. Nobody here is waiting to be asked what to do. You’ll see the problem, propose the fix, and own the outcome. We believe in autonomy, ownership, and demanding excellence, and we hold each other to it. If that’s how you want to spend your time, come build the self-driving factory with us.
What You Will Do
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Linux Systems Engineering: Develop and maintain production edge Linux environments, including provisioning, networking, service management, storage, security, and performance tuning.
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Virtualization & Workload Management: Design bare-metal server infrastructure and use virtualization and containers to deploy, isolate, and manage applications.
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Edge AI Deployment: Work with data and ML teams to deploy and operate ML models and LLMs locally, accounting for compute, memory, latency, and hardware acceleration.
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Industrial Integration: Build on the interfaces that connect Laminar to customer systems, including MES integration and industrial communication protocols like Ethernet/IP, OPC UA, Profinet, Modbus, etc. Make it easy for a customer to integrate our system with what they have running.
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CI/CD: Build automated provisioning, remote updates, rollback, logging, and monitoring capabilities. Design for intermittent connectivity, power interruptions, and limited physical access.
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Security Engineering: Implement secure device access, identity management, software delivery, and communication between edge systems and cloud services.
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Cross-Team Collaboration: Turn factory requirements into platform capabilities, working closely with hardware, software, data, and deployment teams.
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Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers, review code and designs, and document architecture and engineering decisions.
About You
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4+ years of experience building production systems software, with meaningful work on Linux systems, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
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Track record of owning the design, implementation, and success of significant components within a larger system.
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Comfortable defining technical direction, taking ownership, and delivering in a fast-paced product iteration cycle.
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Deep Linux experience, covering administration, networking, filesystems, troubleshooting, and performance analysis.
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Experience shipping software into environments you don’t control: into on-prem, edge, embedded, robotics, or similar.
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Practical experience with bare-metal infrastructure, hypervisors, virtual machines, and containers.
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Strong experience in languages such as Rust, Python, C/C++, or Go, with experience building automation and system tooling.
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Familiarity with deploying ML models and LLMs on edge hardware, including inference runtimes and resource constraints.
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Experience with deployment automation, monitoring, system recovery, and secure software updates.
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Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
Learn How We Think
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Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
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How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
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A customer story: Ben & Jerry's uses H2Ok's precision automation to cut time & water usage
Why You'll Love it Here
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A front-row seat at Greentown Labs, North America's largest cleantech innovation hub, in a Somerville neighborhood ranked one of the coolest in the world
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Real recognition: 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and ABInBev, and more
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A team that celebrates together from rooftop lunches, ping pong matches, Lunch & Learns, and regular team events
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Competitive salary, equity, and a 401(k) with company match
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Health, dental, and vision coverage, plus short- and long-term disability and life insurance
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Flexible time off and 12 company-paid holidays
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A conference and learning budget to keep growing your craft
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Greentown Labs membership and a transportation benefit for your commute
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About Laminar
Laminar (Formerly H2Ok Innovations) is transforming how food and beverage factories run by using its in-line sensors and turnkey AI solution to unlock lost production time. Laminar’s patented spectral sensors continuously monitor fluid signatures to optimize Clean-In-Place (CIP), product changeovers, and prevent costly errors before they cause downtime. Our AI solution absorbs expert intuition into machine learning models and helps manufacturers instantly run faster, cleaner, and more profitably. Deployed in factories across six continents and trusted by global leaders like AB InBev, Coca-Cola, and Unilever, Laminar is redefining what it means to unlock your faster factory. Learn more about Laminar at runlaminar.com.
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