Automation Engineer

Cubiq Recruitment; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 100.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Cubiq Recruitment is seeking an Automation Engineer – Beckhoff TwinCAT to own the PLC and machine-control software for a high-precision robotic manufacturing platform in Switzerland. You will drive the architecture, implement modular PLC code, and integrate motion, sensors and actuators across multiple machines.

You will collaborate with hardware, software and physics teams, commission and debug on-site, and scale the platform from prototype to commercial production.

Qualifikationen

• 2+ years hands-on Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 experience.
• Experience writing object-oriented PLC software, not just procedural logic.
• Strong Structured Text, HMI development and EtherCAT familiarity.
• Practical experience commissioning and debugging real industrial machinery.
• Experience integrating sensors, actuators, servo drives, motion systems or other industrial hardware.
• Ability to diagnose across software and physical machinery.
• Comfort with technical ownership without a large automation team.

Aufgaben

• Develop and extend Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 machine-control software.
• Build modular, object-oriented PLC architectures for multiple hardware platforms.
• Develop machine logic and HMI functionality.
• Integrate hardware through EtherCAT and motion systems.
• Commission, debug and validate hardware and software in machines.
• Troubleshoot issues across software, electronics and hardware.
• Support new machine modules, upgrades and customer installations.
• Improve testing, diagnostics, reliability and maintainability as platforms scale.

Kenntnisse

Beckhoff TwinCAT 3

Structured Text

HMI development

EtherCAT

Industrial hardware integration

Machine commissioning

Python/C/C++ in industrial systems

Tools

TwinCAT development tools

Jobbeschreibung

Salary: CHF 100,000-120,000 + equity, depending on experience

Working model: Predominantly onsite

Visa: Sponsorship and international relocation support available

Language: English required; German is not essential

We are partnering with an early-stage Swiss deep-tech company developing a new generation of high-precision robotic manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor, quantum and advanced electronics industries.

Their technology uses highly precise automation to integrate advanced materials onto semiconductor wafers, helping take processes that have traditionally been difficult to scale beyond the laboratory towards repeatable industrial production.

Having successfully validated the technology with customers, the team is now moving towards commercial deployment of complete machines that customers can operate within their own cleanroom environments.

They are now hiring an Automation Engineer – Beckhoff TwinCAT to become the first dedicated internal owner of their PLC and machine-control software.

The role

This is not a conventional PLC maintenance position.

You will take ownership of an existing object-oriented TwinCAT platform and help develop it into a reliable, modular machine-control system that can scale across new hardware, future machines and customer deployments.

Working closely with the founders and engineers across hardware, software and physics, you will be responsible for areas including:

• Developing and extending Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 machine-control software
• Building clean, modular and object-oriented PLC architectures
• Developing machine logic and HMI functionality
• Integrating hardware through EtherCAT
• Controlling and integrating motion systems, sensors, actuators, cameras and other machine components
• Commissioning and debugging physical equipment
• Troubleshooting issues across software, electronics and hardware
• Supporting new machine modules, upgrades and customer installations
• Improving testing, diagnostics, reliability and maintainability as the platform moves from prototype to commercial equipment

What we are looking for

The priority is someone who combines strong automation experience with good software-engineering fundamentals. You should have:

• Strong hands-on experience (2+ years) with Beckhoff TwinCAT 3
• Experience writing structured, object-oriented PLC software rather than purely procedural machine logic
• Strong experience with Structured Text, HMI development and EtherCAT
• Practical experience commissioning and debugging real industrial machinery
• Experience integrating sensors, actuators, servo drives, motion systems or other industrial hardware
• The ability to diagnose problems across software and physical machinery
• Confidence taking technical ownership without requiring a large automation team around you

Extra points if you have experience with

• Semiconductor equipment, microelectronics assembly, precision automation, robotics, machine vision, metrology or other high-accuracy machinery
• C#, C++, C or Python experience within industrial systems is also valuable.

Why you should consider this?

You would be joining at an important point in the company's development: the underlying technology has been proven, customer demand is developing, and the engineering challenge is now moving towards building machines that can operate reliably outside the lab.

Rather than becoming one engineer within a large controls department, you will become the internal owner of the automation platform, with significant influence over how the machine-control architecture develops.

As the company grows, there is also scope for this position to develop into broader technical leadership and potentially build an automation function around you.