Senior Automation Engineer, Robotics

Mach Industries•Huntington Beach, CA

About The Position

Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to develop and deploy its industrial robotics platform across manufacturing. The role will establish standardized architectures for industrial robots and collaborative robots, develop robotic automation for pilot production lines, and create the software, hardware, safety, and integration standards used to scale robotics across Mach factories. This is a hands-on engineering position spanning robotic cell design, robot programming and commissioning, ROS 2 application development, vision and end-of-arm tooling integration, and collaboration with manufacturing engineers and systems integrators to bring automation from concept through production. The engineer will also help standardize robotics software, deployment, simulation, safety, and integration practices, and support production ramp and equipment performance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
At least 5 years of experience developing industrial robotic or automated manufacturing systems.
Strong hands-on experience programming and commissioning industrial robots.
Hands-on experience developing robotic systems using ROS 2.
Proficiency in C++ and/or Python for robotics applications.
Experience designing and integrating complete robotic cells, including robots, tooling, sensors, controls, and safety systems.
Experience integrating robots with PLC-controlled manufacturing equipment.
Strong understanding of robot coordinate systems, TCPs, motion programming, calibration, path planning, and fault recovery.
Experience designing robotic software architectures using finite state machines and/or behavior trees.
Experience with modern software development practices, including Git-based version control, CI/CD, automated testing, and containerized deployment.
Experience taking robotic equipment from concept through integration, commissioning, and production.
Ability to troubleshoot complex electromechanical, controls, networking, and software systems directly on manufacturing equipment.
Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice To Haves

Advanced experience with one or more major robotics platforms such as FANUC, ABB, KUKA, Yaskawa, Universal Robots, Standard Bots, or similar.
Experience developing standardized robotic software or architectures deployed across multiple machines or production lines.
Experience integrating robotics with Beckhoff TwinCAT, EtherCAT, and TwinSAFE.
Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, digital twins, robotic simulation, or virtual commissioning.
Experience with 2D/3D machine vision, robot guidance, force/torque sensing, or advanced robotic process control.
Experience applying machine learning to robotic perception, manipulation, inspection, process optimization, or other manufacturing applications.
Experience developing robotics data-acquisition systems for telemetry, diagnostics, process monitoring, or model development.
Experience designing or specifying end-of-arm tooling, automated fixturing, and robotic material-handling systems.
Experience with offline robot programming, motion planning, collision detection, or trajectory optimization.
Familiarity with industrial robot and machine-safety standards, including ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, and ISO 13849.
Experience working with systems integrators and equipment OEMs.
Experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, electronics, semiconductor, or other advanced manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

Develop Mach's standardized robotics platform for industrial robots and collaborative robots.
Define robot hardware, software, communication, safety, and integration standards for production equipment.
Design, program, integrate, and commission robotic automation for pilot and production manufacturing systems.
Develop reusable robotics software and architectures using ROS 2, finite state machines, behavior trees, and native industrial robot programming environments.
Establish robotics software engineering standards, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, version control, dependency management, and containerization.
Develop standardized methods for robot software deployment, configuration management, releases, rollback, and recovery across production equipment.
Design robotic cell architectures that include robots, cobots, end-of-arm tooling, fixturing, vision systems, sensors, guarding, and material handling.
Develop and integrate applications such as machine tending, assembly, dispensing, material handling, inspection, and welding.
Integrate robots and ROS 2 applications with Beckhoff TwinCAT control systems and establish standardized PLC-to-robot interfaces.
Integrate 2D/3D machine vision, force/torque sensing, servo tooling, and other advanced robotic peripherals.
Develop standards for robot calibration, TCP definition, coordinate frames, path optimization, fault handling, recovery, and repeatability validation.
Partner with controls and safety engineers to develop safe robotic systems, including guarding, interlocks, safe motion, scanners, and collaborative applications.
Develop simulation and virtual commissioning workflows to validate robotic applications before deployment to physical equipment.
Translate successful pilot systems into robotics standards and specifications for deployment by external systems integrators.
Review and support integrator robotic designs, programming, simulation, FAT, SAT, and commissioning.
Troubleshoot robotic, mechanical, controls, vision, networking, and software issues during equipment startup and production ramp.
Optimize robot paths, cycle times, reliability, fault recovery, and OEE to achieve production Run at Rate milestones.
Mentor engineers and technicians on robotic system design, software architecture, programming, and troubleshooting.