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Automation Engineer

Thrive Foods American Fork, UT

American Fork, UT

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Full time Electrical Engineering Automation Automation Design

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Job Description

Thrive Foods is hiring an onsite Automation Engineer in American Fork, UT. This role supports a fast-paced manufacturing environment by designing, implementing, and maintaining industrial automation, control, and instrumentation systems. You will work end-to-end, from concept through commissioning, helping strengthen automation performance while supporting food safety expectations.

What you’ll do

Design and develop industrial automation systems, including PLC, HMI, and SCADA applications.
Program, test, and commission PLC/HMI control systems for new and existing equipment.
Design, construct, modify, and maintain control panel layouts and electrical schematics.
Develop and update P&IDs and instrumentation diagrams using CAD software.
Create Functional Design Specifications and Control Narratives.
Specify, integrate, and calibrate industrial sensors and measurement devices.
Troubleshoot automation hardware and instrumentation issues.
Ensure compliance with industry standards, safety regulations, and company policies.
Lead and manage automation initiatives across the project lifecycle from concept through commissioning.
Collaborate with engineering, maintenance, and production teams to improve automation and control processes.
Stay current with emerging automation technologies and best practices.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Required education and experience

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering, or related field.
Hands-on experience with PLC programming and HMI/SCADA development, with Ignition preferred.
Experience with commissioning activities, including I/O checks and sequence testing.
Familiarity with motor controls, PID loops, VFDs, sensors, and industrial instrumentation.
Ability to read, redline, and update electrical schematics, P&IDs, and technical documentation.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
Ability to travel up to 40% to company and supplier sites across North America.

Preferred qualifications

2+ years of relative experience.
Proficiency with electrical design tools such as AutoCAD Electrical or EPLAN.
Experience designing and constructing control panels using applicable design standards.
Strong knowledge of industrial communication protocols such as Modbus and Ethernet/IP.
Understanding of database integration including SQL, MES, or data historians.
Experience with controls for utilities systems, such as steam and refrigeration.

Technologies you’ll work with

PLC, HMI, SCADA
Ignition
CAD software (AutoCAD Electrical, EPLAN)
Modbus, Ethernet/IP
SQL, MES, data historians

Food safety expectations

Place high priority on food safety, quality, and sanitation by understanding and executing Thrive Freeze Dry’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures. Hold self and others accountable by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates.

Physical requirements

Consistent and reliable attendance.
Some lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling; some stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling; frequent fine finger dexterity.
Generally requires physical activity time including 50% or more sitting, 50% or more walking, and 50% or more standing.
Work performed under some temperature variations in a food manufacturing production environment.
Unrestricted visual and audio abilities required for the safety of all employees.
Ability to lift up to 40 lbs.

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1mo ago

Founding AI Engineer

David Joseph & Company San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, CA

1mo ago Closed

$175k - $220k/yr Full time Agentic Ai Ai Agent Ai Engineer

This position is no longer accepting applications (closed Oct 23, 2026).

Job Description

This founding AI engineering role supports a seed-stage team building AI agents that operate as IT technicians for small and midsize businesses. You will collaborate closely with the founders to deliver agent capabilities, scale the underlying infrastructure, and ship customer-facing functionality.

Role & Scope

You will help build AI agents that investigate and resolve IT support tickets in real customer environments. Work spans distributed infrastructure, agent architecture, and integrations across the product surface area, informed by direct customer feedback.

Responsibilities

Build and improve AI agents that investigate and resolve IT support tickets across live customer environments
Scale infrastructure and distributed systems to match customer growth while maintaining reliability
Ship across the full surface area from frontend to backend to integrations, guided by feedback from customers
Work day to day with the founders on a fast-moving roadmap
Optional: Spend time with customers to understand their problems and influence product direction

Requirements

Two to five years building software across the full stack
A track record of shipping production systems and maintaining them at a scale of roughly fifty customers or more
Practical command of LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agent architectures
A founding-engineer disposition, including shipping side projects and readiness for the pace and commitment of an early team
Clear communication, the ability to simplify complex problems, and prioritization and decisiveness on what matters first

Technologies

LLM APIs

Compensation & Benefits

$175,000 to $220,000 per year + competitive early-stage equity
Seed funding from a respected venture firm; founders with backgrounds in frontier AI research and high-growth enterprise software
A genuine founding-engineer seat to shape product and engineering culture, not only handle tickets
A large, largely untouched market with signed customers and adoption already running ahead of expectations
Agentic systems at the core of the product rather than added on top of an existing workflow

Nice to Have

AI agents or tool-using LLM systems you have run in production, not just prototyped
Experience at an early-stage startup, such as between seed and Series C
Exposure to enterprise IT, security, or identity management
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a comparable technical field
Depth in distributed systems and backend infrastructure
Comfort owning front-end product work alongside backend and platform layers

Role Details

Location: San Francisco, CA (on-site)
Work policy: On-site, 5 days per week
Employment type: Full-time
Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (for example OPT or H-1B transfers)

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