Senior Automation Controls Engineer

Blue Origin; Central (TX); On-site; USD 150,931 - 211,303; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Stock options

Education assistance

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an Automation Controls Engineer to design, implement, and integrate automated manufacturing controls across our facilities. You will drive control-system architectures, safety considerations, and offline simulations to ensure robust production capabilities.

The role spans R&D, design, build, installation, and commissioning, offering growth through full project ownership and first‑principles problem solving in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Controls, or related engineering field.
• Minimum 4 years of hands‑on experience developing or integrating industrial controls and automation systems, including PLC and HMI programming as core competencies.
• Exposure to one or more industrial automation platforms such as robots, material handling systems, CNC machine integration, NDT, assembly, testing, or process tools.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and review electrical and mechanical drawings.
• Experience with industrial safety system design including functional safety devices, safety PLCs, and safety‑rated circuits.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with applications engineers on conceptual automated manufacturing equipment, contributing controls architecture input from concept through detailed design.
• Design and support control system architectures including network topology, I/O distribution, safety systems, and communication protocols.
• Participate in the industrial controls and electrical design of bespoke automation systems.
• Apply engineering first principles to analyze system behavior, identify root causes, and develop technically sound solutions to novel automation challenges.
• Develop offline simulations of automated systems to validate control logic, robot paths, cycle times, and system behavior prior to hardware availability.
• Support and execute online debugging and commissioning of PLC, HMI, robot, and similar industrial controls programs.
• Integrate auxiliary equipment, machines, and tools into unified control systems.
• Work with panel fabricators and field installation teams; provide technical support during system integration and commissioning.
• Support and lead factory and site acceptance testing, and contribute to the build, installation, commissioning, and start‑up of automated manufacturing systems.
• Create controls documentation packages including sequence of operations, I/O lists, network diagrams, and program documentation.

Skills

Industrial controls

PLC programming

HMI programming

Electrical drawings

Safety systems

Root cause analysis

System integration

Hardware debugging

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechatronics

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

EPLAN

Plant Simulate

KUKA.Sim

RobotStudio

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an Automation Controls Engineer to design, implement, and integrate automated manufacturing controls across our facilities. You will drive control-system architectures, safety considerations, and offline simulations to ensure robust production capabilities.

The role spans R&D, design, build, installation, and commissioning, offering growth through full project ownership and first‑principles problem solving in a fast‑paced environment.