Senior Applications Engineer (Glen Cove, NY)
About The Position
Standard Bots is seeking a Senior Applications Engineer to join their team. This role is crucial for ensuring the functionality of their industrial robots. The position is based in Glen Cove, NY, and requires up to 30% domestic travel. This is a hands-on role focused on building, wiring, and operating robots, rather than a traditional software engineering position. The Senior Applications Engineer will bridge mechanical, electrical, and software engineering disciplines to solve customer production line issues with robotic solutions. Responsibilities include building proofs of concept, designing integrations, scripting, wiring, commissioning cells, and training customer teams. The role is ideal for individuals who enjoy building and tinkering, and who get bored at a desk.
Requirements
- A genuine trifecta: comfortable with mechanical systems, electrical systems, and software
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with industrial automation fundamentals: PLC programming and ladder logic, pneumatics, DC power systems (NPN and PNP), robot programming (any platform), and Python scripting
- Proficiency with CAD -- SolidWorks preferred
- Customer-facing experience
- A genuine bias for getting things done in the field, not just in theory
- Comfort with up to 30% domestic travel
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline -- or equivalent hands-on experience
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience with collaborative robots (UR, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB, or similar)
- Familiarity with machine tending, palletizing, welding, or assembly automation applications
- Experience with vision systems, force/torque sensing, or custom end-of-arm tooling
- Background in a manufacturing or production environment
Responsibilities
- Work with the sales team and customers to understand automation goals, production constraints, and integration requirements
- Design practical, buildable solutions around Standard Bots' hardware and build the proof of concept yourself to validate it works before anyone signs anything
- Develop application notes, sample code, and supporting documentation that help customers and internal teams understand how to replicate and scale solutions
- Travel to customer sites to install, program, wire, and commission robotic cells
- Own the integration from mechanical setup through software configuration -- fixtures, I/O, PLC handshakes, safety, test, sign-off
- Troubleshoot on-site when things don't go as planned
- Train customer operators and technicians on Standard Bots hardware and software -- both on-site and at our facility
- Support customers post-install as they find new applications and push the limits of what the robot can do
- Be a trusted technical resource for the accounts you've worked with
- Represent Standard Bots at industry events and trade shows -- build the demo, run it live, talk shop with engineers and plant managers on the floor
- Help develop and maintain demo systems that show the breadth of what Standard Bots hardware can do
- Feed real-world integration learnings back to our hardware and software engineering teams
- Assist in-house engineering with testing new features, peripherals, and integrations as we expand the platform
Benefits
- Employee Stock Options
- paid time off
- medical/dental/vision insurance
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- 401(k)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
