Hybrid Control Systems Engineer — PLC & Automation

Fulton; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Onsite fitness club

Retirement plan

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Voluntary disability insurance

Voluntary life insurance

Employee assistance program

Vacation time

Paid holidays

Profit share bonus

Job summary

Fulton is seeking a Control Systems Engineer to develop, test, and maintain complex control systems for commercial equipment. This role combines software development with hands-on electronics testing and requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable, safe, and high‑performance solutions.

You will design hardware and software components, validate systems, and document specifications while traveling as needed to support development, training, and customer installations.

Qualifications

• Experience troubleshooting controls hardware and software.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mechatronics, Software Engineering or related field.
• Preferred: 3+ years of PLC ladder logic programming; proficiency in C and C++ (or C#).

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and improves control systems, including hardware, software and GUIs.
• Performs hardware qualification and validation to ensure quality and user experience.
• Troubleshoots, reproduces, and resolves complex system issues with root-cause analysis.
• Provides training and support to internal teams and customers as a subject matter expert.
• Willing to travel to support development, training, troubleshooting, testing and data collection.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation and communicates progress to stakeholders.

Skills

PLC ladder logic

Procedural programming (C)

Object-oriented programming (C++, C#)

Communication

Analytical thinking

Technical troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mechatronics, Software Engineering or related field

Tools

PLC hardware/software tools

Job description

Fulton is seeking a Control Systems Engineer to develop, test, and maintain complex control systems for commercial equipment. This role combines software development with hands-on electronics testing and requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable, safe, and high‑performance solutions.

You will design hardware and software components, validate systems, and document specifications while traveling as needed to support development, training, and customer installations.