SCADA Automation Engineer – Ignition

Divergent; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Paid vacation

Paid parental leave

Health insurance

Learning & development reimbursements

Job summary

Divergent is redefining the industrial age from Los Angeles, building advanced systems for aerospace, defense, and automotive sectors. The Automation Controls Engineer (SCADA) will own the Ignition SCADA platform, manage factory data and telemetry, and help scale data architecture for the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS).

The role blends industrial automation with software and data skills, with growth into PLCs, robotics, motion control, and electrical systems as opportunities arise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline or relevant automation & controls experience.
• Experience with Ignition SCADA and related tooling is preferred.
• Knowledge of industrial data architectures and data quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Own, develop, and maintain the Ignition SCADA platform for factory data and telemetry.
• Design and deploy SCADA apps, dashboards, trends, alarms, and reports for production and engineering teams.
• Integrate PLCs, equipment, and facility systems into a scalable factory data architecture.
• Maintain data structures, tag standards, naming conventions, and interfaces for accessible data.
• Support reliability and performance of the SCADA environment and troubleshoot issues.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, facilities, IT, and other teams to translate needs into data solutions.
• Contribute to broader automation development and new DAPS modules and R&D systems.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or relevant discipline

Tools

Ignition (Perspective) / Gateway administration

Tags, scripting, alarming

OPC UA

MQTT / Sparkplug B

SQL / Historians and dashboards

Industrial networking / connectivity

Git version control

IEC 61131-3 PLC languages

Beckhoff TwinCAT

Electrical schematic tools (EPLAN/AutoCAD Electrical)

Job description

Divergent is redefining the industrial age from Los Angeles, building advanced systems for aerospace, defense, and automotive sectors. The Automation Controls Engineer (SCADA) will own the Ignition SCADA platform, manage factory data and telemetry, and help scale data architecture for the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS).

The role blends industrial automation with software and data skills, with growth into PLCs, robotics, motion control, and electrical systems as opportunities arise.