Job Description

As a Software Engineer for Rockwell Automation, you will have the opportunity to design and develop industry-leading commercial software known for its innovation and usability.  You will also be responsible for performing intermediate level software testing tasks including, but not limited to, test development, planning, scheduling, and execution.

In this position, you will be a key player in subsystem design, implementation, and testing. You will play an active role in all the stages of the development lifecycle and support your team throughout the process. You will also help ensure that developed products meet requirements and are within total quality management standards.  This position will allow you to collaborate with multiple global cross-functional teams and may also require you to be the technical lead of a small-scale feature or portion of a feature.

We are looking for someone who will effectively leverage a diverse set of technical backgrounds and opinions by fostering a team-oriented environment and the use of open and direct communications, honesty and respect. The ideal candidate will also actively seek knowledge of new developments in the software engineering, computer engineering, and test automation fields and will identify and pursue career development and training opportunities.

Essential Functions

• Design new subsystem designs under the guidance of senior engineers, and able to implement the design independently.
• Participate in and contribute to the establishment of project timeline and the estimation of resources needed to execute a design.
• Implements and documents code that meets the requirements of the software design, develops and executes thorough unit test plans.
• Reports, analyzes, debugs and corrects anomalies, determines the origin and root cause of anomalies identified.
• Participates in reviews of documents, designs, code, test cases and user documentation.
• Builds relationships and interacts with peers to ensure assigned tasks are prioritized appropriately.
• Thinks outside the box and is willing to research and explore new avenues to overcome obstacles by utilizing the latest technologies and standards.
• Clearly communicates and conveys design concepts, both verbally and in writing.
• Able to learn and understand complex control system concepts.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• Typically requires a minimum of two years of experience in a software product development environment
• Direct experience with developing web-services (REST or GraphQL) using Java or Kotlin

Desired Qualifications

• Strong interests in language compiler and related technologies
• Knowledge on object-oriented design principles and common design patterns
• Direct experience with Agile software development process
• Proven application of data structures and algorithms
• Able to apply basic knowledge of testing cloud-based software products
• Direct experience with the Industrial Automation industry
• Direct experience collaborating with local and global technical development teams
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills