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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Application Engineer - **Company:** Rockwell Automation, Inc. - **Location:** Mayfield Heights, OH, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Integration Architecture, Computer Vision, Computer Engineering, Ethernet, Rslogix, OPC Unified Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, GitHub Copilot, Industrial Software - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://rockwellautomation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Rockwell_Automation/job/Mayfield-Heights-Ohio-United-States/Application-Engineer_R26-7282 ## About the Role * Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Years of Relevant Work Experience. * Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. The Preferred - You Might Also Have: * Typically requires 5+ years of related experience in controls engineering or industrial software. * Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline. * Depth in Studio 5000 Logix Designer and Logix controllers, including Add-On Instruction design. * Experience with industrial protocols - EtherNet/IP, OPC UA, and equivalent fieldbus interfaces. * Experience building reference architectures or reusable libraries that other integrators adopt. * Machine vision or inspection integration experience in a production environment. * Experience working alongside a software product team rather than only in a systems integration model. * Comfort supporting customers and integrators on escalated technical issues. * Experience architecting and implementing PLC control code for production machinery * Experience defining integration interfaces between a controller and an external system ## Description Rockwell Automation is building machine vision and visual inspection into the Automation Control Software portfolio. You will own the controls side of it - the PLC architecture, the Add-On Instructions, and the interface that lets a Logix controller talk to an inspection system as a first-class part of the machine rather than a bolt-on. This work already lives in Studio 5000 Logix Designer. You will own where it goes next: the integration patterns, the reference architecture customers and system integrators build against, and the custom controls integrations that hard applications require. You will work in an AI-first engineering environment - coding agents in the inner loop, hardware- and simulation-in-the-loop evals gating any AI-generated change before it reaches a controller, GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Claude in daily use, and MCP-based tooling that reaches real build and test systems under human-in-the-loop review. Controls code is where those gates have to be hardest, and you will define what they are for this interface. This role will have a remote schedule and will report to the Director, Software Engineering. Your Responsibilities: * Own the PLC-side architecture and implementation for vision and inspection integration, including Add-On Instructions and the controller interface definition. * Define and maintain the reference integration architecture that customers and system integrators build against. * Build custom controls integrations for applications the standard interface does not cover. * Own the controls interface contract between the inspection system and Studio 5000 Logix Designer, including timing and determinism requirements. * Provide deep technical support for controls integration issues escalated from the field. * Partner with edge and product engineering so controls constraints shape the product rather than get discovered late. * Define the review and validation gates for AI-assisted change to controls code. ## Related Videos - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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