Sr Controls & Automation Engineer (Robotics)

Location: HQ - Atlanta, Georgia, United States; domestic travel required up to 25% annually.

Company

hirify.global provides commerce-enablement technology and high-volume fulfillment services, including fulfillment, warehousing, transportation, OMS, pre- and post-purchase, and WMS platforms.

What you will do

• Act as the lead technical authority for hirify.global Labs, a micro-fulfillment environment focused on logistics automation.
• Define control-system architecture and integration roadmaps connecting robotics with hirify.global's internal software ecosystem.
• Evaluate, install, prototype, and validate AMRs, robotic picking systems, goods-to-person solutions, and sortation automation.
• Lead integration across PLC, WCS, and WMS layers, including data and control-flow orchestration.
• Develop deployment frameworks, technical standards, code libraries, electrical schematics, troubleshooting guides, and as-built documentation.
• Run experiments, simulations, performance validation, and root cause analysis to determine reliability, operational impact, scalability, and ROI.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial automation, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in high-volume manufacturing or warehouse automation environments.
• Expert-level PLC programming with Allen-Bradley and Siemens, HMI development, and industrial networking using EtherNet/IP and Profinet.
• Experience owning multi-million-dollar automation projects from architecture through commissioning.
• Ability to document technical findings, experiments, and system learnings clearly.
• Ability to travel domestically 25% annually.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-density warehouse automation and robotics platforms, including AMRs, robotic picking, and goods-to-person systems.
• Experience in R&D or innovation lab environments running automation experiments.
• Familiarity with WMS, WES, and WCS architectures and their interaction with automation systems.
• Experience partnering with robotics OEMs or automation vendors in live pilot or production environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on experimentation in a dedicated 10,000-square-foot micro-fulfillment environment.
• Opportunity to evaluate emerging automation technologies under live operating conditions.
• Validated concepts are transitioned into production systems across high-volume distribution facilities.
• Work includes testing with both live and synthetic orders.