Automation Engineer

Comprehensive knowledge of industry experience deploying automation systems in manufacturing or a related industry.

Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering teams to build, install, or troubleshoot automation equipment.

Comprehensive experience programming industrial-grade PLCs, such as Allen-Bradley and Beckhoff systems, and industrial-grade robotic arms, such as KUKA, FANUC, and Universal Robots.

Experience designing and implementing electrical, pneumatic, and mechanical systems.

Experience with CAD and other design software packages.

Experience building industrial closed-loop control systems.

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Position Information

This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.

Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

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to assist in the development and delivery of complex automation and robotics projects supporting LLNL’s programmatic and scientific missions.

You will assist engineering staff and management by contributing to a multidisciplinary and dynamic portfolio of engineering and research.

You will bring hands-on experience programming robotics and PLCs, supporting the commissioning of safety-compliant systems, and designing and building physical systems, including electrical panels, robotic cells, complex electromechanical systems, and safety systems.

This position is in the Materials Engineering Division (MED) of the Engineering Directorate.

Work independently, under general direction, to design, build, commission, and troubleshoot automation, robotics, and mechatronics projects using standard techniques and fundamental knowledge, while adhering to defined practices and procedures.

Leverage industry-proven industrial automation technologies, including but not limited to programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human-machine interfaces (HMIs), machine vision systems, sensors, actuators, and various robot systems.

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability.

Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.