Instrumental
Backend Engineer
- Location
- Palo Alto, Santa Clara County
- Employment
- Full Time
Job summary
Instrumental builds the manufacturing acceleration platform behind the world's most complex electronics. We capture digital exhaust and engineering context from assembly lines — images, test logs, BOM data, performance, repair cycles — and our AI engines identify insights that are difficult or impossible for human engineers to find. We accelerate the companies building the AI era by improving manufacturing yield, throughput, and ramp. NVIDIA, Meta, L3Harris, and their manufacturing partners rel…
General interview preparation
General preparation guidance from MiPrep; these interview stages are not confirmed for this job.
- Recruiter phone screen - typically 20-40 min
- Technical screen - 1 coding problem or take-home; format varies by company
- Onsite / virtual loop - typically 4-6 rounds over 2-3 weeks; exact split of coding, systems design, and behavioral varies by role and location