Vital Lyfe

Vital Lyfe

Automation and Controls Engineer

Los Angeles - Greater Area

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 78 days ago
SQLEMI/EMCPLCCommunicationOSHASCADA

About the role

  • About Vital Lyfe Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation, creating a new category of personal water making technology built to scale where infrastructure can't.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, commission, and manage automation and controls projects for manufacturing, product testing, reliability testing, and end-of-line validation.
  • Design and commission automated equipment and test systems involving pumps, motors, valves, sensors, pressure, flow, thermal systems, and electrical instrumentation.
  • Generate simple HMI screens, electrical designs, documentation, schedules, and budgets that help teams operate, troubleshoot, and scale factory systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, computer science, or a related technical discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in industrial automation, factory automation, automated test systems, or controls system design and implementation.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity and making tradeoffs with incomplete information.

Nice to have

  • Ability to help select the right automation architecture, controls platform, and factory software tools for a fast-moving manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with electromechanical systems, automated test stands, manufacturing equipment, reliability rigs, or end-of-line test systems.
  • Hands-on troubleshooting experience using tools such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, EMI probes, and industrial network diagnostic tools.
  • Proficiency understanding and creating electrical schematics, panel layouts, wiring diagrams, I/O lists, and single-line diagrams.
  • Experience with fieldbus networks, serial communication, Ethernet communication, and industrial protocols such as EtherCAT, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, Modbus, or CAN.
  • Hands-on experience designing and commissioning high-quality electrical panels and electro-mechanical systems.
  • Knowledge of NEC, NFPA, OSHA, UL508A, and related control system safety standards.
  • PLC programming experience

Company info

  • About Vital Lyfe
  • Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation, creating a new category of personal water making technology built to scale where infrastructure can't.
  • What We're Looking For

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