Top Automation Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead enterprise automation and agentic AI initiatives, owning the automation and integration stack and Center of Excellence. Build secure, reusable workflows and integration frameworks using platforms such as Zapier, Claude, and Glean. Establish governance, standards, documentation, and prioritization practices while partnering with IT, innovation teams, engineers, business stakeholders, and executives. Identify operational inefficiencies, develop automation roadmaps, and deliver scalable systems with secure data handling, access controls, human oversight, and measurable business impact.

Design, build, program, integrate, and deploy robotic manufacturing cells for high-voltage pulsed-power hardware. Responsibilities include robot selection, end-effector and fixture design, machine vision and sensor integration, PLC and motion-control integration, safety architecture, automated assembly and inspection, maintenance practices, and production-line development. The role partners with mechanical and electrical engineers, supports design for automated assembly, and helps grow the robotics team in a fully onsite startup environment.

Build and maintain internal engineering tools and integrations across Jira, GitHub, Ketryx, and testing systems. Develop Python and shell scripts, automate compliance documentation and traceability artifacts, troubleshoot CI/CD and API integration failures, optimize development environments, and support software quality and regulatory compliance for medical-device software.

Build and deploy secure business automations and integrations across SaaS tools, internal systems, and APIs. Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact workflow improvements, apply AI and agentic patterns where appropriate, and establish scalable engineering practices for documentation, testing, access controls, secrets management, logging, and maintenance. The role also helps shape automation infrastructure and team standards while collaborating with security and IT leadership.

Develop, support, troubleshoot, and improve automated laboratory workflows using liquid handlers and related instrumentation. Translate manual protocols into reliable automated methods, provide technical support, coordinate maintenance and vendors, document procedures, and improve system reliability and throughput. Collaborate with scientists, laboratory users, vendors, and engineering teams while developing programming and automation expertise.

Provides technical leadership for automated testing and verification across autonomy software, machine learning systems, distributed services, simulation environments, hardware-in-the-loop platforms, and GPU infrastructure. Owns test architecture, MLOps quality, CI/CD and continuous training workflows, ML validation, observability, failure triage, scenario-based testing, and scalable Python automation. Collaborates across software, autonomy, data, simulation, and systems engineering teams while governing AI-assisted testing workflows.

Own quality and automation for enterprise SaaS and PaaS deployments. Build agentic workflows for bug triage, reproduction, routing, and resolution; improve automated testing, CI quality gates, environment parity, and release confidence. Collaborate directly with enterprise customers, communicate quality trends, run bug bashes, create evaluation datasets, and ship code fixes. Senior and staff scopes may include setting organization-wide quality strategy, mentoring engineers, and defining automation standards.

Develop and maintain automated RF test procedures and production-quality software frameworks. Interface with RF instrumentation, acquire and process test data, troubleshoot software, hardware, and test setup issues, and improve test coverage, repeatability, and throughput. Collaborate with RF, manufacturing, test, and product engineers while documenting methods and results and supporting customer demonstrations.

Own the managed services tooling ecosystem, building API, webhook, and email integrations across RMM, monitoring, backup, and ITSM platforms. Configure Jira Service Management, reduce alert noise, troubleshoot tooling failures, establish integration standards, evaluate new tools, and ensure customer-specific rollouts. Produce operational reporting, explain tooling to customers, and maintain auditable documentation within ITIL-aligned change management processes.

Design, develop, optimize, and integrate semiconductor-grade equipment and automation systems for diamond wafer production. Collaborate with vendors, manufacturing teams, and process engineers to improve throughput, efficiency, and reliability. Create equipment documentation and troubleshooting procedures while performing hands-on fabrication, assembly, tolerance analysis, and equipment development.

Design, implement, and operate CI/CD pipelines for mobile and backend services; maintain build/test/release processes with quality gates and artifact management; configure non-production environments; support release preparation and deployment coordination; integrate monitoring/logging and improve automation, performance, and reliability of delivery pipelines.

Designs, develops, deploys, and supports automation solutions, scripts, API integrations, and workflows for Technology operations. Maintains production automations, troubleshoots failures, manages integrations and credentials, documents solutions, and supports technology projects, acquisitions, migrations, and onboarding. Partners with Technology teams to analyze processes, prioritize automation opportunities, develop technical designs, establish governance standards, and improve operational efficiency through scalable automation, reporting, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Designs, builds, integrates, programs, qualifies, and supports scalable laboratory automation workcells for biologics discovery. Partners with scientific, IT, and informatics teams to translate protein therapeutics workflows into high-throughput automated methods. Leads troubleshooting, root cause analysis, documentation, training, technology evaluation, data capture improvements, and compliance activities. The role supports antibody discovery, biologics engineering, protein sciences, and molecular assessment programs.

Design and deploy automation systems for high-volume optical transceiver manufacturing, including AI-based machine vision, robotics, motion control, testing, packaging, and process integration. Lead automation from concept through qualification and production ramp, resolve equipment issues, improve yield and throughput, collaborate with vendors and engineering teams, and develop documentation, validation protocols, and capital equipment justifications.

Design and maintain automated testing frameworks for web, iOS, and Android fitness applications. Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, build API coverage, test GPS and location features through simulation and sensor mocking, and use AI tools to improve QA workflows. Perform targeted exploratory testing, document defects, collaborate cross-functionally, estimate QA work, and advocate for quality throughout development.

Develop and maintain enterprise Ansible automation, infrastructure-as-code solutions, REST APIs, scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and integrations across complex infrastructure environments. Manage automation projects through the full software development lifecycle, support production systems, document solutions, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, and service teams. The role requires secure coding, Agile delivery, on-call participation, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for Public Trust clearance.

Lead QA strategy and scalable test automation for cybersecurity web applications using Playwright and JavaScript. Build and maintain reliable automated testing frameworks, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, establish quality gates, diagnose failures, and support security testing. Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and improve testing practices, coverage, reliability, and release quality across multiple products.

Research and reverse-engineer web anti-automation systems, including browser detection, challenge flows, fingerprinting, and obfuscated JavaScript. Build and deploy browser automation, diagnostic, and monitoring infrastructure that improves scraping reliability across a large crawling fleet. Measure scrape success, investigate regressions, and ship production fixes quickly while collaborating with platform engineers.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated software testing frameworks for embedded and real-time medical device systems. Develops Python and Shell/Bash test automation, integrates testing with continuous integration workflows, executes functional and risk-based testing, investigates failures, documents defects, and supports FDA-regulated verification and validation. Collaborates with software, systems, electrical, and quality teams, performs code reviews, improves test infrastructure, and mentors engineers.

Plan, execute and automate functional, regression and integration tests for mobile (iOS/Android) and backend services. Create and maintain test plans, cases and data; log and track defects; support UAT, performance and stability checks; collaborate with developers, DevOps and architects; integrate automated tests into CI pipelines and validate release readiness across environments and physical devices.

Leads the architecture, integration, qualification, and production scaling of automation systems for precision electro-optical manufacturing. Responsibilities include machine vision, AI-based inspection, robotics, motion control, automated testing and packaging, root-cause analysis, equipment selection, documentation, capacity planning, and continuous improvement. The role serves as a senior technical authority, mentors automation engineers, leads design reviews, and collaborates with product, process, test, manufacturing, and external supplier teams.

Own the technical direction and delivery of Benchling’s internal tools and automation portfolio. Build production systems, SaaS integrations, workflow orchestration, CI/CD, and secure enterprise infrastructure. Partner with internal teams to identify automation opportunities, graduate prototypes into reliable systems, support production operations, enable non-engineering builders, and establish engineering standards. The role also includes technical hiring, mentoring, architecture, threat modeling, and selective application of LLMs and agentic workflows.

Own the conversion of manual regression suites into automated tests for CAD-based desktop and Revit-integrated applications using T-Plan Robot. Design reusable test frameworks, execute and analyze automated tests, document defects, and maintain CI/CD integrations. Apply AI and LLM tools with validation workflows to improve test authoring and reliability. Collaborate with developers and product owners, track coverage and defect trends, and eventually expand automation frameworks and mentorship across other product teams.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated UI, API, integration, regression, performance, and security testing frameworks for enterprise applications, including ServiceNow and Salesforce. Integrates automated tests with CI/CD pipelines, validates data using SQL and APIs, manages test environments and tooling, investigates failures, reports defects, and collaborates with engineering teams on root-cause analysis. The role also establishes automation standards, metrics, quality gates, and provides technical guidance to QA team members.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated UI, API, integration, regression, performance, and security tests for enterprise applications including ServiceNow and Salesforce. Builds reusable frameworks, integrates testing into CI/CD pipelines, manages quality gates, validates data with SQL and APIs, diagnoses failures, supports test environments, and collaborates on defect root cause analysis. Provides QA automation standards, metrics, reporting, and technical mentorship.