Principal Robotics Systems Engineer
About The Position
Mayo Clinic is seeking a Principal Robotics Systems Engineer to provide the most senior individual-contributor integration and platform expertise across enterprise robotics initiatives. Mayo Clinic’s enterprise robotics spans clinical and surgical robotics, service and mobile robotics, logistics, transport, environmental services, and patient-facing platforms. These systems operate in multi-vendor fleets on a shared foundation of connectivity, data, security, and standards, and are evolving toward AI-driven autonomous systems. The role sets engineering direction for enterprise fleet observability, cross-vendor orchestration, and multi-vendor interoperability at enterprise scale, and serves as the definitive technical resource for the most difficult systems problems. In partnership with enterprise architects responsible for reference architecture and standards, the engineer translates architecture into practical, scaled engineering solutions across initiatives. This is an individual-contributor position with no direct reports, providing broad functional and technical leadership while modeling stewardship, integrity, and a commitment to developing others in service of patients, staff, and the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, systems engineering, mechatronics, or a related field.
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible relevant experience, including demonstrated technical leadership of complex implementations.
- Extensive demonstrated authority in multi-vendor robotics integration, interoperability standards, and fleet or platform engineering at enterprise scale.
- Track record of setting technical direction for interoperability, orchestration, and observability platforms.
- Deep expertise in interoperability standards and frameworks such as VDA 5050, Open-RMF, and OPC UA, and healthcare data standards such as HL7, including FHIR.
- Expertise in cybersecurity frameworks for connected medical and operational technology, such as ISA/IEC 62443 and IEC 81001-5-1; working knowledge of FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance and ANSI/AAMI SW96 for vendor evaluation.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives in healthcare or comparable regulated settings.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s or doctoral degree in a related field.
- Advanced vendor-platform, safety, security, or architecture certification.
- Significant experience architecting, developing, and operating production robotics, autonomous systems, IoT, edge-computing, or other distributed cyber-physical systems.
- Experience with ROS/ROS 2 and integration of heterogeneous robotic platforms, fleet-management systems, and vendor APIs.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems and integration architectures using REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven architectures, message brokers, MQTT, Kafka, or related technologies.
- Experience with cloud-native and edge technologies, including containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience designing fleet observability and operational telemetry solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar platforms.
- Experience with deployment, configuration management, CI/CD, remote software updates, and lifecycle management of distributed physical devices or robotic fleets.
- Experience integrating multi-vendor robotic or autonomous systems and familiarity with interoperability frameworks or standards such as Open-RMF, VDA 5050, or MassRobotics AMR Interoperability.
- Experience designing resilient systems that account for intermittent connectivity, device failures, cybersecurity, identity, networking, and edge/cloud operation.
- Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or senior individual contributor for complex, enterprise-scale platform or systems-integration initiatives, preferably involving robotics, autonomous systems, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, or other mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities
- Set engineering direction for enterprise fleet observability, cross-vendor orchestration, and multi-vendor interoperability at enterprise scale.
- Serve as the definitive technical resource for the most challenging systems problems.
- Partner with enterprise architects to translate enterprise reference architecture and standards into concrete, scaled engineering implementations across initiatives.
- Provide broad functional and technical leadership across enterprise-critical robotics initiatives.
- Model stewardship and integrity and support the development of others.
Benefits
- Medical plan options.
- Dental coverage through Delta Dental or a reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Vision plan with a national network.
- Health savings and flexible spending accounts for eligible expenses.
- Competitive retirement package.
- Continuing education and advancement opportunities.
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
