AI Platform Engineer – Industrial Automation SDKs

Rockwell Automation (USA); Mayfield Heights (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k

Paid time off

Parental leave

Caregiver leave

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer for the Platforms Engineering team to build AI capabilities behind FactoryTalk Design Studio, FTOptix, and Logix Designer.

You will design services, SDKs, and tool interfaces enabling product teams to ship AI features in production. You will own subsystems from design to production, ensuring observability, performance budgets, and secure integration with OT/ICS constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software product development environment.
• Experience building and shipping production software in Python, C#, or C++.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools and LLM APIs in day-to-day work.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services, SDKs, and APIs for embedding AI in Rockwell products.
• Build and maintain MCP servers and tool interfaces for agent access to product/build/test systems.
• Develop evaluation suites and regression gates for AI feature quality, safety, latency, and cost.
• Own subsystem design through implementation, test, and production operation, including observability.
• Work with product teams, architects, and security to apply OT/ICS constraints to AI features.
• Prototype and evaluate new models and agent patterns; turn successful ones into platform capabilities.
• Improve the AI-assisted development loop and share learnings across teams.

Skills

Python

C#

C++

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Computer Science / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Tools

Azure

Containers

CI/CD

LLM APIs

Job description

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer for the Platforms Engineering team to build AI capabilities behind FactoryTalk Design Studio, FTOptix, and Logix Designer.

You will design services, SDKs, and tool interfaces enabling product teams to ship AI features in production. You will own subsystems from design to production, ensuring observability, performance budgets, and secure integration with OT/ICS constraints.