Principal Robotics Systems Engineer
About The Position
The Principal Robotics Systems Engineer is Mayo Clinic’s most senior integration-and-platform individual contributor for enterprise robotics, spanning clinical and surgical robotics as well as service and mobile robotics used for logistics, transport, environmental services, and patient-facing applications. These systems comprise multi-vendor fleets built on shared connectivity, data, security, and standards foundations, and are evolving from sensor-driven deterministic robots toward AI-driven autonomous systems. The role exercises broad technical authority across multiple enterprise-critical robotics initiatives and sets engineering direction for enterprise fleet observability, cross-vendor orchestration, and multi-vendor interoperability at enterprise scale. The incumbent serves as the definitive technical resource for the most difficult systems problems. In partnership with enterprise architects, who own enterprise reference architecture and standards, the principal translates that architecture into concrete, scaled engineering outcomes across initiatives without owning the enterprise architecture. This is an individual-contributor role with no direct reports that provides 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 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.
- Knowledge of 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.
- Leadership of 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 (such as ISA/IEC 62443), 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 cloud platforms such as 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 robotics interoperability frameworks or standards such as Open-RMF, VDA 5050, MassRobotics AMR Interoperability, or related approaches.
- Experience designing resilient systems that account for intermittent connectivity, device failures, cybersecurity, identity, networking, and edge/cloud operation.
- Demonstrated experience serving 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.
- Provide technical authority across multiple enterprise-critical robotics initiatives.
- Serve as the definitive technical resource for the hardest systems problems.
- Translate enterprise reference architecture and standards into concrete, scaled engineering outcomes across initiatives in partnership with enterprise architects.
- Provide broad functional and technical leadership as an individual contributor without direct reports.
- Model stewardship and integrity and support the development of others.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans.
- Medical plan options.
- Dental coverage through Delta Dental or a reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Vision plan with a national network.
- HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
- Competitive retirement package.
- Continuing education and advancement opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
