Industrial Automation Engineer

You are the person who teaches factories and machines to run themselves. As an industrial automation engineer, you design, program, and maintain the systems that automate production, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), SCADA monitoring software, sensors, and industrial robots. Day to day, you might write control code, wire up equipment, troubleshoot a production line that has stopped, or redesign a process to make it faster and safer. You split your time between an office, where you plan and program, and the factory floor, where you test and fix things in the real world.