Robotics Automation Engineer Senior Engineer

About This Role

This engineering role focuses on turning robotics use cases into safe, reliable, and scalable production systems across various operational environments like manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics. The Robotics Automation Engineer understands the broader Physical AI lifecycle, including digital twins, simulation, robot training, intelligent orchestration, industrial data, and managed operations, while specializing in the design, programming, integration, commissioning, and support of robotic automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, program, configure, and deploy industrial robots, collaborative robots, AMRs/AGVs, mobile manipulation, and related robotic automation
• Integrate robots with end effectors, conveyors, safety systems, machine vision, sensors, PLCs, SCADA, MES, WMS, ERP, and site workflows
• Develop robot programs, control logic, interfaces, and adapters using OEM tools, ROS/ROS 2, Python, C++, or relevant automation technologies
• Support cell design, reach and cycle-time studies, tooling specifications, layout validation, safety assessment, and equipment selection with engineering partners
• Use digital twins and simulation for offline programming, layout validation, process testing, virtual commissioning, fleet sizing, and deployment-risk reduction
• Support robotics intelligence capabilities such as perception, localization, SLAM, motion planning, task planning, sensor fusion, and autonomous decision logic where applicable
• Contribute to robot training and validation workflows, including synthetic data, simulation-based testing, and simulation-to-real transfer when required
• Integrate robots and fleets with orchestration platforms for task allocation, traffic management, exception handling, monitoring, and coordinated operations
• Conduct integration, safety, hardware-in-the-loop, factory-acceptance, site-acceptance, and production-readiness testing
• Troubleshoot software, controls, network, sensor, mechanical, and operational issues through commissioning and post-go-live support
• Document robot programs, interfaces, configurations, test evidence, operating procedures, runbooks, and support requirements
• Collaborate with Physical AI architects, digital-twin and simulation engineers, OT teams, client operations, and robotics ecosystem partners

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in robotics automation, robot programming, controls integration, AMR/AGV deployment, or autonomous systems
• Hands-on experience with at least one industrial robot, cobot, or mobile-robot ecosystem such as FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Universal Robots, or equivalent
• Understanding of robotics fundamentals including coordinate frames, kinematics, motion, sensors, controls, and safe operation

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