Siemens

Industrial Edge Integration Engineer - Physical AI hub, Kitchener

Siemens • $90K — $140K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, or related field.
  • 4+ years of experience with SIMATIC AX, TIA Portal, Industrial Edge, or similar automation systems.
  • Strong programming skills in C++, C#, TypeScript, Python, or similar languages.
  • Experience with platform lifecycle concepts like startup, shutdown, and deployment.
  • Understanding of industrial diagnostics, tracing, and observability workflows.
  • Experience with messaging, IPC, and deterministic data exchange.
  • Practical troubleshooting skills in runtime software and industrial networks.

Responsibilities

  • Build runtime integration components for Physical AI services and SIMATIC AX.
  • Implement lifecycle behavior for runtime components including health states and recovery.
  • Integrate diagnostics and tracing for runtime components.
  • Translate runtime errors and operator events into platform-native signals.
  • Define and document interface contracts between runtime and edge services.
  • Support integration tests and field troubleshooting.
  • Collaborate with architecture, DevOps, and UX teams for consistent runtime behavior.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with on-site presence for key tasks.
  • Eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus based on company performance.
Full Job Description
About the role:

Are you passionate about bringing advanced runtime software into industrial automation platforms? Do you enjoy working at the boundary between application software, edge systems, diagnostics, deterministic exchange, and operator-facing industrial systems?

We are seeking an Industrial Edge Integration Engineer to help integrate the Physical AI Runtime with SIMATIC AX and Siemens Industrial Edge. SIMATIC AX is Siemens' software-defined automation environment. Siemens Industrial Edge is an open edge computing platform for deploying, running and centrally managing containerized apps (analytics, AI, connectivity) on the shop floor, bridging OT and IT with low-latency local processing and fleet-wide software management. This engineer will work on AX SDK integration, Industrial Edge app deployment, runtime lifecycle behavior, HMI error propagation, DiagnosticsSDK, TracingSDK, DDS, HDX, and deployment profiles that make AI-assisted robotics workflows supportable in industrial environments.

What you will do:
  • Build runtime integration components that connect Physical AI services to SIMATIC AX and Industrial Edge environments.
  • Implement lifecycle behavior for startup, shutdown, runlevels, health states, recovery, deployment, and upgrade paths.
  • Integrate diagnostics, tracing, deterministic exchange, and HMI-visible status for runtime components.
  • Translate runtime errors, warnings, escalations, and operator handover events into platform-native signals.
  • Define and document interface contracts between the runtime, edge services, HMI, automation systems, and observability tools.
  • Support integration tests, reference-cell bring-up, field troubleshooting, and release-readiness validation.
  • Work with platform architecture, DevOps, QA, Edge Runtime, and UX engineers to keep runtime behavior consistent and supportable.

What you will bring:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • 4+ years strong professional experience with SIMATIC AX, TIA Portal, Industrial Edge, PLC-adjacent runtime environments, industrial software platforms, or comparable automation systems.
  • Strong programming skills in C++, C#, TypeScript, Python, or another language used for platform, runtime, or integration software.
  • Experience integrating application services with platform lifecycle concepts such as startup, shutdown, runlevels, health states, restart behavior, deployment, upgrade, and rollback.
  • Understanding of industrial diagnostics, tracing, logging, observability, and support workflows.
  • Experience with messaging, IPC, deterministic data exchange, time-sensitive data flows, or distributed system integration.
  • Ability to connect runtime state and error conditions to HMI-visible signals, operator handover paths, diagnostics, and service workflows.
  • Experience collaborating with architecture, DevOps, robotics, QA, and UX teams on integration contracts and platform constraints.
  • Practical troubleshooting skills across runtime software, industrial networks, containers, edge devices, and automation environments.

What sets you apart:
  • Direct experience with Siemens Industrial Edge, SIMATIC AX, TIA Portal, DiagnosticsSDK, TracingSDK, HDX, DDS, PROFINET, OPC UA, or related Siemens automation technologies.
  • Experience integrating robotics, vision, AI inference, or machine-control workloads into industrial runtime environments.
  • Knowledge of deployment to constrained edge compute environments, including offline operation, resource budgets, update procedures, and field support.
  • Experience designing deterministic and observable exchange paths between runtime components and platform services.
  • Familiarity with HMI integration, operator alerts, machine state, alarm handling, and service diagnostics.
  • Ability to make integration behavior explicit through contracts, traces, tests, and operational runbooks.
  • Strong judgment about how to keep AI-assisted runtime components separate from certified machine safety functions.

Work environment:
  • This role includes software development, platform integration, and hands-on validation with industrial edge and automation environments.
  • Hybrid work is supported, with on-site presence expected for platform bring-up, HMI integration, runtime diagnostics, and reference-cell validation

Salary is commensurate with experience, and ranges between $ 90,000 CAD - $ 140,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus of 10% of base salary, based on Company performance metrics.

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About Siemens

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the company are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities, which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 385,000 people worldwide and reported global revenue of around €87 billion in 2019 according to its earnings release.
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