AI Platform Engineer – Production-Grade & OT/ICS Ready

Rockwell Automation, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance including Medical, R,

Job summary

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a senior platform engineer to design and ship AI capabilities across FactoryTalk Design Studio, FTOptix, and Logix Designer.

You will build platform services, SDKs, and APIs, and maintain MCP servers for controlled access to product and test environments. You will prototype new models, evaluate AI feature quality, and ensure security and OT/ICS compliance while collaborating with product, security, and architecture teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• 1 8 years of experience in software product development environment.
• Experience building and shipping production software in Python, C#, or C++ with API design.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools and LLM APIs in daily work.
• Experience with Azure, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building and evaluating LLM applications: tool calling, retrieval, agent frameworks, MCP, and offline eval design.
• Familiarity with industrial automation concepts such as PLC programming, OPC UA, or engineering tools.
• Experience applying secure development practices to features embedding LLMs and agents.
• Clear written and verbal communication across engineering, product, and architecture teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services, SDKs, and APIs for embedding AI capabilities in Rockwell software.
• Build and maintain MCP servers and tool interfaces for governed access to product/test systems.
• Develop evaluation suites and regression gates to measure AI quality, safety, latency, and cost.
• Own subsystem design from implementation to production operation, including observability and budgets.
• Collaborate with product teams, architects, and security to enforce OT/ICS constraints in AI features.
• Prototype and evaluate new models and agent patterns, turning successes into platform capabilities.
• Improve the AI-assisted development loop and share learnings across engineering teams.

Skills

Strong communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Security-focused development

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Degree in Computer Science/Software/EE

Tools

Python

C#

C++

Azure

Containers

CI/CD pipelines

LLM APIs

MCP

Job description

Rockwell Automation, Inc. is seeking a senior platform engineer to design and ship AI capabilities across FactoryTalk Design Studio, FTOptix, and Logix Designer.

You will build platform services, SDKs, and APIs, and maintain MCP servers for controlled access to product and test environments. You will prototype new models, evaluate AI feature quality, and ensure security and OT/ICS compliance while collaborating with product, security, and architecture teams.