Top Automation Engineer Jobs

Principal Front End Developer responsible for architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining Angular and Node.js web applications and APIs. Leads complex technical initiatives, creates system specifications, supports DevOps and continuous delivery, resolves technical roadblocks, and participates in production support. The role provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, coordinates delivery across teams, contributes to roadmaps, and helps improve product development processes in an autonomous Scrum environment.

Leads industrial automation and controls projects from design through commissioning and startup. Develops PLC, DCS, and HMI applications; creates specifications and test plans; troubleshoots control architectures and industrial networks; leads FAT and site testing; collaborates with clients and engineering teams; prepares scopes and proposals; and mentors engineers. The role is hybrid in Indianapolis with approximately 15–25% travel and occasional industrial fieldwork.

Supports deployment, integration, commissioning, troubleshooting, and optimization of warehouse automation and material-handling systems. Integrates WMS, WCS, and WES platforms; analyzes root causes; monitors throughput, uptime, and accuracy KPIs; coordinates maintenance; develops SOPs and training materials; and collaborates with operations, IT, maintenance, and vendors. The role requires substantial warehouse-floor presence during installation, testing, and operational readiness activities.

Leads automated testing for an enterprise cloud platform, developing reusable test scripts, data-seeding utilities, test plans, performance and load tests, and CI/CD quality checks. Coordinates testing across teams and environments, validates releases and defect fixes, reports test effectiveness, and supports the full solution lifecycle. The role also requires system-level testing, AWS-hosted Databricks experience, accessibility testing for Section 508 compliance, and leadership of automation initiatives.

Designs and implements process automation solutions within the NASIC Business Architecture environment. Responsibilities include identifying automation opportunities, developing workflows and scripts, integrating systems, testing solutions, documenting procedures, monitoring performance, and recommending improvements. The role collaborates with architects, analysts, and IT service managers in mission-critical environments. It requires U.S. citizenship, TS/SCI clearance, Lean Six Sigma certification, and either a bachelor’s degree with three years of experience or a master’s degree with ten years of experience.

Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks for robotic and autonomous systems. Responsibilities include system integration testing, HIL and SIL environments, requirements traceability, test planning, defect tracking, validation strategy development, and functional, performance, and reliability testing. The role integrates hardware, software, controls, firmware, and networking components, analyzes failures, supports corrective actions, and improves testing through automation and continuous integration.

Designs, develops, commissions, and optimizes automation and controls systems for high-volume PCB manufacturing. Responsibilities include PLC programming, HMI and SCADA/MES integration, robotic and material-handling safety systems, electrical system design, equipment commissioning, and production handoff. The engineer will create compliant, maintainable control systems, troubleshoot industrial equipment, manage project schedules and budgets, and support critical manufacturing milestones.

Designs, develops, commissions, and optimizes automation and controls systems for high-volume PCB manufacturing. Responsibilities include PLC programming, HMI and SCADA integration, electrical system design, robotics and material-handling safety compliance, MES integration, equipment commissioning, and production handoff. The engineer also creates schedules and budgets, troubleshoots industrial electrical systems, and develops reliable, maintainable automation solutions for manufacturing equipment.

Designs, deploys, and maintains Azure Kubernetes Service environments and enterprise GitLab CI/CD automation. Builds Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM. Supports containerization, observability, secrets management, security scanning, troubleshooting, and Zero Trust compliance. Collaborates with application teams to improve deployment reliability, scalability, and operational resilience across enterprise ICAM mission systems.

Lead automation projects from concept through commissioning across manufacturing sites. Improve safety, reliability, productivity, and efficiency through automation and AI opportunities. Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communication; conduct feasibility studies, troubleshoot complex issues, support implementation, and train plant teams.

Designs, builds, commissions, and maintains automation, controls, data acquisition, and electrical systems supporting Starship launch infrastructure. Responsibilities include developing control hardware and software, maintaining low-voltage systems, analyzing system health data, troubleshooting instrumentation and avionics, supporting technicians, improving electrical processes, and assisting with experiments. The role requires on-site physical work in hazardous and variable environmental conditions, Air Force background-check eligibility, and travel of up to 25%.

Supports semiconductor equipment automation by configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting host communications. Develops Python automation, monitoring, and data-collection scripts; collaborates with network engineers; uses AI-assisted coding tools; documents issues and projects; and helps train new employees. The role requires cleanroom work, physical equipment interaction, strong troubleshooting skills, and familiarity with multiple programming languages, operating systems, databases, and semiconductor communication protocols.

Own Cerby’s AI agents for API catalog generation, browser workflow creation, and self-healing automation. Take existing systems into production using durable workflows, observability, evaluation benchmarks, cost controls, and security protections. Responsibilities include detecting and repairing automation drift, managing credential isolation and prompt-injection risks, defining threat models, partnering with engineering teams, writing design documentation, mentoring contributors, and providing on-call ownership after launch.

Designs, programs, implements, tests, and troubleshoots PLC-controlled and robotic manufacturing systems. Supports capital projects, equipment installations, modernization, maintenance, root-cause investigations, and continuous process improvements. Provides frontline technical support in a 24/7 manufacturing environment, collaborates with vendors and maintenance teams, updates engineering documentation, and participates in safety initiatives. Periodic on-call, weekend, holiday, and extended-hours coverage is required.

Independently validates data pipelines, schemas, calculations, datasets, dashboards, and reports. Develops SQL reconciliation tests, automated regression checks, access tests, data-quality controls, freshness and performance tests, and test evidence. Tracks defects, verifies corrections, supports user acceptance testing, integrates validation into delivery pipelines, and reports quality risks and release readiness to technical and government stakeholders.

Designs, programs, integrates, commissions, and supports factory automation systems including PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, CNC equipment, and robotics. The role troubleshoots and optimizes manufacturing systems, evaluates new automation technologies, supports vendor selection and capital projects, ensures safety and performance compliance, trains operations and maintenance teams, and contributes to production ramp-up and continuous improvement.

Designs, develops, deploys, and operates intelligent automation solutions using AI/ML, open-source LLMs, and MCP integrations. Builds document-processing and data-cleansing bots, agentic workflows, and reusable automation components. Owns MLOps pipelines, model retraining, governance, token optimization, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Partners with stakeholders to identify automation opportunities, ensures security and compliance, and evaluates emerging models and frameworks.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports full-stack intelligent applications integrating AI/ML models with business workflows. Builds reusable document processing, data extraction, classification, and data cleansing solutions; develops MCP servers and tools; manages model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and optimization. Troubleshoots production issues, performs root cause analysis, maintains operational documentation, and collaborates with business, data, infrastructure, security, and platform teams.

Automates security compliance, testing, and continuous monitoring for an IL5 multi-cloud environment. Responsibilities include STIG/SCAP scanning, Tricentis regression testing, CI/CD security gates, IaC validation, SIEM/SOAR automation, AWS compliance controls, eMASS evidence uploads, and RMF continuous monitoring. The role requires Secret clearance, DoD 8140 certification alignment, and at least four years of security automation, compliance testing, or DevSecOps experience.

Supports automated regression testing for web, API, and backend applications. The intern creates reusable test scripts with Thunder Client, translates requirements into test scenarios, executes test cases, documents defects, and collaborates with quality engineers and developers to validate features before release.

Automates provisioning, hardening, deployment, compliance, and sustainment of Air Force applications in AWS GovCloud. Builds Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps pipelines, automates STIG compliance, configures AWS security controls, supports Kubernetes, implements encryption and Zero Trust controls, monitors cloud environments, troubleshoots issues, and maintains documentation and configuration baselines.

Assists with designing, configuring, validating, installing, commissioning, and operating automation and protection systems. Trains customers, supports project execution within scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety requirements, and assists with proposals for equipment and services. Requires electrical engineering knowledge focused on power system protection, automation, communications, industrial controls, PLCs, protocols, Ethernet, and SCADA. Travel of at least 25% is required.

Designs, integrates, validates, and supports warehouse automation systems connecting RMS, WES, WCS/PLC, and WMS platforms. Leads computerized system validation, change control, compliance, monitoring, lifecycle management, vendor relationships, performance analysis, and roadmap planning. Develops automation layouts, capacity models, procedures, training materials, and recommendations while coordinating with IT, quality, operations, customers, and vendors in regulated healthcare logistics environments.

Designs, implements, and maintains industrial automation and process control systems at a highly automated steel manufacturing plant. Responsibilities include PLC and HMI improvements, control-system architecture, production and equipment optimization, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, systems integration, technical specifications, and project management. Supports steelmaking and rolling-mill operations while providing maintenance assistance and emergency on-call support.

Designs and operates enterprise cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private clouds. Builds cloud-native platform services, APIs, GitOps systems, Terraform provisioning, governance frameworks, workflow orchestration, observability solutions, and AI-powered developer experiences. Leads architecture and modernization initiatives, establishes engineering standards, mentors engineers, and partners with security, SRE, architecture, and software teams to improve cloud adoption, reliability, governance, security, and developer productivity.