Principal Automation & Controls System Engineer

About the Team: The Tooling and Factory Automation team sits at the intersection of design, manufacturing, and automation, making everything from large-scale structural fixtures to small tools that directly enable Terran R's production.

As a design group embedded within the manufacturing organization, we dig deep into the needs of our internal partners to understand root problems, propose solutions, and deliver hardware to help build faster, scale smarter, and work better.

The team is also at the forefront of Relativity's growing factory automation efforts, an increasingly critical part of scaling production of Terran R at existing and future facilities.

You'll have the autonomy to make decisions, field solutions, and see them in action on the factory floor.

Ultimately, you're not just designing tools or automated processes; you're defining how rockets and factories get built.

About the Role: As a Principal Automation Control Systems engineer, you will be responsible for the technical leadership and growing a team dedicated to building and expanding factory automation within the manufacturing organization.

Additional responsibilities include architecting automation solutions for the manufacturing organization.

The projects you work on will provide solutions across the factory ranging from quick turn interim development setups to large permanent infrastructure.

You will work in collaboration with mechanical, manufacturing, and design engineers to develop solutions tailored to a broad range of applications and manufacturing processes.

Once your hardware is built, you will also own implementation, working closely with technicians, operators, and end users - including writing and debugging control software.

Your projects will span a variety of construction methods, sizes, and applications.

These could include anything from simple data displays to large multi axis motion control equipment.

The kinds of projects you will work on may include: * Driving the technical direction of factory automation in the manufacturing group * Architecting factory automation solutions to improve speed, quality, reliability and efficiency in the manufacturing process * Large scale multi axis custom CNC based systems * Robotic based assembly and inspection equipment About You: * Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field * 18+ years of experience developing, activating, and troubleshooting CNC (Fanuc, Siemens), robotic (Fanuc, Kuka, Abb etc.), or automated systems (Beckhoff, etc.) * Experience designing, project managing, and executing on robotic and automation systems in a rate production or factory setting * Experience writing software for industry standard control systems (CNC, PLCs, motor drives) * Demonstrated ability to design and implement industrial safety systems including risk assessments * Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate technical risks in complex systems Nice to haves but not required: * Experience producing electrical and pneumatics documentation * Experience writing control software for Siemens CNCs/PLCs * Experience with Kuka, Fanuc, ABB, or similar robotics control systems * Experience with communications methods such as, but not limited to, Profinet, Ethernet, EtherCAT, and CANbus.