• Equipment Automation Engineer

    Development Resource Group, Inc. (North Saint Paul, MN)


    ### Job Duties

    We’re hiring a C#/.NET software engineer to accelerate development of our AMP robotic software platform and no-code visual programming environment.

     

    A key focus of this contract is building reusable software modules for hardware devices and UI components for visual programming IDE used in manufacturing equipment automation.

     

    What you’ll do -

    Software framework / application development

    • Build production-ready adapter/driver software components for integrating motion controllers, I/O, sensors, machine vision, and robots.

    • Use industrial protocols (TCP/UDP, Ethernet/IP, Modbus, serial) to communicate with hardware devices.

    • Develop a common application with a focus on factory-ready GUI/HMI.

    • Provide configuration and diagnostics tools for factory deployment.

    • Author unit/integration tests.

    • Participate in software design and code reviews.

    • Test software in simulation and hardware.

    • Implement dependency injection patterns across host and plugin assemblies.

    • Contribute clear documents and developer guides.

    • Collaborate with a team of mechanical, software, controls, and process engineers.

    No-code visual programming

    • Enhance the node-graph editor UX for a no-code visual programming IDE.

    • Create visual programming blocks for supporting manufacturing processes.

    • Advance code generation (Roslyn/source generators) and runtime loading.

     

    ### Minimum Education Required

    Bachelors Degree

     

    ### Minimum Experience Required

    Minimum qualifications

    • 5+ years professional C#/.NET building production systems.

    • Proficient with WPF/WinUI/MAUI or similar for tooling UIs (custom controls, MVVM).

    • Experience with plugin/host architectures (dynamic loading, versioning, API stability).

    • Experience building and integrating software for hardware devices used in manufacturing automation.

    • Testing mindset: xUnit/NUnit, fakes/mocks for hardware, software testing in lab environment.

    • Git (GitLab/GitHub), CI

    • Excellent communication and documentation skills.

    Desired domain experience

    • Equipment automation for manufacturing.

    • Delivered software for factory/robotic equipment automation (semiconductor, electronics, medical devices, general industrial).

    • Experience in machine vision (Cognex VisionPro is a plus).

    • ML/DL experience is desirable.

    • Roslyn/code generation or source-generator experience is a plus.

    • Integration with MES, manufacturing process recipe and equipment parameter management, alarms/events, run/stop/ESTOP handling.

    • Familiarity with state machines, SEMI (SECS/GEM) standards, ISA-95 concepts.

     

    ### Shift

    First (Day)

     

    ### Number of Openings

    1

     

    ### Public Transportation Accessible

    Yes

     

    ### Veterans Encouraged to Apply

    Yes

     

    ### Physical Required

    No

     

    ### Drug Test Required

    No

    ### Compensation

    $85,000.00 - $125,000.00 / Annually

     

    ### Postal Code

    55112

     

    ### Place of Work

     

    On-site

     

    ### Requisition ID

     

    6687

     

    ### Job Type

     

    Full Time

     

    ### Job Benefits

     

    Health Insurance, Life Insurance, 401k

    ### Application Instructions

    If interested and qualified, please submit your resume to [email protected] or visit our website to apply: http://dr-group.com/find-engineering-technical-jobs/