Systems Engineer - Robotic Piece Picking

AutoStore™•Salem, OR

About The Position

AutoStore™ holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company. AutoStore uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever, with minimal environmental impact. That’s how we help brands exceed customer expectations. We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries, and we grow continuously as a community of employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and connected technologies. Automation should make life easier, and by listening carefully to our community, we innovate to meet the industry’s most complex needs. With AutoStore™, brands gain speed, efficiency, and improved workplaces. And much more floor space. AutoStore – moving things forward. The Role: We are looking for a Robotic Piece Picking (RPP) Systems Engineer to play a critical role in shaping and scaling AutoStore’s robotic piece picking solutions. This is a subject matter expert with hands-on technical role that sits at the intersection of customer engagement, system architecture, and execution. In this role, you will act as the primary technical authority for robotic piece picking solutions, working closely with customers to understand their operational challenges and translating those needs into robust, scalable system architectures and enhancing RPP product portfolio. You will be the technical lead from concept through deployment, ensuring alignment across robotics, software, controls, and integration teams. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex real-world automation problems, leading technical conversations with customers, and turning advanced robotics into reliable, production-ready systems.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in robotic piece picking, ASRS, or advanced warehouse automation systems.
Strong background in system engineering, design for complex automation systems.
Hands-on experience with robotics, material handling systems, and automation software, including system-level trade-offs.
Solid understanding of warehouse operations, order fulfillment flows, and performance metrics.
Ability to lead technical discussions with customers, translate business needs into engineering requirements, and communicate complex concepts clearly.
Proven experience supporting pre-sales, proposals, and customer-facing technical engagements.
Comfortable working across disciplines including robotics, AI, software, controls, and deployment.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to break down complex system flows and data into actionable designs.
Willingness to travel to customer sites to support design validation, technical review and hands-on workshops.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating automation systems with WMS, WCS, WES, ERP, and customer IT environments.
Experience with AI-driven perception, grasping, or optimization systems for piece picking.
Experience scaling robotic solutions from pilot to production environments.
Background in safety, performance testing, and operational validation of robotic systems.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Integration Own system-level technical intent from early design through deployment, ensuring alignment across engineering, deployment, and operations teams.
Define system architectures covering interactions between robots, AI and optimization layers, control software, and external systems.
Design and document integrations with customer IT systems, including WMS, WCS, WES, ERP, and other automation platforms using APIs, events, and data models.
Collaborate closely with robotics, software, controls, and deployment engineers to validate technical feasibility and system behavior.
System Architecture Serve as the primary technical expert for robotic piece picking engagements, working directly with customers to understand their business objectives, operational flows, and constraints.
Translate customer requirements into end-to-end system architectures that balance performance, scalability, cost, and risk, while aligning with AutoStore’s robotic piece picking product portfolio.
Support pre-sales team to analyze customer operations to evaluate optimized robotic piece picking solutions.
Evaluate system architectures based on value, cost, functionality, feasibility, and operational risk.
Sales, Proposals, and Competitive Positioning Support pre-sales activities by presenting technical solutions in a clear, engaging, and credible manner to customers.
Lead technical discussions during customer workshops, solution reviews, and competitive evaluations.
Provide technical context and differentiation during competitive comparison discussions.
Deployment and Operational Support Support system configuration, testing, validation, and operational readiness, including UAT and performance testing.
Analyze system performance data, logs, and operational metrics to identify bottlenecks, edge cases, and improvement opportunities.
Documentation and Standards Create and maintain technical documentation such as system diagrams, process flows, solution descriptions, and requirements specifications.
Contribute to design standards, best practices, MRS and project documentation for robotic piece picking solutions.

Benefits

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
Additional benefits include Group Life Insurance, Voluntary Additional Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance programs, and more!

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