About the Team: The Manufacturing team owns all process development, fabrication strategy, and production equipment for Terran R, our next generation, reusable rocket. This team has a wide variety of responsibilities - from factory floor layout, to developing complex tooling for novel processes, and interfacing with our vehicle engineering team to heavily influence design of the rocket. We leverage our deep expertise to translate engineering requirements into highly optimized production lines, working cross functionally to consistently enhance the vehicle program 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 * 25+ 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.