Manager, Industrial Controls Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $149k - $204.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🖥 Software Engineer

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Symbotic

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Logistics • Consulting • Food & Beverage

Symbotic is an industrial automation company that provides an end-to-end, AI-powered warehouse automation platform combining autonomous mobile robots, advanced vision and sensing, and orchestration software to modernize supply chains. Its system integrates hardware and intelligent software to increase throughput, accuracy, and storage density for retail, grocery, CPG, and wholesale customers, solving labor constraints and operational inefficiencies in distribution and fulfillment operations.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of Controls Engineers developing, testing, and maintaining PLC-based control software for industrial automation systems • Provide day-to-day guidance and technical direction to 6–8 PLC R&D Controls Engineers • Own delivery of PLC software milestones across multiple projects and programs • Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, goal setting, and career development planning • Communicate status, risks, and technical tradeoffs to stakeholders • Lead prototyping, testing, validation, and documentation of control system concepts and electrical designs • Ensure high-quality, reliable, and maintainable PLC software design • Promote best practices in modular programming, version control, diagnostics, and documentation • Drive adoption of AI assisted programming, simulation, Digital Twins, and automated testing • Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex or high-impact issues

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation Engineering, or related field • Minimum of 7 years in industrial automation, controls engineering, and people management responsibility • Hands-on expertise with Rockwell Automation PLC platforms, Motion Control, Safety PLC Systems, OT networking, and industrial communication protocols • Experience with HMI/SCADA development, preferably Inductive Automation Ignition software • Exposure to AI assisted PLC code development, simulation tools, Digital Twins, and automated PLC testing • Ability to balance hands-on technical work with people leadership responsibilities • Strong communication and organizational skills • Valid driver’s license • Ability to drive and/or fly to client locations and company HQ

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Disability benefits • 401K • PTO • Expense reimbursement on a bi-weekly basis