Bright Machines
brightmachines.com
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Computer Vision
Industrial Robotics
Industrial Automation
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$126M
1 round on record
Latest round
$126M
Series C · Jun 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
14
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Eclipse, BMW i Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
21/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.38%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Jun 2024 | $126M | — | PRNewswire |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Eclipse 
BMW i Ventures 
Geodesic Capital 
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How Bright Machines hires
Truth index
A 91/100
Median time to fill
70 days
Ghost roles
7%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Bright Machines scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 7% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 70 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Bright Machines applies computer vision and machine learning to factory assembly and inspection, combining robotic cells with software that programs and adapts them. Its microfactories target electronics manufacturing where product changeovers are frequent, with a growing focus on automating the assembly of data centre hardware. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Bright Machines over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
45
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python29%
C#7%
C++7%
Go7%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry14%
CUDA7%
PyTorch7%
PyTorch C++7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS14%
Azure14%
GCP14%
Grafana14%
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45 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$71k
Typical range
$26k – $235k
Open positions
4
2
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | $131k | $26k – $235k |
Highest paying role
Senior Robot Perception Engineer - Visual Inspection/MLOps
$235k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
14
4 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
70 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
18% ▲
Legal
18% ▲
Robotics
9% ▼
Security
9% ▼
Administrative
9% ▼
Finance
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Burlingame
Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Florence
Sep 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Go to stack
Sep 2026
Added C# to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
3
Busiest office
Florence
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
Florence
United States
Plant / site
6 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $52k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Administrative, HR
Guadalajara
Mexico
Plant / site
6 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $26k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Hardware, Security
Cork
Ireland
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $90k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
Burlingame
United States
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $235k Avg Salary
hires for Robotics
Jobs
≈ $45k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Guadalajara
Python
Go
JavaScript
C#
Terraform
Ansible
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
CI/CD
GitOps
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Configuration Management
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≈ $38k – $87k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Guadalajara
Python
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Azure
AWS
Platform Engineering
SLI/SLO/SLA
IAM
Cybersecurity
Snyk
Checkmarx
Semgrep
ISO 27001
OWASP Top 10
SOC 2
Zero Trust
Threat Modeling
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≈ $30k – $87k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Guadalajara
SolidWorks
AutoCAD
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$190k – $235k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Burlingame
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Weights & Biases
CUDA Toolkit
MLFlow
Computer Vision
TensorRT
Kubeflow
PyTorch
Anomaly Detection
CUDA
Machine Learning
Robotics
ROS2
Perception
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Financials
Total raised
$126M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | 2024 | $126M | Details |