Associate Engineer

FANUC America Corporation•Rochester Hills, MI

About The Position

The Engineer (Robotic Applications) will provide strong and consistent robot application engineering support to FANUC’s automotive customers who deploy robots into their automotive manufacturing facilities. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker and problem-solver, experienced with FANUC technology, automotive applications and skilled in navigating complex engineering challenges while actively supporting the broader objectives of the Automotive Solutions Engineering (ASE) team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, software) or equivalent, relevant experience.
Minimum 1 year of experience with automated systems and applications (actual equipment integration, installation, and production experience a plus).
Experience with Automotive processes such as spot welding, stud welding, dispensing, riveting etc.
Experience with simulation tools including FANUC ROBOGUIDE, Process Simulate, Emulate3D and others.
Experience with vision applications including FANUC iRVision.
Understanding of FANUC products and applications.
Robotic application knowledge and experience.

Nice To Haves

3+ years of related experience.
Segment / Project Management / Product Management / Application Engineering experience related to robot application, system or product implementation.
Customer and application experience to effectively identify and promote new application concepts across strategic customer initiatives.
Familiarity with multiple automotive robotic applications used in Body Shop, General Assembly, and Powertrain.

Responsibilities

Establish and foster strong application focused relationships across automotive customers and FANUC internal teams.
Maintain awareness and technical understanding of automotive customer applications, processes, challenges and issues.
Collaborate closely with cross departmental teams to drive resolution of outstanding application issues.
Collaborate with automotive customers to understand their application challenges to identify and/or evaluate possible solution concepts.
Collaborate with Segment, Innovation Lab and GSSV teams to prepare material that enables FAC automotive sales to promote features, benefits, advantages and business value of new and existing FANUC products, engineering services and application solutions.
Work with Automotive Application Engineering (AAE) engineers to develop, validate, and present new application solutions to automotive customers.
Support FAC sales by preparing and presenting material or coordinating coverage from the appropriate segment/AAE engineer on the application of FANUC products for customer visits to FAC and sales visits to customer sites.
Escalate product application issues/requests with other FANUC departments to meet customer and project needs.
Negotiate issue resolutions, establish and communicate business priorities, and collaborate with Segment to prepare clear and complete functional requirements for customer requested application developments.