Design Automation Engineer
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Overview
Remote
On-site
Compensation
$80,000-$95,000/year
Job Description
Title: Design Automation EngineerLocation: Huntley, IL (Onsite)Hire Type: Direct HireCompensation: 80K - 95KBenefits: Health, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO
Must have Skill Set:
- Must have proven experience with SolidWorks design, modeling, and product development
- Hands-on experience developing product configurators using DriveWorks (or comparable configuration automation tools)
- Strong experience with SQL databases, including SQL queries, schema design, and data modeling
- Proven experience in programming experience in Python and/or JavaScript
- Must have proven ability to work in design automation and system integration environments within manufacturing or engineering operations
- Fully competent in CAD-driven product configuration workflows and engineering data structures
Overview:
The Design Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining advanced automated product configurators that drive engineering efficiency and product customization. This role requires a highly technical engineer with proven experience in SolidWorks, DriveWorks, SQL, and programming (Python and/or JavaScript) to build and support rules-based configuration systems used across engineering and business platforms. This position plays a critical role in enabling scalable product design automation, integrating configurator systems with enterprise platforms such as ERP, CRM, and e-commerce systems, and ensuring highly reliable, data-driven engineering workflows. The ideal candidate is a hands-on automation engineer with proven ability to build, test, debug, and deploy configuration systems in a manufacturing environment.
Job Duties:
- Develop and maintain rules-based product configurators using DriveWorks, ensuring scalable automation across multiple product families
- Design and implement consistent, modern configurator user interfaces (UX) aligned with standardized engineering and product configuration requirements
- Build and maintain automation logic and configuration rules for complex engineering product structures
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve configuration failures and system errors with urgency and precision
- Design, develop, and maintain SQL databases supporting product configuration systems and engineering data workflows
- Integrate configurator systems with ERP, CRM, and e-commerce platforms, ensuring accurate data transfer and system synchronization
- Collaborate with engineering, software, and business teams to translate requirements into technical configuration specifications
- Develop and maintain data transfer tables and system interfaces connecting engineering sizing tools and configurator systems
- Create and maintain technical documentation including configuration logic, data maps, and development guides (e.g., Confluence, draw.io)
- Support testing, validation, and deployment of all configurator systems prior to release, ensuring fully verified outputs and system reliability
- Maintain version control, change management, and structured release processes
- Monitor system performance using observability tools (e.g., Grafana) and apply data-driven diagnostics using metrics, logs, events, and traces (MELT methodology)
- Continuously improve configurator functionality, scalability, and performance through automation enhancements and system updates
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
- Proven experience in SolidWorks design, modeling, and engineering workflows
- Demonstrated experience building or supporting product configurators (DriveWorks strongly preferred)
- Strong SQL development experience including queries, schema design, and relational database modeling
- Programming experience in Python and/or JavaScript with ability to build automation and integration logic
- Proven experience with design automation, CAD-to-configurator workflows, or manufacturing system integration
- Experience using version control systems and engineering change management tools (GitHub, PDM, or equivalent)
- Strong ability to troubleshoot complex configuration and system integration issues in real time
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience integrating configurators with ERP, CRM, and e-commerce systems
- Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and frontend configuration interfaces
- Experience working with observability, monitoring, or system performance analytics tools (e.g., Grafana)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to engineering and data accuracy
- Ability to manage multiple technical priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment
- Self-starter mindset with a strong focus on process automation, system efficiency, and continuous improvement
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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