Fluid Power Systems Engineer
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Job overview
The Fluid Power Systems Engineer partners with sales to translate customer requirements into custom hydraulic, pneumatic, coolant, and lubrication systems. The role spans design, proposals, manufacturing support, start-up, testing, and close-out. It also contributes to design reviews, sales training, efficiency and quality improvements, inventory recommendations, vendor relationships, and competitor insights.
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Full job description
Turn customer ideas into working systems.
At Exotic Automation, we design and build custom hydraulic, pneumatic, and lubrication systems for our customers. As our Fluid Power Systems Engineer, you will be the technical partner behind our sales team: taking customer requirements, designing the solution, and seeing it through to build, start-up, and close-out. If you like solving real engineering problems and seeing your designs come to life on the shop floor, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
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Design custom solutions. Review customer specs and performance requirements, then create schematics, layout drawings, and proposals for hydraulic, pneumatic, coolant, and lubrication systems.
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Support the sales team. Quote and detail assemblies, join customer visits when needed, and help sales win work with sound technical solutions.
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Own the documentation. Finalize bills of materials, record as-built changes from assembly, and make sure every job folder is complete at close-out.
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See it built. Work with manufacturing during system builds and support start-up and testing.
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Make the team better. Take part in peer design reviews, catch errors early, suggest improvements, and help train sales staff on products.
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Think like a business partner. Look for ways to improve efficiency, quality, and cost. Recommend inventory, build strong vendor relationships, and share what you learn about competitors.
What You Bring
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Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field (1+ year of engineering work experience may substitute)
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2+ years detailing mechanical layouts and schematics. Hydraulic and pneumatic automation experience is a strong plus.
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Hands-on experience with design software such as AutoCAD (2D), Inventor (3D), SolidWorks, or NX
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Strong communication skills and comfort working with customers, sales, and shop teams
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An eye for detail and pride in accurate, complete work
Why Exotic Automation
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Work on custom, hands-on engineering projects, not cookie-cutter designs
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See your work go from concept to finished system
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A collaborative team where engineering, sales, and manufacturing work side by side
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Part of the Value Added Companies family, with the stability of a growing organization
Exotic Automation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This position requires access to information subject to ITAR; applicants must be U.S. persons as defined by 22 CFR 120.62.
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How this job compares
Set against the 11,502 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Michigan median$103–172K/yr74 salary ranges
- US median$56–70/hr446 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 176 open Systems Engineer jobs in Michigan and 11,502 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,604 postings).
- Education
- 4,559 of the 11,502 open Systems Engineer jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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