Automation & Controls Engineer

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San Carlos, CA
Mid level
3D Printing • Healthtech • Biotech
The Role
The Automation & Controls Engineer will oversee automation system development, equipment integration, troubleshooting, and project documentation, ensuring effective and reliable control solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

Power and data have been moved the same way for over 100 years.

This is a new day. At CelLink Corporation, our Team Members are designing, developing, and manufacturing flexible circuits that fundamentally change the transmission of power and data. Lower weight, higher performance, smaller mass, and lower overall system price all drive toward CelLink’s goal of a cleaner environment and more affordable technology.

At CelLink, we are electrified at the prospect of contributing to a technology that is and will be changing mobility for a cleaner and brighter future. We work with very dedicated people on challenging projects that change everyone’s future for the better. If you are eager to create, to learn, and to apply your knowledge, we are looking forward to you joining us on our electrifying mission.


Automation & Controls Engineer 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

  • Integrate controls and develop software for a wide range of hardware such as PLC, PC, and RC (robot controller) based equipment and automation control systems, motion controllers, machine vision systems, high resolution test, measurement, and data acquisition equipment, heater controllers, web handling and roll to roll system web velocity and tension, and web edge guiding and steering mechanisms, pneumatic actuators, encoders, force sensors, thermocouples, analog devices, and various location, distance, and material presence sensors.
  • Engage directly with new product design, process, equipment, quality, and manufacturing engineers to develop and modify controls and software that improve equipment useability and efficiency, product capability and performance, and process control data integrity.
  • Trouble-shoot equipment, including finding the root cause of failures and engineering solutions to correct them.
  • Provide timely and accurate project status, documentation, and training.
  • Develop and execute test plans to validate equipment functionality.
  • Develop and maintain equipment and automation controls and software-related technical documentation such as BOMs, schematics, functional specifications, design and test specifications, and standard operating procedures.
  • Develop, deploy, and maintain revision control of changes made on equipment where the hardware and software must be copied exactly.
  • Support controls engineering, standards compliance, assembly, modification, and documentation upkeep.
  • Work closely with equipment vendors throughout all phases of a project’s development on software and controls requirements and related issues.
  • Support factory expansion efforts, including supplier acceptance testing, equipment commissioning and process qualification.
  • Live the company culture of integrity, teamwork, self-discipline, and professional competence.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Experience/Education

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field. Software Engineering may be considered as a minor or a complementary specialization to one of the aforementioned majors.
  • 1 to 10 years of hands-on experience in Automation and Controls Engineering, or a similar field.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

  • Control system engineering and software development of complex process tools and automation primarily using Beckhoff TwinCAT, Mitsubishi, Siemens, and Omron PLCs in both structured text and ladder logic, Inductive Automation Ignition HMI and user interfaces, FANUC robotics, and Keyence cameras, code readers, and marking controllers.
  • Additionally, experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and programming using Python, C#, C++, SQL, or experience with machine vision programming using TensorFlow or MVTec HALCON is beneficial but not required.
  • Experience troubleshooting machine control systems and software.
  • Experience with electrical design and documentation, including creating BOMs and schematics using AutoCAD Electrical or comparable software tools.
  • Experience fabricating and wiring electrical control panels.
  • Experience programming real-time data acquisition for process control monitoring.
  • Experience programming MES systems is beneficial but not required.
  • Ability and willingness to work hands-on.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to influence others and collaboratively gain consensus using supportive data.
  • Must be a self-starter with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to work 100% onsite; this position is not eligible for remote work.
  • Ability to travel 10%.

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. 

Working Conditions/Hours:  

Salaried Exempt 

Physical Demands – Office and Manufacturing Environment  

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms pull/push, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. 

Work Environment –   

Includes both a typical office environment, with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues, and a shop environment, with exposure to high noise levels from operating machines, physical hazards from moving equipment and machine parts, nuisance dust, and skin exposure to chemicals used to run/maintain machines 

PPE- 

May be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including but not limited to safety glasses, safety shoes, bump-caps, gloves, hair nets, masks, & clean-room frocks while adhering to the prescribed safety procedures  


Compensation

$90K–$150K, with final salary determined by experience and level. We’re hiring for multiple positions and will align compensation accordingly.

CelLink California Privacy Policy

We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates are essential to our success. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees while building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an equal opportunity employer. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. CelLink participates in the E-Verify program in specific locations as required by law.

CelLink was founded in 2012 and entered volume production in 2018. CelLink provides electrical systems to the world's leading EV manufacturers, traditional automotive OEMs, and tiered suppliers. The company has raised approximately $315M in funding through private investment and multiple grants from the US Department of Energy. CelLink’s investors include 3M, Atreides, BMW, BorgWarner, Bosch, D1 Capital, Fidelity, Fontinalis Partners, Ford, Franklin Templeton, Lear, Park West, SK Telecom, Standard Investments, T. Rowe Price, Tinicum, and Whale Rock

Top Skills

Analog Devices
Beckhoff Plcs
C#
Encoders
Fanuc Equipment
Force Sensors
Heater Controllers
Machine Vision Systems
Manufacturing Execution Systems
Motion Controllers
Plcs
Pneumatic Actuators
Python
Scada Systems
SQL
Thermocouples
Web Edge Guiding
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The Company
Boston, MA
201 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

CELLINK is proud to be a part of BICO, the world’s leading bioconvergence company. By releasing the first universal bioink in 2016, CELLINK democratized the cost of entry for researchers around the world and played a major role in turning the then up-and-coming field of 3D bioprinting into a thriving $1 billion industry. The company’s best-in-class bioinks, bioprinters, software and services are trusted by the foremost academics in a range of applications, from 3D cell culturing to tissue engineering to drug development, and have been cited in over 700 publications. Furthermore, more than 1,000 laboratories, including ones at the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, are using these award-winning innovations. As part of BICO’s bioconvergence revolution, CELLINK is dedicated to making the on-demand bioprinting of human organs and tissues a future reality and creating the future of health.

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