Top Automation Engineer Jobs

Supports sales of industrial automation and control products by specifying solutions, recommending inventory, identifying customer opportunities, and explaining new technology. Provides technical guidance for equipment operation and maintenance, supports customers and company personnel, and presents complex solutions to technical and non-technical audiences. Requires extensive travel and use of a personal vehicle for business purposes.

The Principal Automation Engineer will design, verify, and validate DeltaV automation systems and support GMP manufacturing operations. Responsibilities include system administration, collaboration with quality and engineering teams, and mentoring others in safety and engineering principles.

Designs and maintains Java and Playwright automated test frameworks, builds end-to-end web test scenarios, integrates testing with Jenkins CI/CD, and manages execution and reporting through Xray/Jira. The role supports system, integration, and UAT testing; participates in architecture discussions; troubleshoots issues; collaborates with cross-functional teams; mentors junior engineers; improves automation processes; and participates in production support and on-call rotation.

Develops, validates, and optimizes automated assembly processes from commissioning through production. Owns PLC, robotics, servo, vision, safety, and material-handling performance; leads equipment acceptance, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, production launches, and supplier actions. Improves throughput, uptime, cycle time, reliability, and quality while maintaining controls standards, documentation, backups, contingency plans, and training. Partners with manufacturing, maintenance, quality, IT/OT, EHS, and suppliers to ensure stable production flow.

Build and ship full-stack customer experience, fraud, and safety tooling for support, investigations, moderation, and abuse detection. Own features from development through deployment, integrate vendor APIs, and maintain reliable production systems that protect users and support teams. Work across frontend and backend using AI coding tools, translating evolving trust, safety, and compliance needs into scalable data models and workflows.

Develop and execute automated, functional, regression, integration, backend, web service, and performance tests. Create test scripts, test data, SQL or Unix automation, and test strategies. Validate results, identify defects, document reproducible issues in Jira, produce test metrics and summaries, and collaborate with developers on defect resolution. The role requires strong Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright, Java, SQL, database, and API testing experience, with hybrid on-site work in Ashburn, Virginia.

Leads site-wide manufacturing OT infrastructure and integration strategy, architecture, project delivery, lifecycle management, cybersecurity, and support in a GMP-regulated environment. Oversees industrial networks, virtualization, historians, system interfaces, and integrations across DCS, PLC, SCADA, MES, BAS, and data platforms. Provides technical leadership to engineers, suppliers, OEMs, and system integrators while managing scope, schedule, risks, compliance, validation, commissioning, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. The role is primarily onsite in Wilson, North Carolina, with international and project-related travel.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports enterprise automation, endpoint-management solutions, AI-assisted tools, and low-code applications. Responsibilities include PowerShell automation, SCCM and endpoint management, Microsoft Power Platform development, AI agent and connector creation, integrations with Microsoft 365 and APIs, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, security compliance, and operational support.

Build AI-powered applications, APIs, integrations, agentic workflows, dashboards, and marketing automations. Connect GoHighLevel with CRMs, databases, AI services, and external tools using webhooks, OAuth, and REST APIs. Rapidly prototype solutions with Replit and Lovable, troubleshoot and monitor automations, document systems, and identify opportunities to eliminate manual work. The role requires creative experimentation, strong independent problem-solving, and occasional travel to quarterly conferences and live sales events.

Lead automation and electrical engineering for steelmaking and rolling mill operations. Design, commission, and troubleshoot PLC/HMI systems, drives, and motor control equipment; develop control strategies, KPIs, and integration with business systems; drive continuous improvement, reliability, and safety; manage projects and provide technical leadership and on-call support.

Build and operate software, integrations, monitoring, and automation for Anthropic’s global AV and collaboration systems. Responsibilities include fleet health monitoring, automated room testing, ticketing, API integrations, provisioning, configuration management, release management, production service operations, and engineering practice standardization. The role partners with Security, IT, and Network teams, enables non-developer contributors, manages the tooling roadmap, and supports platform rollouts with up to four weeks of annual travel.

Designs and develops robotic, automated, electromechanical, and inspection equipment from requirements through production hardware. Responsibilities include mechanical and electrical design, CAD and documentation, tooling, pneumatics, motion systems, control cabinets, machine vision fixtures, prototyping, fabrication, wiring, debugging, system integration, safety certification, commissioning, and customer-site deployment. The role requires hands-on shop experience, systems-level thinking, and collaboration with software and controls engineers in an on-site R&D environment.

Designs and develops mechanical and electromechanical automation systems from concept through production. Responsibilities include robotic tooling, fixtures, frames, pneumatics, motion systems, control cabinets, machine vision hardware, manufacturing documentation, prototyping, wiring, debugging, safety certification, system integration, and customer-site commissioning. The role requires hands-on fabrication and shop experience, collaboration with software and controls engineers, and management of concurrent R&D projects.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for an AWS-based cloud analytics platform. Responsibilities include test planning, API, integration, regression, performance, scalability, usability, and end-to-end testing; creating test data; analyzing complex data and test results; troubleshooting defects; participating in agile ceremonies; and mentoring QA peers. Collaborates with developers, data engineers, architects, operations, and data scientists to ensure application and service quality.

Develop and maintain Python-based automated test software, validation frameworks, and STE/GSE for integrated RF, communications, electro-optical, embedded, and hardware systems. Automate commercial test equipment, execute verification and acceptance testing, troubleshoot system integrations, support root-cause analysis, and improve test reliability and throughput. Collaborate across engineering and production teams while deploying and sustaining test systems in laboratory, manufacturing, and field environments.

Develop and maintain automated functional, integration, regression, smoke, and API tests for Air Force applications and services. Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, manage versioned test artifacts, investigate failures, document defects, validate fixes, and maintain requirements traceability. Coordinate test environments, authorized data, cybersecurity controls, configuration baselines, and release evidence supporting RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO activities. Evaluate automation coverage and reliability while researching approved AI capabilities for CI/CD.

Designs, programs, integrates, troubleshoots, and maintains industrial automation systems for manufacturing assembly and packaging. Responsibilities include PLC control logic, industrial networking, HMI and SCADA development, system commissioning, root cause analysis, cybersecurity, MES/ERP integration, documentation, operator training, and preventive maintenance support. Collaborates with mechanical, electrical, IT, and production teams while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance.

Lead design and delivery of agentic AI systems and LLMOps on AWS to generate, validate, and deploy infrastructure-as-code (Terraform). Build multi-agent applications, RAG pipelines, and AIOps for cloud operations; integrate AI into CI/CD and ITSM. Set technical direction, establish guardrails/policy-as-code, curate reusable Terraform modules, and mentor engineering teams.

Design, implement, and maintain data acquisition and complex control systems for testing space-rated hardware. Develop software tools and standards, troubleshoot test assets, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support robust testing and upgrade requests at the Long Beach test site.

The Senior Controls & Automation Engineer will design and implement control systems and automation solutions to enhance manufacturing processes, improve efficiency and product quality, and ensure safety.

Designs, develops, and supports enterprise automation solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, scripting, APIs, cloud services, and secure authentication. The role integrates cloud and on-premises systems, builds reusable workflows, monitors performance, resolves issues, documents solutions, and ensures governance and compliance. The engineer collaborates with infrastructure, security, application development, and business stakeholders to improve operational efficiency and service delivery.

Own end-to-end reliability for a customer-facing GPU cloud serving workloads across 100–10,000 GPUs. Responsibilities include operating Kubernetes GPU clusters, managing multi-tenant isolation, automating bare-metal provisioning, defining SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, handling incidents and customer communications, building observability with Prometheus and Grafana, implementing infrastructure as code and GitOps, and developing automated remediation and self-service operational tooling.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for intelligent controls, industrial automation, and mechanical automation systems in a manufacturing plant. Owns troubleshooting, commissioning, design reviews, project execution, obsolescence mitigation, standards compliance, and integration of mechanical, electrical, control, networking, and digital systems. Leads automation masterplan implementation, budgets, startup activities, and technical development of engineers and technicians while ensuring electrical and machine safety.

Designs, develops, programs, integrates, and supports automated manufacturing systems. Manages broad engineering projects from analysis and planning through implementation, develops safe and efficient production processes, resolves manufacturing problems, and mentors engineers and technical personnel. Responsibilities include equipment evaluation, maintenance planning, process training, project budgeting, and continuous improvement in an onsite manufacturing environment.

Design, build, and optimize automated manufacturing systems involving robotics, PLCs, conveyors, fixturing, effectors, and vision systems. Identify automation opportunities to improve throughput, quality, and cost; troubleshoot equipment failures; perform root cause analysis; implement corrective actions; and connect factory-floor data and control systems to Helicon’s Argos supply-chain platform.