Autonomous Factory Data & Controls Engineer

Hadrian Automation; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

Relocation assistance

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian in Torrance, CA, is seeking a seasoned Automation/Data Integration Engineer to connect production equipment to higher-level software systems. You will own schemas, data pipelines, and end-to-end traceability, partnering with OEMs and internal teams to ensure robust, compliant interfaces across platforms.

You will lead implementations of machine connectivity, time-series storage, and safety interlocks, while collaborating across IT, Security, and engineering.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Controls/Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years connecting production manufacturing equipment to higher-level software systems — MES, SCADA, historian, or data platforms.
• Hands-on fluency with industrial machine communication: OPC-UA and MQTT; PLC platforms; Siemens S7 and TIA Portal preferred.
• Ability to integrate OEM interfaces and work with log formats, file drops, and vendor data access.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with time-series storage for high-rate machine data.
• Experience designing data pipelines and monitoring the pipeline.
• Proficiency in Python for integration and data tooling with version control.
• Experience implementing or validating safety interlock systems in production manufacturing.
• Ability to define technical interfaces and data requirements and manage interface documentation.
• On-site full-time in Torrance, CA; travel up to 25%.
• ITAR compliance is required.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the connectivity layer across the manufacturing fleet, including log, file, and tag-level extraction.
• Own schemas, tag dictionaries, naming conventions, units, and versioning for scalable integration.
• Design, build, and operate telemetry and build data pipelines with uptime and data integrity guarantees.
• Define how machines report activities and how work is dispatched for end-to-end traceability.
• Define interfaces and verify delivery against baselines; maintain change-controlled documents.
• Instrument supplementary sensing and edge compute to augment native machine data.
• Collaborate with IT and Security to bring controllers onto a compliant network.
• Support commissioning, FAT/SAT from a controls standpoint to meet Hadrian standards.
• Support handoff from build prep software to machine execution and back to manufacturing records.
• Establish and maintain OEM relationships for interface and data access.
• Provide data integrity and audit trail support for qualification engineers and other teams.
• Lead structured problem-solving on integration and data anomalies using 8D/5 Whys.

Skills

OPC-UA

MQTT

Industrial PLCs

OEM interfaces

SQL

Time-series storage

Data pipelines

Python

Safety interlocks

Interface specs

ITAR compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Job description

Hadrian in Torrance, CA, is seeking a seasoned Automation/Data Integration Engineer to connect production equipment to higher-level software systems. You will own schemas, data pipelines, and end-to-end traceability, partnering with OEMs and internal teams to ensure robust, compliant interfaces across platforms.

You will lead implementations of machine connectivity, time-series storage, and safety interlocks, while collaborating across IT, Security, and engineering.