Conveyor Engineering Lead

🕒 October 19

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $127k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Berkshire Grey

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Logistics • Manufacturing • Artificial Intelligence

Berkshire Grey is an AI-enabled robotics company that designs, manufactures, and deploys integrated robotic hardware and software systems to automate warehouse and supply-chain tasks such as trailer unloading, robotic picking, put-wall consolidation, package sortation, and store replenishment. Their solutions combine computer vision, specialized grippers, and machine-learning software to increase throughput, reduce labor dependency, and integrate into existing enterprise operations for retailers, e-commerce, and logistics providers.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain standard conveyor architecture, reusable building blocks, layout rules, and interface requirements for the Stride product platform • Establish and document technical standards, reference layouts, design templates, and simulation assumptions • Lead simulation, system behavior, and trade study efforts evaluating conveyor topology, accumulation, buffering, station-to-station flow, equipment selection, footprint, cost, throughput, robustness, bottlenecks, and layout alternatives • Develop and maintain simulation models, reusable simulation components, and validation methods • Partner with Controls and Software teams to align conveyor architecture and simulation models with sensing, PLC/control logic, fault recovery, traffic management, and system behavior • Partner with Applications Engineering on solution viability reviews • Partner with Solutions Architecture on design guidance, layout constraints, and customer-facing system layouts • Evaluate third-party conveyor components, vendor capabilities, and integration approaches • Translate deployment feedback, customer constraints, field issues, and manufacturing lessons into improved standards and productized design updates • Maintain conveyor and simulation documentation, including standard layouts, interface control documents, design guides, modeling assumptions, validation methods, and engineering decision records • Provide technical leadership and mentorship in conveyor optimization, simulation methods, and cross-functional design decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with conveyor design, accumulation, buffering, merges, diverts, station interfaces, equipment utilization, and material flow constraints • Experience with AutoCAD or a similar 2D/3D layout tool • Experience with Emulate3D / Sim3D by Rockwell Automation or a similar simulation/modeling tool • Strong understanding of throughput, bottlenecks, service access, safety, installation, maintainability, MTBF/MTTR, OEE, and operational robustness • Ability to make clear engineering tradeoffs across performance, cost, footprint, manufacturability, serviceability, customer requirements, and system behavior • Experience providing technical leadership to engineers, including setting direction, reviewing work, mentoring team members, and coordinating execution across disciplines • Ability to define and communicate technical strategy, assumptions, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Demonstrated ability to work effectively across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, operations, applications, and solutions architecture teams • PLC experience or strong familiarity with industrial controls systems • Experience working with conveyor vendors, systems integrators, installation teams, customer site engineering teams, or automation partners • Experience developing standards, design guides, templates, or reusable engineering tools • Experience with Python and/or C++ for simulation, automation, data analysis, tooling, or performance profiling • Experience with Nvidia Omniverse, digital twins, virtual commissioning, MBSE tools, or other system modeling frameworks • Experience developing reusable simulation components, APIs, SDKs, or modeling tools • Experience with robotics simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, software-in-the-loop testing, or production software integration • Experience designing conveyor systems for robotic automation, fulfillment, parcel, logistics, manufacturing, or warehouse automation environments • Experience integrating conveyor systems with robots, sorters, scanners, sensors, PLCs, safety systems, WMS/WES/WCS platforms, or customer facility controls • Familiarity with Git, Jira, Linux / Ubuntu environments, CI/CD practices, code reviews, or modern software development workflows • Bachelor's degree in a related technical field is preferred