Middle Embedded Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Brazil

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Analyze existing PLC-based solutions and legacy implementations to identify modernization and migration opportunities.

• Support re-architecture initiatives that transition legacy PLC-centric systems toward modern, scalable technology frameworks.

• Refactor monolithic, complex, or poorly documented legacy code into modular and reusable architectures.

• Apply object-oriented programming concepts within modern industrial automation environments.

• Optimize memory mapping, user-defined data types (UDTs), and tag structures to improve system maintainability and performance.

• Design and implement standardized state-machine approaches, including PackML-based models.

• Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to understand technical requirements, modernization objectives, and migration constraints.

• Contribute to system integration activities, technical design reviews, modernization planning, and architectural recommendations.

• Support cross-functional engineering initiatives involving industrial automation, embedded technologies, and software transformation.

• Document technical solutions and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional experience in PLC development or industrial automation.

• Strong understanding of PLC programming concepts and industrial control systems.

• Hands-on experience with at least one major PLC ecosystem, such as Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Beckhoff, or Schneider Electric.

• Experience analyzing, maintaining, or modernizing legacy industrial systems.

• Understanding of software architecture, refactoring practices, and technology migration projects.

• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and system integration capabilities.

• Familiarity with object-oriented design principles is desirable.

• Experience with PLCopen standards and related tools is a plus.

• Experience with object-oriented industrial programming in TwinCAT, CODESYS, or comparable environments is advantageous.

• Background in industrial software modernization, digital transformation, or automotive environments is a plus.

• Upper-intermediate English proficiency or higher, with the ability to collaborate effectively in international environments.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work across international and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Benefits

• Fully remote work from Brazil within a globally distributed LATAM environment.

• Opportunity to contribute to large-scale industrial automation modernization and transformation projects.

• Collaboration with international engineering professionals and industry specialists.

• Exposure to modern industrial automation technologies, software architecture, and engineering best practices.

• Professional growth through complex migration, re-engineering, and system integration initiatives.

• Flexible collaboration within distributed international teams.

• Inclusive and respectful working environment with equal opportunities for diverse backgrounds and experiences.