USAControls Engineer II, Sustaining Engineering
1 мес. назад
USAMiddle
plcscadaroboticsinstrumentationroot cause analysis
Support and improve reliability and lifecycle performance of automated scientific lab equipment through troubleshooting, maintenance, and upgrades.
Требования
- 2 to 5+ years supporting, maintaining, or troubleshooting automated control systems.
- Hands-on experience with PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and related automation platforms.
- Experience with OT networking, including routing, security groups, VPNs, or similar systems.
- Experience using Git or equivalent version control for engineering artifacts.
- Ability to create and maintain engineering documents using AutoCAD, SolidWorks Electrical, or similar tools.
- Experience with robotics integration, structured text, or related automation programming.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, software, networking, and integrated equipment.
Будет плюсом
- Ignition experience or Ignition Gold Certification.
- Structured text, TwinCAT, Python, C++, or similar programming experience.
- Experience with OPC-UA, MQTT, REST APIs, or related communication protocols.
- Familiarity with safety classifications such as SIL or PL.
- Experience with reliability methods such as FMEA, CAPA, RCM, or preventive maintenance strategy.
Условия
- We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
- U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.
- International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
Другое
- Lila is seeking a Controls Engineer on our Sustaining Engineering team to support the reliability and lifecycle performance of automated scientific equipment across our lab operations environment. This role works on deployed automation systems, including integrated robotics, PLCs, SCADA, instrumentation, and connected equipment.
- You will troubleshoot multi-disciplinary issues, maintain and improve controls infrastructure, and support upgrades that keep laboratory workflows running reliably. The work spans incident response, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, vendor software integration, documentation, and system lifecycle management.
- This is an execution-focused engineering role for someone who enjoys hands-on problem solving in complex lab automation environments. Success means improving uptime, reducing recurring faults, and helping automation systems become safer, more reliable, and easier to maintain over time.
- Maintain and improve deployed PLC, SCADA, and robotics control systems.
- Troubleshoot incidents across controls, robotics, instrumentation, networking, and integrated equipment.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement fixes that reduce recurring faults.
- Update wrappers connecting third-party equipment and vendor software to controls systems.
- Sustain PLC-based safety systems for equipment, robotics, and conveyance workflows.
- Plan preventive maintenance, patching, backups, upgrades, and component lifecycle work.
- Keep P&IDs, wiring schematics, control narratives, and IO lists current.
- Track uptime, MTBF, MTTR, and recurring faults to guide reliability improvements.
- Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
- LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at
- Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.
- Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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