Software Engineer, AI Engineering Workflows
Company: focused
Location: Austin, TX
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-25
About this role
Focused Energy is building the future of clean energy through laser-driven inertial fusion. Backed by our $240M Series A — the largest fully secured Series A in the global fusion industry — we are scaling rapidly across multiple geographies.
Based in Germany and the US, we have brought together the top scientific and engineering minds using proven technologies to unlock fusion power at commercial scale. Focused Energy is working to realize game-changing scientific innovation that promises to deliver a clean, sustainable and abundant source of power globally.
## Your Role
Focused Energy is looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team and help scale software engineering productivity across the company. As we grow rapidly across multiple geographies, the adoption of AI-assisted development tools needs a coordinated, reliable approach — without it, we risk inconsistent practices, duplicated effort, and code quality issues across projects.
In this role, you will design, build, and deploy automated developer tooling, internal AI workflows, and software agents that act as productivity multipliers for our software team. Over the next 6–18 months, you'll help define how Focused Energy adopts AI-assisted and agentic coding tools responsibly, raising the bar on code quality, testing, and reliability as the engineering org scales.
## What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain AI-assisted developer productivity tools, code quality automation, and modern CI/CD infrastructure.
- Translate software development requirements into clear software designs, internal developer APIs, and repository templates.
- Lead technical design discussions and establish safe, practical standards for using AI-generated code and agentic tools across the department.
- Proactively address code quality, testing, and reliability gaps by building robust automated testing frameworks and code-review gating systems.
- Write clear runbooks, documentation, and training guides to help en...