AI & Automation Product Engineer
Formic provides full-service, robotics-as-a-service automation for U.S. manufacturers, including deployment, operation, monitoring, and maintenance of industrial robotic systems without upfront capital investment.
About Formic
Formic Technologies, Inc. is a Bolingbrook, Illinois-based industrial automation company founded in 2020. Its Full Service Automation offering deploys and operates robotic systems for manufacturing tasks such as palletizing, case packing, machine tending, pallet wrapping, and material movement. Its current platform combines Formic Core, an on-robot physical-AI execution layer, with Cortex, a fleet-level intelligence and operations layer.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You'll work directly with teams across the company to identify opportunities and build solutions, whether that's an internal application, connecting systems that don't communicate, automating an operational process, or applying AI to make existing tools more useful. You'll have the autonomy to decide what to build and how, and you'll own getting it into production and making sure it works, caring as much about adoption and reliability as development.
Requirements
- Strong track record of personally building and shipping software, internal products, automations, or technical solutions
- Solid software development skills including APIs, databases, and modern application development tools
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python or TypeScript, plus APIs, databases, and SQL
- Hands-on experience integrating systems and working with data across multiple platforms
- Practical experience using AI in software development or building AI-powered applications
- Ability to make thoughtful technical decisions without overengineering
- Strong product instincts
- Comfort working independently and owning projects end to end
- Appreciation for testing, documentation, monitoring, maintenance, and user adoption
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical colleagues
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain internal applications, AI-powered tools, automations, and integrations
- Work with employees and business leaders to understand processes, uncover inefficiencies, and determine what to build
- Design technical solutions including application architecture, APIs, databases, data pipelines, and integrations
- Experiment with LLMs, AI agents, and emerging development tools
- Connect information across business systems to improve data quality, visibility, and decision-making
- Take projects from discovery through prototyping, development, deployment, and ongoing support
- Build with security, reliability, maintainability, and scalability in mind, including testing and monitoring
- Gather feedback, measure adoption and results, and continuously improve products
- Collaborate with engineering and other technical teams on shared infrastructure or specialized expertise
- Help determine priorities, architecture, and technical direction of the Business Systems function
Benefits
- Equity in Formic (stock option program)
- Uncapped commission structure for commission-eligible roles
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 99% of employee premiums covered and 75% for dependents
- FSA and DCFSA, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, 100% employer-paid
- Employee Assistance Program
- Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401(k)
- One-time home office stipend for remote and hybrid employees
- Monthly cell phone reimbursement
- Flexible time off