Top Automation Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design and develop tools and automation equipment to support manufacturing, collaborating with various teams and managing projects throughout the production cycle.

Design and develop tools and automation equipment for manufacturing. Collaborate across teams to optimize production processes for the Terran R vehicle.

The Staff Mechanical Design Engineer will design and develop tools and automation solutions for manufacturing, collaborating closely with various engineering teams.

The Automation & Controls Engineer will collaborate with engineers to develop automation projects, implement production systems, and enhance manufacturing processes for high-volume satellite production.

Develop, configure, test, and commission PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, alarm, historian, and industrial communication applications for nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Support FAT, SAT, loop checks, commissioning, troubleshooting, documentation, software configuration management, and safety logic testing under senior engineering direction. This early-career role emphasizes hands-on plant support, disciplined nuclear-quality records, code reviews, and progressive ownership of controls software.

Develop, configure, test, and commission PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, safety, historian, and enterprise integration software for nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Own controls software scope from specifications through commissioning and long-term support, troubleshoot system faults, implement industrial cybersecurity, prepare FAT/SAT plans, maintain nuclear-quality documentation, and provide technical direction to contractors and junior engineers.

Provides technical leadership for automation and controls software across nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Owns PLC/DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, alarm, safety logic, historian, enterprise integration, and OT cybersecurity architecture. Establishes standards, reviews engineering work, leads complex control solutions, oversees testing and commissioning, mentors engineers, and ensures compliance with nuclear quality and functional safety requirements.

Lead the development of production automation for satellite manufacturing, involving design, implementation, and mentorship of engineers while enhancing production reliability and efficiency.

Develops, tests, deploys, and supports attended and unattended UiPath RPA automations. Works with stakeholders to analyze processes, gather requirements, identify automation opportunities, and translate needs into technical solutions. Builds database and API integrations using SQL and programming languages, applies web technologies for browser automation, and maintains documentation. Troubleshoots automations, supports Agile and Waterfall development, participates in testing and project planning, and provides operational status updates.

Design, build, and maintain automation and control systems for bioreactors and bioprocessing equipment. Tune and troubleshoot PID control loops, improve system reliability through monitoring and fault recovery, and develop safe interfaces between cloud software and physical devices. Build sensor, actuator, and embedded-controller integrations while collaborating across mechanical, electrical, process, and software engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable automation solutions.

Develop and maintain Python-based automated test frameworks for software-, hardware-, and model-in-the-loop environments supporting power plant controllers and SCADA systems. Define verification and validation plans, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, execute tests across multiple environments, investigate requirements, analyze failures, and perform root cause analysis using engineering tools and telemetry. Collaborate with controls and systems teams to ensure reliable production-ready software.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Automate accounting and finance workflows across business systems, data exports, reports, and operational data sources. Responsibilities include improving reconciliations, journal-entry preparation, close tracking, reporting, exception management, and controls; building scripts, dashboards, templates, and workflows; connecting systems; documenting processes; and collaborating with accounting, finance, operations, and technology teams.

Partners with enterprise and MSP customers to identify network automation opportunities, analyze network environments and ITSM data, and architect automation solutions using NetBrain Runbooks, Qapps, Dataviews, and integrations. Trains customer engineers to maintain and expand automation capabilities, collaborates with vendor partners, researches automation content, and delivers reliable troubleshooting and network operations solutions.

Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and suites for UI, API, integration, database, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing. Create test strategies, plans, cases, and scenarios; validate system controls and compliance requirements; manage defects; analyze quality metrics; and support release and production validation. Collaborate with product, business analysis, development, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Design, build, commission, and improve automated manufacturing equipment, including robotic systems, feed lines, assembly stations, PLCs, HMIs, and motion-control systems. Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and software issues; develop documentation and control logic; and collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Supply Chain to deploy reliable, safe, repeatable production automation.

Serves as the strategic architect and technical lead for enterprise observability, APM, telemetry, and SRE ecosystems. Designs unified monitoring across hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy environments; establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident-response practices; leads automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and GitOps; and develops secure, scalable telemetry pipelines. The role also leads FOAK implementations, monitoring migrations, vendor transitions, knowledge-transfer programs, major incident escalations, operational handoffs, and engineering-team mentoring.

Design, build, and deploy manufacturing automation equipment and test systems to increase throughput, quality, and efficiency. Lead automation from concept through production, integrate hardware/software, support NPI transitions, perform ROI and process capability analysis, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to scale production.

Designs and operates enterprise observability, monitoring, telemetry, and automation solutions across infrastructure, applications, IoT platforms, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include managing Grafana and Instana ecosystems, dashboards, alerts, telemetry pipelines, incidents, RCA, databases, and platform health. Automates provisioning, monitoring deployment, remediation, and operational workflows using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, and Puppet. Supports 24x7 operations, major incidents, ITIL processes, service onboarding, documentation, and cross-functional reliability initiatives.

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.

Build and own automation systems that eliminate friction across engineering, operations, and compliance. Responsibilities include regulatory workflow automation, CI/CD and developer productivity tooling, AI- and LLM-enabled internal workflows, system integrations, and reliable production software with testing, observability, auditability, and failure handling.

Designs, develops, executes, and maintains UiPath automated testing solutions for SAP environments and related systems. Translates manual test cases and business processes into reusable, parameterized workflows for integration, regression, smoke, negative, and end-to-end testing. Configures test data, checkpoints, exception handling, logging, and evidence capture; analyzes failures, distinguishes application from automation defects, updates scripts, reports results, and supports Orchestrator monitoring, documentation, demonstrations, and knowledge transfer.

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.

Designs and maintains network automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, orchestration, and compliance solutions across enterprise and data center environments. Integrates networks with monitoring, CMDB, ITSM, and source-of-truth platforms; develops reusable frameworks, workflows, and libraries; mentors technical teams; supports DevOps, troubleshooting, documentation, and continuous improvement. The role also contributes to technical standards, cross-functional projects, planning sessions, site visits, and vendor engagements.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for shaping technical strategy and architecting automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image builds. The role involves developing production Go, AI- and LLM-powered developer tooling, quality frameworks, CLIs, and scalable services. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing roadmaps, improving reliability, and collaborating across distributed teams. Candidates need strong systems architecture, Linux, build systems, container ecosystem, and developer tooling experience, with familiarity in software supply chain security preferred.