What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Robotics Application (Detroit) position at Inbolt?
Job Description
Inbolt brings intelligence to industrial robots with real-time 3D vision. This role owns the US delivery engine: faster deployments, higher reliability in production, and a tight feedback loop to product and engineering.
You will be the leader of our US Applications Engineering team (player-coach), responsible for execution in factories and building the processes and team to scale
🎯 Responsabilities
✨ Benefits
Inbolt values end-to-end ownership, high rigor, and a hands-on curiosity. We move fast while staying precise, with a proactive, autonomous, results-driven mindset and strong collaboration with engineering teams.
What Success Looks Like (first 6 To 12 Months)
Inbolt is a robotics software company developing a real-time industrial robot guidance solution based on 3D vision and AI. Our mission is to create a vision system for industrial robots that enables robust real-time decision-making for any type of environment.
Our flagship product, Inbolt, is a real-time industrial robot guidance solution designed for ease of use, flexibility, and performance. It can be set up in under 30 minutes, and delivers the lowest latency on the market, instantly transforming 3D data into robot instructions. Whether automating moving lines or static workstations, Inbolt improves productivity and ROI by eliminating expensive fixtures and enabling multi-reference processing, making automation more efficient and cost-effective.
Inbolt integrates a 3D camera with a robotic arm and our proprietary software, Inbolt Studio, allowing seamless implementation for industrial automation.
With €20M raised, we are headquartered in Paris and work with leading automotive industries across Europe and the US. Learn more about us here.
Inbolt brings intelligence to industrial robots with real-time 3D vision. This role owns the US delivery engine: faster deployments, higher reliability in production, and a tight feedback loop to product and engineering.
You will be the leader of our US Applications Engineering team (player-coach), responsible for execution in factories and building the processes and team to scale
🎯 Responsabilities
- Deployment execution: Lead commissioning and rollouts at customer sites, from first install to stable production.
- Production reliability: Own escalations, root-cause analysis, and permanent fixes with Engineering.
- Playbooks and standards: Build repeatable deployment processes, checklists, documentation, and training for internal teams and partners.
- Customer-facing technical leadership: Build trust with plant teams, integrators, OEMs, and automation engineers.
- Team leadership: Hire, coach, and structure the US Applications Engineering team as volume scales.
- Field feedback loop: Turn field learnings into product requirements, prioritization inputs, and measurable improvements.
- Start Date: ASAP
- Location: based in or open to relocate to Detroit, Michigan.
- Reporting to: Albane Dersy, COO & co-founder
✨ Benefits
- Competitive base salary (75th percentile)
- Generous Stock-options package of our Series A round
- 401(k) match
- Health, dental and vision
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and parental leave
- Compensatory leave
- Team-building events and regular off-sites
- Mileage allowance
Inbolt values end-to-end ownership, high rigor, and a hands-on curiosity. We move fast while staying precise, with a proactive, autonomous, results-driven mindset and strong collaboration with engineering teams.
What Success Looks Like (first 6 To 12 Months)
- Deployments get faster and more predictable (time-to-production decreases).
- Fewer site emergencies (lower incident rate, faster MTTR when incidents happen).
- Higher production reliability (uptime and cycle consistency improve).
- Engineering gets clear, prioritized feedback with evidence, logs, and reproducible cases.
- The US team becomes a machine: strong hiring bar, clear ownership, clean process.
- A minimum of 6 years as a field-based robotics or machine vision application engineer.
- Solid experience coding in Python.
- Flexibility with changing requirements in an evolving and fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to travel internationally.
- Ability to build strong relationships with customers and other teams within the company.
- Experience in Industrial Automation, Automotive industrial manufacturing, Computer Vision or similar is a plus
- Strong team spirit and collaboration skills.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities.
- Enthusiastic, hands-on approach.
- Proactive and autonomous with a “get it done” attitude and a drive to exceed objectives.
- First call Python session (Google Colab) with Max
- Technical interview with Jean
- Interview with Albane
- Cultural Fit interview with a Rudy and Louis
- Reference check
Inbolt is a robotics software company developing a real-time industrial robot guidance solution based on 3D vision and AI. Our mission is to create a vision system for industrial robots that enables robust real-time decision-making for any type of environment.
Our flagship product, Inbolt, is a real-time industrial robot guidance solution designed for ease of use, flexibility, and performance. It can be set up in under 30 minutes, and delivers the lowest latency on the market, instantly transforming 3D data into robot instructions. Whether automating moving lines or static workstations, Inbolt improves productivity and ROI by eliminating expensive fixtures and enabling multi-reference processing, making automation more efficient and cost-effective.
Inbolt integrates a 3D camera with a robotic arm and our proprietary software, Inbolt Studio, allowing seamless implementation for industrial automation.
With €20M raised, we are headquartered in Paris and work with leading automotive industries across Europe and the US. Learn more about us here.