Senior Production Systems Engineer – Autonomous Tech

Fortescue Metals Group; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortescue Metals Group in Perth, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Production Systems. The role focuses on ensuring reliability, performance and continuous improvement of autonomous production systems.

You will lead investigations, resolve critical incidents and drive engineering improvements in collaboration with site teams and customers. The position requires hands-on technical leadership, mentoring of engineers, and strong communication to multi-disciplinary stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and production engineering.
• Proven ability to investigate and resolve complex production issues.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting across software, OS, networks and systems.
• Experience mentoring teams and driving engineering improvements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in diverse audiences.
• Familiarity with autonomous systems and safety-critical software is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex production incidents and root cause analyses.
• Own escalated technical issues from triage to resolution.
• Diagnose issues across software, services, infrastructure and interfaces.
• Develop sustainable fixes and improved operational practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve challenges.
• Mentor colleagues and promote best engineering practices.
• Improve monitoring, tooling and documentation for reliability.
• Communicate findings and risks clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Software engineering

Production engineering

Technical support

Root cause analysis

Mentoring

Communication

Autonomous systems

Tools

C#

TypeScript

C++

Linux

Networking

Containers

Distributed systems

Job description

Fortescue Metals Group in Perth, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Production Systems. The role focuses on ensuring reliability, performance and continuous improvement of autonomous production systems.

You will lead investigations, resolve critical incidents and drive engineering improvements in collaboration with site teams and customers. The position requires hands-on technical leadership, mentoring of engineers, and strong communication to multi-disciplinary stakeholders.