Senior Automation Engineer, Robotics

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Develop Mach's standardized robotics platform for industrial robots and cobots.
• Define robot hardware, software, communication, safety, and integration standards for production equipment.
• Design, program, integrate, and commission robotic automation for pilot and production manufacturing systems.
• Develop reusable robotics software and architectures using ROS 2, finite state machines, behavior trees, and native industrial robot programming environments.
• Establish software engineering standards for robotics including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, version control, dependency management, and containerization.
• Develop standardized methods for robot software deployment, configuration management, releases, rollback, and recovery across production equipment.
• Design robotic cell architectures including robots, cobots, end-of-arm tooling, fixturing, vision systems, sensors, guarding, and material handling.
• Develop and integrate applications including machine tending, assembly, dispensing, material handling, inspection, welding, and other manufacturing processes.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience developing industrial robotic or automated manufacturing systems.
• Strong hands-on experience programming and commissioning industrial robots.
• Hands-on experience developing robotic systems using ROS 2.
• Proficiency in C++ and/or Python for robotics applications.
• Experience designing and integrating complete robotic cells including robots, tooling, sensors, controls, and safety systems.
• Experience integrating robots with PLC-controlled manufacturing equipment.
• Strong understanding of robot coordinate systems, TCPs, motion programming, calibration, path planning, and fault recovery.