Manufacturing Data & Automation Architect

Touchdown Labs; Tool (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Touchdown Labs seeks an experienced Manufacturing Automation & Data Engineer to build the software record that reconstructs how physical results were produced. You'll connect equipment, materials, measurements, and approvals while maintaining human release authority and audit trails.

You will model identifiers for workpieces, lots, steps, recipes, and equipment, implement controls, and ensure data integrity across MES/LIMS interfaces and SPC feeds.

Qualifications

• Experience building manufacturing data systems with traceability and audit trails.
• Knowledge of data integrity, security, and change control in regulated/semiregulated environments.
• Ability to design transactional state changes and recovery for systems connected to physical operations.

Responsibilities

• Build travelers, product genealogy, recipe/version records, alarms, access controls, and rollback.
• Model workpiece, lot, process step, recipe, equipment, operator, material, and measurement identity.
• Connect equipment data and lab results while preserving access control and rollback.
• Define failure behavior for duplicate IDs, missing tool data, late measurements, interrupted steps, and conflicting edits.
• Build views to trace a unit from receipt to final test.

Skills

Manufacturing software

Equipment interfaces

Data integrity

Security

Change control

Tools

SECS/GEM

OPC UA

MES

LIMS

SPC

Job description

Touchdown Labs seeks an experienced Manufacturing Automation & Data Engineer to build the software record that reconstructs how physical results were produced. You'll connect equipment, materials, measurements, and approvals while maintaining human release authority and audit trails.

You will model identifiers for workpieces, lots, steps, recipes, and equipment, implement controls, and ensure data integrity across MES/LIMS interfaces and SPC feeds.