Vital Lyfe is redefining water access with aerospace-grade purification technology. Freedom from infrastructure, built for movement, built for life without limits. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
Design, develop, commission, and manage automation and controls projects for manufacturing, product testing, reliability testing, and end-of-line validation. Help define Vital Lyfe’s controls strategy, including what PLC, HMI, SCADA, data acquisition, fieldbus, and factory software systems we should standardize on as we scale.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, computer science, or a related technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience in industrial automation, factory automation, automated test systems, or controls system design and implementation
- Comfort working in ambiguity and making tradeoffs with incomplete information
- Bias toward action, ownership, and practical engineering solutions
- Ability to help select the right automation architecture, controls platform, and factory software tools for a fast-moving manufacturing environment
- Experience with electromechanical systems, automated test stands, manufacturing equipment, reliability rigs, or end-of-line test systems
More about this role
Vital Lyfe is a tech company redefining water autonomy through innovation, creating a new category of personal water making technology built to scale where infrastructure can’t.
Design, develop, commission, and manage automation and controls projects for manufacturing, product testing, reliability testing, and end-of-line validation.
Help define Vital Lyfe’s controls strategy, including what PLC, HMI, SCADA, data acquisition, fieldbus, and factory software systems we should standardize on as we scale.
Architect, write, and debug PLC and controls code that is organized, documented, maintainable, reusable, and appropriate for high-volume manufacturing.
Design and commission automated equipment and test systems involving pumps, motors, valves, sensors, pressure, flow, thermal systems, and electrical instrumentation.
Keep our factory safe and reliable by implementing compliant safety systems for automated equipment, motion systems, pressure systems, and electro-mechanical assemblies.
Generate simple HMI screens, electrical designs, documentation, schedules, and budgets that help teams operate, troubleshoot, and scale factory systems.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, computer...
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