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Principal Test Architect – Industrial Automation & SCADA

Lake Forest, California, United States of America💼 Full-time💰 $130,500–$130,500🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own end-to-end test strategy and execution for Enterprise SCADA product stack (visualization, alarm, historization, device integration) in real-time industrial automation.

Role type

Principal Product Test Engineer (Industrial Automation)

Builds

Enterprise SCADA software stack for industrial automation and control systems.

Domain

Industrial Automation / SCADA / Real-time Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Test strategy design, scalability/performance/reliability testing, SCADA stack validation, industrial protocol testing (OPC UA, MQTT, CIP, S7), PLC/IoT device validation, root-cause analysis, Python scripting, AI tool application for testing, debugging tools (Wireshark, Perfmon), mentorship

Preferred skills

AVEVA System Platform experience, Linux/containerized deployments, performance profiling, memory analysis, network trace analysis

Technologies

Python, Wireshark, Debug Diag, Perfmon, OPC UA, MQTT, Allen Bradley CIP, Siemens S7, OMRON, CODESYS

Responsibilities

Design and execute scalability, performance, load, and endurance tests; validate new features across driver framework and platform components; reproduce and triage customer-reported issues; build and evolve automated test frameworks; apply AI tools to test authoring and failure analysis; provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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