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From digital work instructions and quality management to traceability, skills and operational excellence, we’ve helped thousands of operators perform their work better, faster and safer.\nBut we’re only getting started.\nThe next generation of manufacturing won’t be driven by software alone. It will be powered by AI that fundamentally changes how work gets done on the factory floor. We’re building a future where work instructions are generated automatically from engineering data, AI agents assist operators in real time, quality documentation is created autonomously, and repetitive administrative work simply disappears.\nWe’re not digitizing existing processes anymore.We’re redesigning manufacturing execution from the ground up.\nFounded in 2016, Azumuta has grown into one of Europe’s leading Manufacturing SaaS scale-ups, working with some of the world’s most innovative manufacturers across industries including aerospace & defense, industrial machinery, automotive, electronics and medical devices. We’re building what manufacturing will look like over the next decade. If that excites you, you’ll fit right in.\nReady to join our R&D team?\nAs a Principal Engineer at Azumuta, you operate at chief-architect altitude: you take on the largest, most ambiguous problems in our roadmap and turn them into shipped, well-structured software, largely on your own steam. You're given real workstreams and real trust: you can go heads-down on a hard problem and come back with something clean, coherent and production-ready, without needing anyone to check in on the how.\nYou spend a significant part of your time building real product capabilities across our stack (Node.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines). At the same time, you shape how the wider team builds, ships and operates software; not by mandating process from above, but by showing what good looks like through your own work and carrying people along with you.\nYou continuously ask questions like:\nHow do we build our product faster while still owning our code, architecture, and technical decisions?\n\nHow do we use AI and agentic development to increase leverage without ending up with a codebase nobody truly understands?\n\nHow do we run fast experiments and short learning cycles while still shipping reliable SaaS software?\n\nYou work closely with Product t o take in real customer problems and direction and you're comfortable being the translation layer: turning product input into clear technical scope, and clearly conveying trade-offs and progress back the other way.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nBuild: what you’ll do hands-on\nSolve complex product problems\nDesign and implement robust full-stack solutions for complex industrial workflows. Collaborate with Product to translate real-world manufacturing problems into clear, usable software - and help shape what gets built, not just how.\n\nOwn the stack end to end\nWork across backend APIs, frontend components, data flows, and integrations. Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across the platform. You don't hand off the parts you find less interesting - you see problems through from initiative to delivery.\n\nShip fast, without breaking things\nWrite clean, scalable, well-tested code. Balance speed with long-term quality and technical ownership.\n\nBuild secure, scalable SaaS systems\nContribute to a platform that is secure, resilient, and ready to scale to thousands of users across multiple markets.\n\nMeasure and improve\nUse metrics, incidents, and user feedback to continuously improve reliability, performance, and usability.\n\nGuide: how you raise the bar for the team\nLead by example\nYou don't install new practices top-down or through formal process. You raise the bar by doing the work at a high standard, visibly and consistently, and bringing others along with you.\n\nTake on large, ambiguous workstreams independently\nYou're trusted to run with a big, loosely-defined block of work - the kind that takes weeks, not days - and return with something structured and finished, without needing close direction along the way.\n\nShape agentic development responsibly\nBe a champion for AI-assisted and agentic development. Experiment, set an example through your own use of it, and help the team move faster without losing control over product knowledge or system complexity.\n\nTranslate between product and engineering\nTake in direction and input from Product, and communicate clearly in both directions - turning ambiguous problems into technical scope, and technical trade-offs into something Product can act on.\n\nStrengthen SaaS operational maturity\nBring real-world SaaS experience into everyday decisions: monitoring, alerting, incident awareness, infrastructure as code, and cost-quality trade-offs.\n\nRequirements\nYou’d Be a Great Fit If You…\nHave worked on a real SaaS product in production, and have seen incidents, outages, and operational trade-offs first-hand.\n\nCan operate with a high degree of autonomy - you don't need a project broken down for you, and you're comfortable being handed a large, ambiguous block of work and running with it.\n\nTake initiative and full ownership end to end: you spot what needs doing, pick it up yourself, and carry it all the way through rather than handing pieces off or waiting to be assigned.\n\nHave gone heads-down on a hard problem for an extended stretch and come back with clean, well-structured, finished output.\n\nInfluence how a team works through the example you set, not through formal authority or top-down process.\n\nBelieve in straight talk: you can disagree openly with a peer's approach or a product decision, focused on the topic and not the person, rather than letting friction go unsaid.\n\nCommunicate clearly and translate well between product thinking and technical execution.\n\nAre comfortable with modern CI/CD, testing culture, and code review rigor.\n\nStay hands-on and dive into code when it matters - this is not a purely advisory role.\n\nAre willing and able to learn our tech stack quickly. Mindset beats prior framework knowledge.\n\nWhat’s In It for You?\nOn top of a competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and growth:\nMeal vouchers - Enjoy daily meal perks.\nHealthcare benefits - Including Alan daily care & hospitalization insurance.\nFlexibility & balance - Flexible hours with in-office collaboration (please note, this is not a remote position!).\nTop-notch equipment - The best tools and tech to help you succeed.\nA key role in a fast-growing scale-up - Join an ambitious international team with endless learning and growth opportunities.\nOwnership & impact - Take on real responsibility and make a difference from day one.\nFun & team spirit - Regular team-building activities and a vibrant company culture.\nUnlimited snacks & drinks - Because great work deserves great fuel!\nAwesome Azumuta merch - Represent the team in style!","description_format":"text","description_chars":7132,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Industrial IoT (IIoT)","Manufacturing & Industrial Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T06:26:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.252,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":251,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/azumuta-principal-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/azumuta-principal-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T14:30:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":21958,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":697274},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=697274"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fazumuta-principal-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fazumuta-principal-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fazumuta-principal-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/azumuta-principal-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fazumuta-principal-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":855528}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"azumuta.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":855528},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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