THE FUTURE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.
Advanced Software Engineer
Location: Sydney (NSW)
Start your career by making an impact and real connections with some of the most meaningful challenges around. When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our performance culture comprised of diverse leaders, thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who are changing the future.
Make the Best You.
Working at Honeywell is not just creating incredible things. You will collaborate with top minds, grow through continuous learning, and thrive in an environment that rewards and celebrates achievements.
Join Us and Make an Impact.
This is a key R&D role where you will make a significant contribution to the development of innovations for Honeywell’s flagship Industrial Automation System for customers worldwide. You’ll apply your strong engineering skills, knowledge of Process Control and Advanced Process Control, interest and aptitude in AI technologies, and domain experience across industries served by Honeywell, including Oil & Gas, LNG, and Mining, Minerals & Metals (MMM).
Based at the Honeywell R&D Centre in Sydney, you will work on stimulating R&D projects as part of Honeywell’s global Industrial Automation engineering community, while enjoying a hybrid working environment that supports flexibility and collaboration.
- Enjoy a strong team culture that values solving challenging engineering problems and delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
- Work on high-impact R&D projects that make a difference for major customers worldwide.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert, helping deliver innovations that enable Industrial Automation systems to move toward autonomous operations.
- Collaborate with industry leaders to shape the future of automation, with opportunities for career advancement as a senior technologist.
Key Responsibilities
- Research, design, and develop next-generation software-based industrial automation solutions using advanced technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to enhance process control, operational efficiency, and system reliability.
- Collaborate closely with Systems Architecture, User Experience (UX), and cross-functional engineering teams to conceptualize, design, and deliver innovative software products for industrial automation applications.
- Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, system design, coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing product improvements.
- Partner with R&D teams and customers to support new product introductions and ensure solutions meet technical requirements and business objectives.
- Develop scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications that improve automation capabilities and customer operational outcomes across process industries.
- Engage with customers and stakeholders to understand operational challenges, translate business requirements into technical solutions, and drive product innovation.
- Perform software quality assurance activities, including code reviews, troubleshooting, testing, and performance optimization to maintain high product standards.
- Support global engineering teams in delivering complex software integrations and advanced automation solutions while promoting knowledge sharing and technical excellence.
Key Experience & Capabilities
- Strong engineering, analytical, and problem-solving skills with a passion for innovation.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering with a credit average or above.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong knowledge of software development practices and real-time systems.
- Ability to work collaboratively to achieve product development milestones.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Experience deploying large-scale, complex industrial automation and control systems, including DCS, SCADA, and Advanced Process Control (APC) applications.
- Experience with, or a strong interest in, applying Artificial Intelligence technologies within industrial automation environments.
- Experience developing mission-critical distributed systems.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and secure software development practices.
- Experience mentoring, coaching, or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
Who We Are
The Future Is What We Make It at Honeywell. From sustainable aviation fuel and life-saving healthcare sensors to collaborating on every NASA space mission since the 1950’s, over 100 years of innovation has always been driven by an investment in our people. Learn more about Honeywell: youtube.com/watch?v=CG-rmG0eKLk
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Our focus at Honeywell is innovation that drives business, improves the bottom line and creates solutions for our customers and communities around the world. There’s a lot for you to discover. Our solutions, our case studies, our #Futureshapers, and so much more.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer, and we support a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
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About UsHoneywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.
