<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Automation Engineer</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335551550":2,"335551620":2}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Location: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Burlingame, CA (some remote work acceptable)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Reports to: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Head of Automation</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the Company</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Peak Energy is an American venture setting the standard in low-cost, giga-scale storage for the new era of clean, affordable, and reliable energy. </span><span data-contrast="auto">Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling giga-watt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, SunPower, Fluence, and Enovix. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners TDK, ATL, Eclipse Ventures, and Doral Energy. </span> </p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Pioneering US-based vertical integration of Sodium-Ion Battery Energy Storage in partnership with leading Independent Power Producers and utilities. </span><span data-contrast="auto">We are a team of engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, and partners driven by a shared ambition to set the performance standard for renewable energy and grid resilience.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the Job</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Peak Energy is looking for an experienced Automation Engineer to help build and run the automation behind a new generation of Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) manufacturing. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of control systems and automation solutions that ensure the efficiency, safety, and quality of our BESS products, and will use AI as a force multiplier to do it.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This is a rare opportunity to shape how a modern factory is automated. Peak is embracing AI and large language models (LLMs) to automate automation: generating and updating PLC and HMI code, eliminating mundane programming, and assessing faults and stops through smart machine monitoring. You will help Peak push AI enablement well beyond Controls Engineering into adjacent disciplines such as electrical panel design, and you will bring the experience to know when AI is implementing correctly and when it needs monitoring.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Drive AI-assisted controls development: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Apply AI and LLM-based tools to generate, refactor, document, and update PLC (IEC 61131-3 / Beckhoff TwinCAT) and HMI code, and automate repetitive, mundane programming tasks to shorten development and commissioning cycles.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Connect AI to the control layer: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Integrate AI agents and LLM tooling with PLC and HMI environments, enabling them to read from and make controlled changes to PLC programs and HMI projects through secure, version-controlled, auditable workflows (source control, code review, and staged deployment).</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Enable smart machine monitoring and troubleshooting: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Troubleshoot control system issues and perform routine maintenance, using AI-driven analysis of PLC, HMI, and machine data to detect faults, assess problems and stops, and identify root causes faster, reducing downtime and driving continuous improvement.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"