API and Data Infrastructure Engineer (Manufacturing Systems)
Location: Grandview Heights, OH
Let’s get right to it
- The mission: Build the APIs, services, and data pipelines that connect machines and sensors to ForgeNest’s Universal Operating Systemand the operator/engineer interfaces that depend on them.
- Why it matters: As we scale, reliability, security, and performance are nonnegotiable. Your services will power realtime insight and control for live manufacturing.
- Who you’ll work with: Software engineers, robotics and controls engineers, manufacturing teams, and company leadership.
What you’ll do
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs for our manufacturing platform.
- Define data models; operate SQL/NoSQL databases; run pipelines for machine, production, and operational data.
- Integrate with controllers, sensors, thirdparty tools, and our Universal Operating System.
- Deliver secure, scalable REST and eventdriven endpoints for internal and frontend consumers.
- Power dashboards and visualizations that present realtime equipment status and production performance.
- Contribute to frontend components in JavaScript/TypeScript with React (or similar) as needed to ship features.
- Set service design patterns, architecture principles, and coding standards for longterm scale.
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance in development and live manufacturing environments.
- Prototype fast based on feedback from operators, customers, and engineering teams.
Do you identify with the following?
- Backendminded, comfortable owning systems endtoendincluding the UI touchpoints when necessary.
- Energized by turning physical manufacturing signals into clean services and trustworthy data.
- Clear communicator across software, manufacturing, robotics, controls, and leadership.
- Motivated by building robust infrastructure that runs in the real world.
Skills and experience
- Professional experience with backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
- Proficiency in one or more: Node.js, Python, Go, Java.
- Database design and operations (SQL and/or NoSQL) with practical data modeling.
- RESTful and/or eventdriven API development and integration.
- Frontend fluency: JavaScript/TypeScript with a framework like React sufficient to modify/build components.
- Understanding of application architecture, service design, and state/data management.
- Experience with realtime/datarich systems (dashboards, telemetry, operational apps).
- Strong debugging and problemsolving skills across the stack.
- Teambased development experience.
Extras we value
- Manufacturing software, industrial automation, robotics, machine interface, or realtime systems exposure.
- Experience with message queues, streaming data, or timeseries databases.
- Interest in AIenabled systems for smarter manufacturing.
What success looks like
- Quick ramp on ForgeNest’s architecture and user workflows.
- Ownership of critical services that raise reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Clear, scalable architecture and development standards in place.
- APIs that make building resilient interfaces straightforwardfor our frontend teams and for you.
- Recognized as a trusted technical voice as the platform and org grow.
About ForgeNest
We’re a venturebacked startup modernizing forging with an AIdriven, softwarefirst platform. By combining commercially available hardware, proprietary software, AI toolpath generation, and our Universal Operating System, we’re transforming how forged metal parts are designed and manufactured for defense, aerospace, energy, maritime, and industrial sectors.
Join a small, highimpact team where your code immediately influences advanced manufacturing, automation, and industrial technology.
