Remote Automotive Hardware Engineer Jobs in Florida

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This position reports to:

Senior Engineering Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

Senior Automation Engineer with expertise in industrial automation, control systems, OT networking, and cybersecurity. The ideal candidate will lead the design, implementation, commissioning, and support of PLC/HMI-based solutions, industrial networks, and secure control system architectures while ensuring compliance with applicable industry standards.

The work model for the role is: #LI-hybrid

This role is contributing to the Electrification Solutions-Digital Solutions in North America.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• PLC programming and automation development (ABB, Emerson, Allen-Bradley, Schneider).

• HMI design, control logic, alarming, trending, and system integration.

• Industrial communication protocols: Modbus, IEC 61850, OPC, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, and PROFINET.

• Control system architecture design including PLCs, HMIs, relays, controllers, and communication processors.

• Industrial networking expertise: Layer 2/3, VLANs, routing, switching, IP addressing, and redundancy (RSTP, PRP, HSR).

• Hands-on testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and network diagnostics (Wireshark, packet capture).

• OT cybersecurity and secure remote access solutions (VPNs, firewalls, IEC 62443 compliance).

• Strong knowledge of industry standards and hardware platforms (UL, IEEE, IEC; Cisco, Hirschmann, Moxa, Siemens).

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 5-8 years of industrial automation experience.

• Proficiency in PLC and HMI development using Emerson, ABB, Allen-Bradley, Schneider Electric, or similar platforms.

• Experience designing, programming, testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting automation systems, including FAT, SAT, startup, and customer site support.

• Strong knowledge of industrial communications and networking, including Modbus, IEC 61850, DNP3, OPC, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, Layer 2/3 networking, VLANs, routing, and switching.

• Experience with OT networking and cybersecurity, including managed switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, network diagnostics (Wireshark), and IEC 62443 principles.

• Knowledge of power automation systems, including protective relays, PLCs, HMIs, communication processors, generator controllers, and applicable UL, IEEE, and IEC standards.

• Strong technical, documentation, and collaboration skills, with the ability to develop engineering documentation, coordinate across disciplines, and support customers throughout project execution.

• Up to 30-35% travel.

• Open to sponsorship.

Why ABB?

What's in it for you:

We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

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ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.

• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus

• Vision benefit

• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)

• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)

• Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums

• Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid

• Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.

• Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance

• Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks

• Employee Assistance Program

• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption

• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions

• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

• ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

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Employment Type: FULL_TIME