Principal Digital Factory Engineer IV
RTX Corporation2 months ago
McKinney, TX, USA or Andover, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$108k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and integrate digital factory applications using Ignition, Python, SQL, and related technologies.
- Build operator interfaces, dashboards, backend workflows, data queries, and automated factory logic.
- Connect factory equipment, sensors, PLCs, and gateways using Modbus/TCP, OPC-UA, EIP, MQTT, and related protocols.
- Configure data ingestion pipelines and optimize historian tags, data models, analytics feeds, and factory data flows.
- Support digital thread, digital twin, IIoT, multi-site deployment, and enterprise factory integration initiatives.
- Use Azure DevOps or comparable tools for source control, pipelines, builds, deployments, and release support.
- Investigate and correct application defects, connectivity failures, data inconsistencies, build issues, and performance problems.
- Collaborate with manufacturing engineering, product, OT, IT, data, and test teams on requirements, design reviews, integrations, and roadmaps.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to development standards, integration patterns, architecture, and technical planning.
Requirements
- STEM degree and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience are typically required.
- Strong experience building applications with Ignition, including Perspective, scripting, and gateway configuration.
- Experience with Python, SQL, REST APIs, JSON, and industrial communication protocols.
- Experience developing dashboards, interfaces, backend processes, automated workflows, and equipment or OT integrations.
- Experience with Azure DevOps or comparable tools for code management and continuous integration and delivery.
- Experience supporting technology deployments across multiple manufacturing sites and working across technical and operational teams.
- Familiarity with enterprise IIoT patterns, unified data architectures, MQTT brokers, historian or analytics platforms, MES/CMES integrations, digital thread systems, or factory data pipelines.
- Experience contributing to system design discussions, standards development, architectural patterns, mentoring, or cross-team technical planning.
- Ignition Gold Certification or willingness to obtain it within the first year.
- Understanding of OT cybersecurity fundamentals and secure data design practices.
- U.S. citizenship is required, an active DoD Secret clearance is required after day one, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance is required.
Benefits
- Onsite role with locations in Tucson, Arizona; Forest, Mississippi; Andover, Massachusetts; or McKinney, Texas.
- The position is not eligible for relocation.
- Potential benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, the Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation may be available, subject to position, agreement, and performance factors.
About RTX Corporation
RTX Corporation builds aerospace and defense systems through its Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon businesses, serving commercial aviation, the U.S. government, and allied militaries. Its products range from aircraft engines and avionics to radars, missiles, and command-and-control software, sold via long-term OEM programs and defense contracts. Formed in 2020 by the Raytheon–United Technologies merger, RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and trades on the NYSE as RTX.