ROBOTICS ENGINEERING LEAD

Title: ROBOTICS ENGINEERING LEAD

Location: Santa Rosa, California

Full time and 100% onsite position

COBOTS, AMRs & FACTORY AUTOMATION

What you'll lead

• Identify and prioritize manufacturing processes suited to automation, building the business and technical case for each opportunity.

• Design, program, integrate and commission collaborative robot cells for assembly, material handling, machine tending, inspection and test.

• Deploy autonomous mobile robots for intelligent material movement, including route planning, fleet coordination and workstation hand-offs.

• Own delivery from requirements and concept design through simulation, build, FAT/SAT, validation and production hand-off.

• Integrate robots, sensors, 2D/3D vision, end-effectors and grippers with existing factory equipment and production lines.

• Set technical standards, review designs and mentor engineers, technicians and operators while remaining personally hands-on.

• Evaluate robotics and integration vendors, run pilots and scale the solutions that achieve safety, quality and throughput goals.

• Partner with safety stakeholders on risk assessments and compliance before each robotic system goes live.

What you'll bring SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA

• Bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent industry research experience.

• At least 3 years of industrial automation or robotics experience deploying systems in a live manufacturing or production environment.

• A strong combination of software and mechanical engineering capability.

• Hands-on experience programming and integrating collaborative robots, such as Universal Robots or equivalent platforms, with end-effectors, grippers and vision systems.

• Experience deploying AMRs and material-handling automation on a factory floor.

• Experience with cobot simulation and offline programming tools used to validate layouts, cycle times and reachability before physical deployment.

• Demonstrated success leading projects and mentoring others while remaining deeply involved in technical execution.

• Strong problem-solving, communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. Visa sponsorship is not available for this opportunity.