Senior Automation Engineer: Industrial Control & AI

Spacex; Bastrop, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX is hiring a Sr. Automation Engineer for the Blades and Vanes Foundry. You will design, develop, and maintain core control systems for investment casting, integrating PLC/SCADA with MES and energy systems to optimize production in real time.

You will architect and implement scalable data systems, create HMI/SCADA interfaces, and lead reliability analyses to improve uptime, while balancing safety standards and production requirements in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, physics, or computer science discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in design and commissioning of automation and controls systems for industrial applications.

Responsibilities

• Integrate electromechanical and mechatronic systems with investment casting equipment.
• Design and develop manufacturing data systems from concept to production and analyze KPI trends.
• Implement data collection/storage using Python/SQL interfacing with MES and production databases.

Skills

Automation engineering

Industrial automation

PLC programming

Python

SQL

HMI/SCADA

Electrical systems

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/physics/CS

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

Beckhoff PLC

ePLAN

Job description

SpaceX in Bastrop, TX is hiring a Sr. Automation Engineer for the Blades and Vanes Foundry. You will design, develop, and maintain core control systems for investment casting, integrating PLC/SCADA with MES and energy systems to optimize production in real time.

You will architect and implement scalable data systems, create HMI/SCADA interfaces, and lead reliability analyses to improve uptime, while balancing safety standards and production requirements in a fast-paced environment.