NewManufacturing Automation Engineer Kalon Executive SearchManufacturing Automation EngineerSan Diego, CA$124,000–$150,000 / yearThis role is ideal for an engineering professional with strong hands-on automation and controls experience who enjoys improving manufacturing processes, leading capital projects, and implementing innovative technologies to increase efficiency and reliability. Troubleshoot complex manufacturing and packaging equipment issues involving PLCs, HMIs, vision systems, sensors, servo systems, robotics, industrial networks, and machine communications.
Automation Engineer TalentryAutomation EngineerVista, CaliforniaThis role focuses on leading automation initiatives for production and packaging systems, driving continuous improvements, and ensuring operational efficiency through hands-on technical expertise. Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in manufacturing automation, ideally within regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, or food production.
Manufacturing and Automation Engineer Nordic NaturalsManufacturing and Automation EngineerVista, California$124,000–$136,000 / yearLead automation, controls, and systems engineering initiatives across manufacturing and packaging operations, including compounding, encapsulation, capsule drying, sorting, capsule bottling, liquid filling, labeling, cartoning, case packing, palletizing, and future manufacturing and packaging technologies. The role partners closely with Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Validation, and Supply Chain teams to ensure manufacturing systems operate safely, reliably, and efficiently while supporting future capacity expansion and technological advancement.
Sr. Automation Engineer - Simply Biotech TalentZokSr. Automation Engineer - Simply BiotechSan Diego, CA$112,000–$118,000 / yearIn the role, you will assemble automation workcells, deliver custom engineering projects, conduct instrumentation and Green Button Go driver testing, and develop evolving technologies across collaborative and mobile robotics, and vision and control solutions. Automation Engineer in San Diego, CA who possess:High level/technical ability in Controls, Robotics & PLC (life sciences or industrial industry preferred) .
Senior Mechanical and Automation Engineer Nitto HydranauticsSenior Mechanical and Automation EngineerOceanside, CAFull timeThis role requires multidisciplinary expertise spanning mechanical design, electrical systems, and PLC/automation programming, with a strong automation mindset and advanced proficiency in risk management tools including Process FMEA (PFMEA), Machine FMEA, Assembly FMEA, Poka Yoke error-proofing, Risk Priority Number (RPN) management, and Control Plan governance. Lead and facilitate Process FMEA (PFMEA), Machine FMEA, and Assembly FMEA sessions across new and existing manufacturing equipment and processes; assign Severity, Occurrence, and Detection ratings; calculate and manage Risk Priority Numbers (RPN); and drive corrective actions to target RPN thresholds prior to production release.
Automation Engineer AbzenaAutomation EngineerSan Diego, CaliforniaThis role supports end users in diagnosing, repairing, and upgrading control systems and instrumentation, and completing cGMP documentation including corrective and/or preventive actions, change controls, deviations, qualifications/validations, and addressing of audit observations. Forward-thinking and committed, we find the best solution and use the right technologies to design, develop and manufacture your products to ensure we get vital medicines to patients quickly and safely.
Industrial Automation Engineer ApolisIndustrial Automation EngineerSan Diego, CA$105,000 / yearMust-haves: 7+ years of PLC programming experience, with strong focus on Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 / Structured Text. Has worked with messy, inherited PLC code before — not just greenfield projects.
AI Automation Engineer ProofpointAI Automation EngineerSan Diego, CA$123,200–$193,600 / yearIn this role, you will design, build, and continuously evolve the AI-driven applications and tools — chat assistants, workflow automations, and increasingly autonomous agents — that make our post-sales revenue-focused teams (Customer Success, Renewals, Technical Account Management, Managed Services) exponentially more effective and efficient. + Assess which AI logic should live at which layer — what should be centralized versus decentralized across different vendors and clouds — and continuously evaluate the ensemble of AI tooling: LLMs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, etc.) and orchestration platforms (Amazon Quick Automate, UnifyApps, open source, and others).
Manufacturing Automation Engineer IV nVent Electric Inc.Manufacturing Automation Engineer IVSan Diego, CA$89,300–$165,800 / yearWe provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes: Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance. In this position, you will get to apply manufacturing automation leadership experience to evaluate, define and optimize manufacturing processes and systems to improve: safety, quality, OEE, production rates/efficiencies, yields, costs, changeovers, and process capability.
Manufacturing Automation Engineer V nVent Electric Inc.Manufacturing Automation Engineer VSan Diego, CA$105,000–$195,000 / yearWe provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes: Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance. In this position, you will get to apply manufacturing automation leadership experience to evaluate, define and optimize manufacturing processes and systems to measure improvement of safety, quality, OEE, production rates/efficiencies, yields, costs, changeovers, and process capability.
Principal Automation Engineer FirestormPrincipal Automation EngineerSan Diego, CaliforniaTo conform to U.S. government export control regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or otherwise eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce. This role is responsible for delivering integrated, reliable systems across autonomy, vehicle control, and verification, with direct impact on platforms that are designed, built, and flown on rapid timelines.
Linux Systems Automation Engineer Booz Allen HamiltonLinux Systems Automation EngineerSan Diego, California$86,900–$198,000 / yearIn this role, you will bring your Linux automation expertise to bear in building secure, hardened, and scalable RHEL environments for a government client, developing automated workflows using Python, Ansible, and modern virtualization technologies. You will design and evolve enterprise‑scale monitoring and automation solutions, collaborate with architects and engineers across adjacent technologies, and drive modernization initiatives in cloud, automation, virtualization, and data center operations.
NewManufacturing Automation Engineer Insight GlobalManufacturing Automation EngineerOceanside, CAThis role will work directly with engineering teams, manufacturing leaders, quality stakeholders, and external automation partners to deliver innovative solutions that optimize production processes across injection molding, inspection, assembly, and packaging operations. This individual will be responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing automation and semi-automation solutions that improve manufacturing performance across quality, delivery, capacity, and cost objectives.
Automation and Controls Engineer CDM SmithAutomation and Controls EngineerCarlsbad, CaliforniaIn addition, during employment individuals may be required by CDM Smith or a CDM Smith client to successfully complete additional background checks, including motor vehicle record as well as drug testing. Background Check and Drug Testing Information: CDM Smith Inc. and its divisions and subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred to as “CDM Smith”) reserves the right to require background checks including criminal, employment, education, licensure, etc.
Ai/Ml Driven Asic Design And Implementation Automation Engineer NXP Semiconductor, Inc.Ai/Ml Driven Asic Design And Implementation Automation EngineerSan Diego, CA$147,900–$203,400 / yearAs an AI/ML driven ASIC Design and Implementation Automation Engineer in our Advanced Chip Engineering (ACE) organization, you will work in a dynamic environment to explore methodology, flows and tools to improve efficiency and quality of results (power, performance, area, and quality) for SoC and IP development teams across the organization. Work closely with Academic research communities in AI/ML for VLSI design, Architecture teams, IP and SoC designers and SoC Implementation teams from multiple sites to explore and evaluate for leading edge SoC technologies serving multiple industries.
Senior Automation Engineer - High Throughput Experimentation SatomicSenior Automation Engineer - High Throughput ExperimentationSan Diego, CaliforniaBuilding a team of diverse and thoughtful voices gives us the best chance of delivering a platform that not only advances the future of chemistry and drug discovery, but does so responsibly and with lasting positive impact on our world. On the build side, that means taking an experimental design and turning it into something the automation can actually run: plate maps, worklists, and the parameters the instruments need, generated rather than assembled by hand.
Infrastructure Automation Engineer II Moebius Solutions, Inc.Infrastructure Automation Engineer IISan Diego, CA$95,000–$115,000 / yearMinimum of 5 years of experience with infrastructure automation, containerization, virtualization, and cloud technologies, demonstrated experience with several of the following technologies, including Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Helm, VMware vSphere, and/or Red Hat Virtualization (RHEV), AWS services, including EC2, VPC, and S3, Artifactory and/or Nexus, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) . Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related field, with demonstrated expertise in Linux (RHEL) administration, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD pipeline development utilizing Tekton and/or Jenkins.
Senior Automation Engineer, R&D AbbottSenior Automation Engineer, R&DLa Jolla, California$78,000–$156,000 / yearThe successful candidate has experience working in a collaborative, fast-paced team to build scalable, highly integrated automation platforms which enable users to reliably and efficiently deliver timely, high-quality results in a regulated environment. The Senior Automation Engineer, R&D will develop and deploy robust laboratory automation solutions for Next-Generation Sequencing based assays in support of high complexity laboratory developed tests.
QA Automation Engineer Oneco 1QA Automation EngineerSan, AlaskaYou’ll help pilot new ways of working that reduce manual effort, catch defects earlier, and improve the signal-to-noise ratio in our CI pipeline—whether through smarter automation, better tooling, or new AI-integrated approaches to test reliability and triage. This is a highly visible and critical role to help define and implement QA processes within different teams, plus help with manual and automation testing to test our products thoroughly and deliver with high quality.
Azure Automation Engineer Kleinfelder IncAzure Automation EngineerSan Diego, California$75,850–$126,585 / yearFull timeFrom Accounting & Finance, Human Resources, Marketing & Communications, and Information Technology to Legal and Health & Safety, our corporate employees are part of the Kleinfelder ecosystem – supporting the projects that improve the communities we work and live in. . In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.