Manufacturing Controls Engineer

Job Title: Manufacturing Controls Engineer Location: Fremont, CA (Day-1 Onsite) Contract: 10 Months As a Manufacturing Controls Engineer, you'll play a key role in sustaining, improving, and developing advanced automation systems that assemble and validate next-generation products. This role demands strong PLC and controls fundamentals, hands-on debugging skills, and a drive to push process efficiency in a high-complexity, high-precision environment. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, acts autonomously, and has a deep technical understanding of automation that supports electro-mechanical assemblies. Lead controls engineering activities across assembly and end-of-line validation Develop and sustain PLC and HMI programs (Siemens TIA Portal or Beckhoff TwinCAT) that ensure high equipment uptime, safety compliance, and operator efficiency Collaborate with test and equipment engineering to integrate new test sequences, data interfaces, and product change requirements into existing au...