Senior Software Engineer

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 25,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Position Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer for Rockwell Automation, you will have the opportunity to design and develop industry-leading commercial software known for its innovation and usability.

In this position, you will be a key player in subsystem design, implementation, and developer 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.

When you join our software engineering group, you become part of a team that believes in knowledge sharing and collaboration and that is committed to using reliable and well-thought-out engineering practices and technology to overcome any challenges.

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:

• Collects, contributes to and documents requirements for a feature and its components, ensuring the information required for the development of software and corresponding test cases are contained in the specifications.
• Develops new subsystem designs or contributes to existing ones ensuring they meet the established requirements.
• Establishes a timeline and determines the resources needed to execute a design. Considers tradeoffs between requirements, speed, cost, and reliability in the choice of a design approach. Provides progress reports, as needed.
• Implements and documents code that meets the requirements of the software design.
• Develops and executes thorough unit test plans. Reports, analyzes, troubleshoots, and resolves anomalies. Takes the lead in the integration of other components by solving problems within and across subsystems to produce a final product.
• Leads or participates in reviews of documents, designs, code, test cases, and user documentation.
• Estimates, plans, develops, and executes test suites, test cases and automated tests to ensure appropriate functional test coverage is attained.
• Determines the origin and root cause of anomalies identified.
• Responsible for the maintenance and integrity of one or more software subsystems.
• Builds relationships and interacts with peers to ensure assigned tasks are prioritized appropriately.
• Takes the lead on identifying and recommending software development capability improvements in the areas of software development practices, and development tools.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Typically requires a minimum of five years of experience in a software product development environment
• Proven application of data structures and algorithms
• Able to apply basic knowledge of object-oriented designs
• Basic understanding of design patterns
• Direct experience with C++, C#, or other relevant programming languages
• Direct experience with the Industrial Automation industry
• Basic understanding of Jenkins, Artifactory, GitLab, Make and Build systems
• Basic understanding of Scripting languages like Python, Ruby, PowerShell, and JavaScript
• Basic understanding of architecting modular software
• Able to apply basic knowledge of testing highly integrated software products
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor.
• The Base salary compensation range for this role is 105,520.00 - 158,280.00 USD Annual, with an annual target bonus of 5% of base salary. Our company benefits for the US can be found here. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education and experience.

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