Plant Data & AI-Driven Systems Integration Engineer

Corning Incorporated; Town of Canton (NY); On-site; USD 87,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonuses

Pension plan

401(k) matching

Health benefits

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off

EAP

Job summary

Corning Incorporated seeks a Manufacturing Systems Integration Engineer to design, implement, and support secure data integrations across plant floor systems and enterprise IT. You will enable reliable data exchange via APIs, middleware, and databases to power analytics, automation, and AI initiatives.

Join a team driving digital manufacturing, interoperability, and data governance across SCADA, MES/CAMSTAR, PAC, SQL Server, and cloud environments while ensuring secure operations in a regulated

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in systems integration, application integration, enterprise systems support, OT/IT convergence, or related technical roles.
• Experience supporting manufacturing platforms such as MES, CAMSTAR, SCADA, PAC, historians, or similar plant systems.
• Hands‑on experience with APIs, web services, middleware, database integrations, file transfers, or message-based integration patterns.
• Experience troubleshooting system interfaces, data flows, connectivity issues, and transaction-processing problems across multiple systems.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and relational database concepts.
• Experience with one or more scripting or programming languages, such as Python, Java, C#, or .NET.
• Familiarity with modern data platforms, automation solutions, or AI-enabled business environments, and the role of integrated data in enabling them.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and secure communications in segmented manufacturing environments.
• US Citizenship required
• In order to comply with Corning’s government contract requirements at this location, if you receive an offer of employment for this position, you will need to provide documentation of your U.S. citizen status.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support integrations between manufacturing systems, OT platforms, and enterprise IT applications.
• Develop and maintain interfaces using APIs, middleware, SQL/database integrations, file-based exchanges, and event/message-driven architectures.
• Support interoperability across platforms such as SCADA, MES/CAMSTAR, PAC, SQL Server, Power BI, and enterprise/cloud data environments.
• Troubleshoot interface failures, data-flow issues, and application connectivity problems, and perform root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Partner with manufacturing, engineering, enterprise IT, infrastructure, networking, and cybersecurity teams to deliver secure, supportable integration solutions.
• Enable reliable manufacturing data pipelines that support reporting, automation, analytics, and AI-driven use cases.
• Support the integration of manufacturing data into enterprise platforms such as Databricks and other cloud/data environments for advanced analytics and AI applications.
• Help establish standards for data quality, governance, documentation, and supportability across integrated manufacturing systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including interface designs, data mappings, support procedures, and system dependencies.
• Support testing, deployment, validation, release activities, and ongoing operational support for manufacturing interfaces and connected applications.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that improve system interoperability, scalability, and readiness for future digital and AI capabilities.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting

Communication

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

SQL Server

APIs

Middleware

Databricks/AWS/Azure

Power BI

Job description

Corning Incorporated seeks a Manufacturing Systems Integration Engineer to design, implement, and support secure data integrations across plant floor systems and enterprise IT. You will enable reliable data exchange via APIs, middleware, and databases to power analytics, automation, and AI initiatives.

Join a team driving digital manufacturing, interoperability, and data governance across SCADA, MES/CAMSTAR, PAC, SQL Server, and cloud environments while ensuring secure operations in a regulated