Welding Engineer

Persona AI Inc•Houston, TX

About The Position

Persona AI is developing and commercializing rugged, multi-purpose humanoid robots that perform real work. Persona’s founding team has a decades-long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and product development delivering robust hardware that has touched the stars, worked miles below the surface of the ocean, and even roamed Disney Parks. Our mission is focused squarely on shipping beautiful, reliable products at massive scale, while building a customer-focused team to achieve these aims. We are looking for a Welding Engineer to join our Applications team who has a strong understanding of what it takes to perform high quality welds through manual and robotic welding processes. But you want to deploy that knowledge to a new platform, the humanoid robot. In short, we need someone to own the welding aspects of our application development.

Requirements

M.S., B.S. in Welding Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or Manufacturing Engineering.
5+ years of experience in a welding operations role in heavy equipment manufacturing.
Hands-on experience with MIG, GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding) and FCAW ( Flux-core Arc Welding) welding processes across a range of materials and welding positions.
Ability to thrive operating in a fast paced engineering environment with a lot of autonomy.
Strong ability to create documentation, welding processes, and reports to aid in certification and qualification.
Comfort with ambiguity and first-of-kind applications. This role requires building processes from scratch, not maintaining established ones.

Nice To Haves

Strong working knowledge of industry welding codes, standards, and the required documentation for certification and qualification.
Experience designing and implementing robotic welding algorithms such as touch sensing, through-the-arc seam tracking, and laser seam tracking.
Experience with verification testing of weld path accuracy and repeatability.
Operational experience in robotic welding or in demanding industrial environments.
Project management experience.

Responsibilities

Develop and refine motion paths for the welding humanoid robot.
Optimize weld parameters (voltage, amperage, shielding gas) to minimize thermal distortion and maximize penetration.
Collaborate with governing bodies to develop standards and certification processes for the humanoid robot.
Identify required sensors and tooling for performing welding tasks.
Translate welding domain knowledge into requirements for perception, manipulation, and controls teams.