Team Lead, Software Engineering

Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life‑saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility
-our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Rockwell Automation is looking for a Team Lead, Software Engineering, reporting to Sr Manager, Software Engineering. You will develop industry‑leading agentic and AI‑first capabilities within Factory Talk Design Studio. These capabilities will allow customers to dramatically improve engineering productivity, quality, and speed.

You will lead a team of engineers building agentic, AI‑first features that transform how industrial engineers design their workflows throughout their development cycle. You will combine deep hands‑on technical leadership with people leadership - driving technical direction, working with lead principal architects, and delivering outcomes with high velocity and quality. You will foster an inclusive, high‑performing team culture that keeps pace with the evolving AI landscape.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. Expect to stay close to the code by designing, building, and troubleshooting production AI‑enabled software alongside the team (not just guiding from a distance). You will ramp up quickly in new domains and form opinions from evidence. You will guide the team forward, especially in the agentic AI space.

You will work with Product Management, UX, and Architecture to bring AI‑enabled experiences from concept through production, aligned with Rockwell Automation's strategy for digital transformation and industrial autonomy. As generative AI reshapes how engineers work, this role is critical to ensuring Rockwell Automation leads in delivering AI capabilities that enhance human expertise, accelerate engineering workflows, and improve quality and consistency at scale.

• Lead a team of software engineers, providing clear technical direction, decision‑making and meaningful coaching, and career development
• Deliver agentic AI and generative AI features integrated into Factory Talk Design Studio, from requirements through release.
• Guide architectural decisions for AI‑enabled systems, balancing scalability, security, performance, and usability
• Contribute hands‑on through design reviews and code reviews, code implementation, and technical innovation
• Collaborate with Product Management and UX to translate customer problems into high‑value AI‑assisted workflows
• Keep pace with this evolving field and quickly apply new developments to production systems.
• Increase adoption of modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and Dev Sec Ops  and evolve our practices to support generative AI development
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear guidance for teams and partners
• Ensure solutions meet Rockwell Automation standards for quality, security, and compliance
• Partner with platform, cloud, and data teams to integrate AI services, models, and pipelines into production software
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and learning
• Communicate with partners, providing transparency on progress, risks, and outcomes

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• Legal Authorization to work in the US is required - we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

• Typically requires 2+ years of relevant experience in software leadership functions, including experience developing software engineers in a product development environment
• Knowledge of AI trends and…