We are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• Passionate customer focus
• Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution
• Detail oriented
• Able to work independently and part of a team when needed
• Interest in exploring and pushing the boundaries of material-handling robotics

Job Function

• The Engineer in this role will work with a multidisciplinary team to integrate software that controls physical components, contributing to robotic applications related to e-commerce order fulfillment, parcel sortation and store replenishment.
• The Engineer in this role will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining software that integrates and enhances robotic capabilities to deliver product features.
• The Engineer in this role will create software responsible for facilitating communications between PLCs and other embedded devices, with higher-level application software.

Here is some of what you’ll do:

• Work as part of a team to develop software solutions for automated material-handling workflows and robotic manipulation systems
• Lead selection, prototyping, and initial design of new sensing options (e.g. barcode scanners, beam-breaks, pressure sensors, force sensors, etc.)
• Work with customers to define and scope material-handling problems
• Record and analyze numerical and graphical data for presentation to senior leadership
• Troubleshoot early-stage and early-production design and functionality problems

Skills/Technical Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in software development.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team
• Commercial experience in a fast paced, Agile environment
• Proficient in Python and/or C++
• Experience with industrial ethernet protocols such as PROFINET and/or EtherNet/IP
• Hands-on technical experience PLC programming in one or more of the following:
  • Siemens Simatic Step 7 (TIA Portal)
  • Rockwell Automation (Studio5000)
• Linux (Ubuntu)
• VCS (Git)
• Issue Tracking Systems (Jira)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience creating middleware, abstraction layers and APIs for industrial protocols (Profinet, Ethernet/IP, ModbusTCP, OPC-UA)
  
• Hands-on experience with real-time industrial automation systems and common controls architecture.
  
• Experience with robotics and robotic solutions
  
• Experience with one or more of the following:
  ○ Messaging Systems (gRPC, Kafka)
  ○ Asynchronous/Concurrent Programming
  ○ CI/CD processes (Jenkins, Automated Testing)
  

Educational Requirements: Bachelors degree Computer Science or a similar field.

Travel: 10%

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