Top Automation Engineer Jobs

Lead regional automation efforts for 24/7 lab operations: maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize automated equipment; program industrial robots; manage PLC/HMI/SCADA integrations and vision systems; drive continuous improvement, document system revisions, and train regional teams while collaborating with the Enterprise Automation team on design, installation, and commissioning.

The Automation Engineer will design and deploy automation for advanced NDT inspection cells, ensuring safety and compliance while improving production efficiency.

The Automation Engineer will manage data integration and automation for manufacturing processes, ensuring system performance and providing user support in a healthcare environment.

Design, build, and scale AI-powered automation using LLMs, RAG, vector DBs, prompt pipelines, and agent systems. Integrate with internal tools and cloud platforms, implement orchestration, observability, security guardrails, measure impact, and partner cross-functionally to replace manual processes with reliable production-grade automation.

Lead diagnostics, maintenance, and modernization of plant automation systems (PLC/SCADA/robotics). Supervise interventions, perform root-cause analysis, implement preventive/predictive maintenance, ensure regulatory and safety compliance (GMP, 5S), mentor junior staff, and support continuous improvement and energy-efficiency projects.

Apprentice role to learn troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of material handling equipment and robotics. Perform preventative/corrective maintenance on conveyors, sortation, scanners, PLCs, HMIs, and related controls while following safety procedures and completing a 12-week training plus a two-year onsite apprenticeship.

Support site maintenance and operations by troubleshooting, programming, and maintaining material handling control systems (PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, drives, industrial networks). Lead and assist technicians, coordinate vendor installs and capital projects, monitor MHE metrics, and communicate technical issues and impacts to operations and leadership to maximize equipment reliability and performance.

Design, automate, and maintain Windows Server and workstation deployments for isolated cloud cyber ranges. Automate Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, domain joins, patching, STIG-based hardening, software installation, image pipelines, and integration with cloud identity, secrets, logging, and monitoring. Build reusable IaC components, develop PowerShell provisioning and validation scripts, troubleshoot complex identity and networking issues, and maintain documentation and runbooks to ensure secure, repeatable environment lifecycle management.

Design, implement, and own system-level test plans and automation for MANET/MIMO wireless products. Build test infrastructure, logging and analysis tools, operate lab RF equipment, collaborate with R&D and software teams, troubleshoot and qualify firmware/hardware, and support demonstrations and product hardening.

Lead design, development, deployment, and maintenance of manufacturing automation systems (PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, robotics). Manage projects, mentor junior engineers, perform feasibility and risk analyses, create engineering documentation, troubleshoot systems, ensure regulatory and safety compliance, and drive continuous improvement across sites.

Lead design, implementation, and support of automated manufacturing systems. Own automation projects from concept to production, perform mechanical/electrical design, PLC and robot programming, machine vision integration, troubleshooting, reliability improvements, FAT/SAT and commissioning, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Provide engineering support for plant process control, PLC/HMI/SCADA programming, OT networking, data acquisition/storage and reporting. Troubleshoot instrumentation and control systems, implement automation improvements, maintain network architecture, and support plant upgrades and MES/Historian integration.

Develop and deploy CNC machining automation, CAM postprocessors, and software solutions to improve manufacturing efficiency. Integrate CAD/CAM/PLM systems, implement probing/adaptive machining and AI/ML tools, support machinists and engineers on the shop floor, and lead equipment/software selection and scaling of automated machining processes.

Designs and automates the full lifecycle of OS assets and platforms: build repeatable images, implement configuration and security-compliant automation, containerize applications, develop modules, use version control, troubleshoot and maintain systems, and mentor junior staff. Requires TS/SCI clearance and DoD 8570 IAT II (Security+) eligibility.

Design and build production-grade network automation using Python, network APIs, IaC, and CI/CD to automate configuration, change management, and observability across multi-vendor enterprise networks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, perform code and design reviews, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions.

Design, build, and maintain production infrastructure-as-code using Terraform. Create reusable modules, manage state/backends and large workspaces, harden pipelines, enforce policy-as-code, standardize multi-cloud delivery, script automation, integrate CI/CD, and troubleshoot complex cloud networking, identity, and security issues.

Design, build, and maintain infrastructure-as-code with production-grade Terraform. Create reusable modules, manage state and workspaces, harden CI/CD pipelines, enforce policy-as-code, and standardize infrastructure delivery across multi-cloud environments while troubleshooting operational issues.

Design, program, upgrade, and commission PLC/DCS control systems and HMIs for a cement manufacturing plant. Troubleshoot hardware and software, integrate subsystems, interface PLCs to historian/SQL via OPC UA, review/control panel layouts, mentor junior engineers, and support project execution and documentation.

Design, implement, and maintain PLC/HMI-based control systems and industrial networks for a cement plant. Troubleshoot hardware/software, optimize processes, perform preventative maintenance, manage network/servers, keep maintenance records, support cross-department automation projects, liaise with suppliers/contractors, and cover on-call rotations. Assist on special projects and relieve technicians as needed.

Lead design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of plant automation systems (PLCs, HMIs, SCADA). Manage automation scope for capital projects, develop software and HMI graphics, maintain documentation, and drive operational efficiency and compliance.

Serve as Principal Automation Engineer providing SRE for automation services: write and maintain infrastructure and automation code (CI/CD, IaC, monitoring), lead incident escalation and root cause analysis, lead design sessions, manage and review DevOps Engineers' work, act as technical owner of production environments, and drive platform reliability, scalability, and security.

Design, build, and operate production-grade network automation solutions using Python and infrastructure-as-code. Automate configuration, change management, and observability across multi-vendor networks; implement CI/CD, source-of-truth integrations, and APIs; perform code and design reviews; mentor junior engineers and collaborate with product, engineering, and operations stakeholders.

Hands-on technical leader who designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI automation and agentic workflows. Responsibilities include rapid prototyping, RAG and document-intelligence systems, API integrations, orchestration, monitoring, reusable AI assets, and mentoring a small engineering team to deliver frequent releases and measurable business impact.

As a Software Engineer II on the Data Automation team, you will design and maintain the analytics infrastructure, collaborating with teams to ensure high system performance and reliability.

Perform manual exploratory testing and build/maintain automated test suites (Playwright/Selenium). Integrate tests into CI/CD, collaborate with product and engineering on acceptance criteria, investigate and track defects, and advocate shift-left testing and continuous quality improvements.