Turnkey Application Engineer (Detroit)

Job Description

Inbolt brings intelligence to industrial robots with real-time 3D vision. This role owns end-to-end turnkey projects - from design to deployment - building, commissioning, and testing robotic cells while helping scale the Applications Engineering function.

As a Turnkey Application Engineer, you will translate customer needs into robust automation solutions, validate feasibility, drive delivery on-site, and turn field learnings into repeatable playbooks and product feedback.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Design & quoting: Design and simulate turnkey solutions; ensure proposed solutions meet customer requirements; conduct technical validation and drive internal go/no-go decisions.
• Deployment execution: Lead commissioning and rollouts at customer sites, from first install to stable production.
• Project management: Own the end-to-end project cycle, managing customer relationships, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to deliver successfully.
• Playbooks & standards: Build repeatable deployment processes, checklists, documentation, and training for internal and customer teams.
• Scale the function: Turn the playbook into a repeatable process and help grow a team as installs and revenue increase.
• Field feedback loop: Translate field learnings into product requirements and prioritization inputs.
  
  

⭐️ What success looks like (first 6 to 12 months)

• Faster design-to-quote and technical validation, with a robust process to select and validate the right projects.
• Efficiently managed projects with documentation and tools that accelerate deployments.
• Consistently successful FAT and SAT, leading to stable production go-lives.
  
  

✍️ Position details

• Start date: ASAP
• Location: Detroit, MI (US)
• Contract: Full-time
• Team: Engineering
  
  

✨ Benefits

• 📍 Detroit-based role
• ✈️ Travel across the US (customer sites)
• 📈 Stock-options package
• 🤝 Team-building events and regular off-sites
  
  

Preferred Experience

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 we are looking for

• 3 years as a field-based robotics or machine vision application engineer.
• Experience with robot programming (e.g., Universal Robots, FANUC, KUKA, Yaskawa, ABB).
• Experience with station simulation software (e.g., Process Simulate, RoboDK, RoboGuide, or equivalent).
• Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships with customers and internal teams.
• Ability to travel within the US.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements.
  
  

💫 Additional plus

• Experience in industrial automation, automotive manufacturing, computer vision, or related domains.
• PLC programming.
  
  

Recruitment process

• First call with Max
• Technical interview with a Lead Robotics Application
• Interview with Albane
• Cultural Fit interview with a Rudy and/or Louis
• Reference check
  
  

Who are they?

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, can be set up in under 30 minutes and delivers the lowest latency on the market, instantly transforming 3D data into robot instructions.

With €20M raised, we are headquartered in Paris and work with leading automotive industries across Europe and the US.