Senior Automation Controls Engineer

Blue Origin; Hutto (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an Automation Controls Engineer to join the Factory Automation team within Operations. You will design, build, and deploy custom equipment and systems for scalable production across manufacturing units.

The role spans R&D, design, build, installation, and commissioning, offering growth in technical depth and ownership across the project lifecycle. You will apply engineering fundamentals to diagnose complex failures, optimize control logic, and work with cross-functional

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.
• Exposure to industrial automation platforms and tooling across robots, material handling, CNC, NDT, assembly, testing, or process tools.
• Ability to interpret and review electrical and mechanical drawings; familiarity with safety systems and safety-rated circuits.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with applications engineers on conceptual automated manufacturing equipment and contribute 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 first principles to analyze system behavior, identify root causes, and develop sound solutions to novel challenges.
• Develop offline simulations to validate control logic, robot paths, and system behavior prior to hardware availability.
• Support online debugging and commissioning of PLC, HMI, robot, and related 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.
• Lead factory and site acceptance testing and contribute to build, installation, commissioning, and start-up of automated manufacturing systems.
• Create controls documentation: sequence of operations, I/O lists, network diagrams, and program documentation.

Skills

Interpret electrical/mechanical Draws

Industrial safety system design

Root cause analysis

Principles-based problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronics/Controls

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

EPLAN

Plant Simulate

Process Simulate

KUKA.Sim

RobotStudio

Cognex machine vision

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an Automation Controls Engineer to join the Factory Automation team within Operations. You will design, build, and deploy custom equipment and systems for scalable production across manufacturing units.

The role spans R&D, design, build, installation, and commissioning, offering growth in technical depth and ownership across the project lifecycle. You will apply engineering fundamentals to diagnose complex failures, optimize control logic, and work with cross-functional