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Our core thesis is that the computational challenges of architecting a real-world autonomous factory are isomorphic to simulating massive, open-world factory games. We need a game engine for the real world.\nDescription\nAs the AI Systems Architect, you will view our factory not as metal and wires, but as a massive, real-time strategy game. Your mission is to build the 'Factory Tick', the core deterministic simulation loop that orchestrates the entire economy of our manufacturing cells. In simulation and game engine architecture, a \"tick\" is a single iteration of the update loop (e.g., happening 60 times a second). However, a Factory Tick is a specific, massively complex version of this concept designed to solve the \"Many-Body\" logistics problem.\nYou will apply Data-Oriented Design (DOD) and Entity Component Systems (ECS) to handle millions of discrete states, resource routing, queue prioritization, and agent pathfinding. 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