Senior Automation Engineer

Experience Required

7 - 20 years

Minimum Education Required

Bachelor's Degree

Compensation

$115,000.00 - $153,000.00 / yearly

Hours Per Week

40

Number Of Positions

1

Work Schedule and Shift Requirements

First (Day)

Job Description

Join Atlas Air Worldwide. Move the World with Us!

At Atlas Air Worldwide, we're not just an airline, we're a global engine powering cargo, passenger, and leasing operations across more than 70 countries. As a leader in outsourced aviation logistics, we're built on a foundation of safety, service excellence, integrity, innovation, teamwork, and responsibility. With over 30 years of history, a modern all-Boeing fleet, and nearly 5,000 teammates collaborating across operations, technical, and corporate functions, we're driven by purpose.

If you're ready to grow, innovate, and help us deliver excellence every single day, you belong here.

*This role is flexible to be based in White Plains, NY; Erlanger, KY; or Miami, FL office.

Atlas Air is on a mission to transform how our operations run - and automation is at the center of that work. As a Senior Automation Engineer, you'll design and deliver solutions that eliminate manual bottlenecks, connect enterprise systems, and make our most critical workflows faster and more reliable. This isn't a maintenance role. You'll be solving hard, ambiguous problems where both the business requirements and the technical path forward need to be defined from scratch.

You'll work closely with operational and technical stakeholders across the business, translating complex process challenges into elegant, scalable automation - and helping set the strategic direction for how we build and scale automation capability at the enterprise level.

Values and Behavioral Standards: To ensure the effective communication and application of company values and behavioral standards, as stated in our company "Code of Conduct" policy, and to respond appropriately in the event of any known departure, and to manage the people and processes for which the position is responsible in an effective, open and mature fashion.

Major Accountabilities:

Design and implement end-to-end automation solutions across enterprise systems, including ERP and WMS

Build robust integrations using APIs, webhooks, event-driven patterns, and messaging queues

Write clean, maintainable automation scripts in Python, PowerShell, or JavaScript

Work across cloud and serverless environments (AWS or Azure) and enterprise data platforms such as Databricks, Redshift, or BigQuery

Develop and manage complex job scheduling, orchestration, and dependency chains

Incorporate AI-based automation where it meaningfully improves outcomes

Own reliability - design for error handling, monitoring, and operational visibility from the start

Contribute to and help shape Atlas's enterprise automation roadmap

Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar across the team

Clearly articulate solution tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences

Qualifications:

7+ years of experience as an Automation Engineer or in a closely related role

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Proven track record delivering automation solutions in complex, enterprise-scale environments

Deep proficiency with workflow and orchestration tools, scripting languages, and system integration patterns

Comfort working with structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML, SQL)

A process optimization mindset - you find inefficiency frustrating and fixing it energizing

Experience influencing technical roadmaps beyond your immediate team

Ability to move fast in an iterative environment without sacrificing quality

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship or employer immigration support either now or in the future.

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Competitive compensation will be offered based on a variety of factors, including a candidate's experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity and other factors. In addition, a range of benefits to include medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, as well as generous paid time off, and 401K contributions are offered as a part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range

$115,000—$153,000 USD

AtAtlas Air Worldwide, we believe in the power of people, the promise of innovation, and the responsibility we hold to each other, to our customers, and to the planet. Join us and be part of a team that lifts more than cargo; we lift ambition.

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to afford equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to r ace, color, r eligion, s ex, s exual orientation, national origin, citizenship, place of birth, age, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

Job Type

Full time

Benefits Offered

Not specified

Veteran Preference

No

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

4264689009