Senior Robotics Solutions Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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💻 Solutions Engineer

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PackageX

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏨 Hospitality

Consulting • Healthcare • Hospitality

PackageX is a company focused on revolutionizing logistics through automation and digitization. It offers solutions for automating package and inventory receiving processes in warehouses, stores, and commercial buildings. PackageX's platform utilizes advanced scanning technology and integrates with various systems via APIs, enabling enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and visibility. Their offerings include label scanning and bill of lading APIs to streamline package management and fulfillments, aiming to empower logistics teams across sectors, including warehousing, higher education, and hospitality, with AI-driven workflows and connected data sources. The company's mission is to modernize logistics operations, providing real-time updates and reducing manual effort in package handling processes.

📋 Description

• Lead technical discovery onsite at enterprise distribution centers • Establish equipment and controls baselines for automation cells, including robot model, controller and firmware, I/O map, safety architecture, cameras, sensors, cycle times, throughput, and physical constraints • Design, build, and commission control and motion logic for industrial palletizing and sortation cells • Implement motion sequencing, pick and place, stacking and pallet-pattern logic, singulation, and recovery from partial or failed cycles • Take ownership of installed and operating systems • Own functional safety end to end, including risk assessment, safeguarding, emergency stops, interlocks, safe speed and separation, and customer documentation • Build command and telemetry interfaces between PackageX, robot controllers, PLCs, fleet managers, conveyors, and sortation controls • Use ROS 2, vendor SDKs, controller APIs, HTTPS/REST, MQTT, OPC UA, and industrial fieldbus as appropriate • Convert vision-model classification and inspection outputs into safe, timely machine actions • Design handling for model uncertainty, incorrect predictions, dropped links, partial task completion, and discrepancies between reported and physical state • Build operator views for robot-driven work and human exception handling • Produce documentation, test coverage, and internal training • Represent PackageX technically with customers and collaborate with distribution directors, industrial engineers, IT leadership, plant engineers, maintenance technicians, and EHS teams • Develop reusable PackageX robotics capabilities while identifying bespoke cell requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Production experience programming and commissioning industrial robotic arms, including Yaskawa Motoman, Fanuc, ABB, KUKA, or Universal Robots • Fluency in robot motion, including kinematics, frames, tool center points, path planning, singularities, payload and reach limits, collision avoidance, and palletizing/depalletizing pattern logic • Experience using teach pendants in production • Functional safety knowledge, including ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066 where applicable, risk assessment, safety-rated monitored stop, category and performance-level reasoning, and safety PLCs • Controls integration experience with PLCs, industrial protocols, sensors, conveyors, sortation, and working-cell electrical systems • ROS or ROS 2 production experience • Strong Python and C++ on the robot side • Production services experience in TypeScript, Node, Go, or Python, with event-driven integration • Experience with REST, gRPC, MQTT, and WebSockets • Ability to build a functional operator UI in React or similar • Ability to reason about computer-vision latency, confidence thresholds, false positives, and uncertainty in relation to machine movement • Experience delivering onsite for enterprise customers • Ability to work around customer shift patterns • Ability to document work for engineers and customer executives • Ability to assess scope feasibility and communicate constraints with evidence • Ability to distinguish reusable robotics platform capabilities from bespoke cell implementations • Ability to evaluate technical choices against commercial constraints

🏖️ Benefits

• Three-month contract term