Senior Robotics Systems Engineer

Mayo Clinic • Rochester, MN

3d • $141,024 - $204,526

About The Position

The Senior Robotics Systems Engineer owns complex, high-ambiguity integration and platform engineering and provides technical leadership across concurrent engagements and enterprise robotics platform capabilities. The role independently defines and delivers engineering approaches for multi-vendor integration, interoperability, commissioning, and reliability at enterprise scale; resolves difficult deployment problems; and sets technical direction within a domain such as fleet systems or integration. As a platform and interoperability expert, the engineer 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 that provides functional and technical leadership while modeling respect, teamwork, and a commitment to developing others in service of patients, staff, and the organization.

Mayo Clinic enterprise robotics spans clinical and surgical robotics as well as service and mobile robotics—including logistics, transport, environmental services, and patient-facing platforms. These systems are delivered through multi-vendor fleets on a shared foundation of connectivity, data, security, and standards, and are evolving from sensor-driven, deterministic robots toward AI-driven autonomous systems.

Mayo Clinic offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefit plans, and continuing education and advancement opportunities. Employees work across locations including Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; Rochester, Minnesota; Mayo Clinic Health System campuses throughout Midwestern communities; and international locations.

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 and healthcare deployment experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master's or doctoral degree in a related field.
• Relevant advanced certifications; examples include 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.
• Shape conditions of purchase as a platform and interoperability expert.
• 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

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive benefit plans.
• Medical coverage with multiple 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior