Automation & Controls Engineer (SCADA)

Location: Torrance, California, United States; 100% onsite in an office and factory environment with minimal travel and work near moving mechanical parts.

Salary: $105,980–$194,390 USD per year, depending on level: Engineer I $105,980–$145,730; Engineer II $122,430–$168,340; Senior Engineer $141,380–$194,390.

Company

Divergent develops and manufactures advanced systems through an integrated engineering and manufacturing platform for automotive, aerospace, and defense customers.

What you will do

• Own, develop, and maintain the Ignition SCADA platform for factory, facility, and equipment data and telemetry.
• Design and deploy SCADA applications, operator interfaces, dashboards, trends, alarms, and reporting tools.
• Integrate PLCs, manufacturing equipment, facility systems, and other industrial data sources into a reliable, scalable factory data architecture.
• Establish data structures, tag standards, naming conventions, and interfaces for accessible operational data.
• Support SCADA reliability and performance by troubleshooting communications, data quality, and application issues.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, facilities, automation, IT, and technical teams, and contribute to automation controls development and commissioning for new DAPS factory modules and R&D systems.

Requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a relevant discipline, or relevant automation and controls experience.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Inductive Automation Ignition, including Perspective, Gateway administration, tags, scripting, and alarming.
• Experience integrating industrial equipment and facility systems using OPC UA, MQTT/Sparkplug B, or other industrial communications protocols.
• Experience with industrial databases, SQL, historians, reporting, and operational dashboards.
• Knowledge of industrial networking, connectivity, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with software engineering practices, Git, testing, and maintainable code.
• PLC programming experience using IEC 61131-3 languages; Beckhoff TwinCAT experience is a plus.
• Exposure to industrial automation hardware, fieldbus interfaces, and motion control.
• Experience with industrial robotics, controls commissioning, or R&D systems.
• Familiarity with EPLAN or AutoCAD Electrical, NEC/NFPA 79/UL 508A standards, and industrial safety principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Office and factory-based work in a collaborative, dynamic, high-performing, mission-driven environment.
• Competitive salary with equity plan and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
• HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives.