Automation Engineer PWT

About Lucid Motors Middle East

Lucid Motors is dedicated to creating advanced mobility experiences through innovation, driving the world forward. The company's vehicles are built on proprietary technology and a software-defined architecture, reflecting a "Compromise Nothing™" approach to the global automotive market. This involves integrating performance with sustainability, and design with engineering. Lucid achieves this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production managed in-house across global offices and manufacturing facilities.

Position Overview: Automation Engineer PWT

Lucid Motors Middle East is seeking an Automation Engineer PWT for an internship position in Saudi Arabia. This is a hands-on technical contributor role responsible for developing, commissioning, sustaining, and improving various automation systems across AMP-2 Drive Unit and HV Battery assembly. The role supports equipment acceptance from FAT/SAT through Safe Launch, volume ramp, and stable production, ensuring compliance with Lucid controls and production system standards, functional safety, OT cybersecurity, and change-control protocols. The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and sustain PLC programs, function blocks/AOIs, data structures, and interfaces for DU and HV Battery equipment using approved coding, tag, alarm, diagnostic, and documentation standards.
• Manage all software changes through backup, impact/risk assessment, peer review, approval, validation, revision history, rollback readiness, and post-change archiving.
• Troubleshoot PLC, I/O, sequencing, interlock, electrical, network, and safety-circuit faults; complete RCA, permanent corrective action, and maintain current backups/drawings/change records.
• Execute controls FAT/SAT covering I/O, sequence logic, permissive, interlocks, alarms, recovery/restart, safety functions, cycle performance, and data interfaces; review supplier controls deliverables against AMP-2 specifications.
• Develop HMI/SCADA screens, alarms, events, diagnostics, equipment states, recovery guidance, and historian tags to improve troubleshooting and MTTR.
• Integrate PLCs with MES/APM/LMIS using approved tags, OPC-UA, handshakes, and messaging; validate machine states, counts, rejects, quality results, downtime, serial transactions, genealogy, and end-to-end traceability.
• Configure and troubleshoot EtherNet/IP, managed switches, addressing, and field-device communications, adhering to OT cybersecurity protocols.
• Deploy and troubleshoot vision systems (*, Cognex, Keyence) for inspection, orientation, label verification, error-proofing, and traceability; support FANUC Robots cells at PLC/I/O, handshake, safety, recovery, and cycle level.
• Commission and troubleshoot VFDs, servos, encoders, positioning/homing, actuators, and controls interfaces for various manufacturing processes.
• Support safety PLC changes and validation under ISO 13849/IEC 62061 governance; comply with SASO, applicable Saudi labor requirements, IEC 60204, machine/stored-energy LOTO, electrical safe work, HV LOTO/HVIL, and PPE.
• Provide controls support from commissioning through sustaining production; analyze downtime, repeat stops, nuisance alarms, cycle loss, communication faults, and recovery delay, then verify permanent countermeasures.
• Deliver structured OJT, practical assessment, competency progression, training material, troubleshooting guides, matrices, and training plans for Saudi engineers/technicians.

Qualifications and Experience

• 3-5 years of experience in automation engineering or a related field.
• Proficiency in PLC programming, HMI/SCADA/Ignition systems, industrial networks, vision systems, robotics interfaces, and motion control.
• Experience with MES/APM integration.
• Knowledge of functional safety, OT cybersecurity, and change-control standards.
• Ability to conduct FAT/SAT and manage equipment acceptance processes.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for electrical, network, and safety-circuit faults.
• Familiarity with ISO 13849/IEC 62061 governance and relevant Saudi compliance standards.

Work Environment and Collaboration

This role involves working in a dynamic manufacturing environment, supporting production from commissioning through sustaining operations. The Automation Engineer will collaborate with various teams including Production, Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, EHS, IT/OT, MES, suppliers, and global technical teams. A key aspect of the role is accountability for controls reliability, traceability, fault recovery, uptime, and capability transfer to Saudi engineers and technicians, contributing to Saudization initiatives.