Site Reliability Engineer Lead, Plant Floor Systems

We launched Lucid in 2016 to build the world’s best cars and accelerate the shift to clean energy. Our vehicles deliver best-in-class performance *and* efficiency. Equally important, we’re building a world-class team: From our state-of-the-art factory in Arizona to our global headquarters in California’s Silicon Valley, we’re recruiting high-performing people who want to help decarbonize Earth. Join us!

The PFS SRE Lead is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Manufacturing Plant Systems (MES, LMIS) across production environments. This role combines leadership, technical expertise, and cross-functional collaboration to drive operational excellence and system resilience.

You Will:

• Lead the team of MES- focused SREs, automation specialist and monitoring analysts.
• Mentor team member and foster a culture of continuous improvement and blameless postmortems.
• Oversee the implementation of observability tools and dashboards for Systems performance and health monitoring.
• Lead incidents response efforts and ensure timely resolution of MES, LMIS related issues.
• Drive automation of deployments, health checks, and recovery processes.
• Collaboration with Development, Project teams to integrate MES into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with MES & Ignition Developers, PFS Operations, and IT Infrastructure teams.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Plant Systems reliability concerns.
• Analyze systems performance trends and forecast future capacity needs.
• Recommend infrastructure improvements to support MES scalability.
• Ensure MES systems adhere to cybersecurity and regulatory standards.
• Support audits and documentation for compliance initiatives.

You Bring:

• 10+ years in IT Operations, SRE, MES support roles with Engineering degree in IT, Electronics or Computer Science.
• Strong knowledge of MES platforms- Rockwell FTPC.
• Strong knowledge of PLC- Rockwell and Siemens
• Experience with monitoring tools (Elastic APM, Grafana, Dynatrace), Automation (Ansible, Python), and CI/CD.
• Excellent Leadership, communication, and incident management skills.

 

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