Senior Robotics Systems Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Robotics Systems Engineer provides technical leadership for complex, high-ambiguity integration and platform engineering across Mayo Clinic’s enterprise robotics work. This includes clinical and surgical robotics, service and mobile robotics for logistics, transport, environmental services, and patient-facing platforms, delivered through multi-vendor fleets on shared connectivity, data, security, and standards foundations. The enterprise is evolving from sensor-driven, deterministic robots toward AI-driven autonomous systems. The engineer independently defines and delivers approaches for multi-vendor integration, interoperability, commissioning, and reliability at enterprise scale; resolves difficult deployment problems; and sets technical direction in a domain such as fleet systems or integration. As a recognized platform and interoperability expert, the role shapes conditions of purchase, mentors other engineers, and partners closely with enterprise architects and domain owners. This is an individual-contributor role with no direct reports, providing functional and technical leadership while modeling respect, teamwork, 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.
- Five years of relevant experience.
- Deep hands-on experience with multi-vendor robotics integration, interoperability standards, and fleet or platform engineering.
- Demonstrated ownership of interoperability implementations such as VDA 5050, Open-RMF, or OPC UA, and robot fleet management, observability, or orchestration platforms.
- Exposure to healthcare data standards such as HL7, including FHIR, and cybersecurity frameworks for connected medical and operational technology, such as ISA/IEC 62443, IEC 81001-5-1, and AAMI TIR57 / ANSI/AAMI SW96.
- Project leadership experience.
- Healthcare deployment experience.
Nice To Haves
- Master's or doctoral degree in a related field.
- Relevant advanced certifications; no licensure or certification is required.
- Advanced vendor-platform, safety (such as ANSI/A3 R15.08, ISO 3691-4, or ANSI/A3 R15.06), or security certification.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Own complex, high-ambiguity integration and platform engineering across concurrent engagements and enterprise robotics platform capabilities.
- Define and deliver engineering approaches for multi-vendor integration, interoperability, commissioning, and reliability at enterprise scale.
- Resolve difficult robotics deployment problems and set technical direction within a domain such as fleet systems or integration.
- Act as a platform and interoperability expert and shape conditions of purchase.
- Mentor other engineers and provide functional and technical leadership.
- Partner closely with enterprise architects and domain owners.
- Model respect, teamwork, and commitment to developing others in service of patients, staff, and the organization.
Benefits
- 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.
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans.
- Continuing education and advancement opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
