Sr. Robotics Engineer - Integration

Sr. Robotics Engineer - Integration

Work Arrangement:
Onsite - This position requires the employee to be onsite full-time. The primary work location will be in Warren, MI.

The Role:
We are looking for a Robotics Engineer - Integration to join our Robotics Technology Development Team within the Autonomous Robotics Center organization. This role is focused on building a reproducible, deployable and efficient robotics solution to perform specific tasks while improving ergonomics, reducing lineside material-handling labor, protecting throughput, and creating a standardized deployment pattern across plants.

This engineer will work across requirements consolidation, concept development, detailed design, build and integration, pilot commissioning, validation, and deployment standardization. The role spans robotics, perception, EOAT, safety, controls, plant integration, and pilot-scale execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robotics software systems that integrate capabilities from multiple research and engineering teams into a unified end-to-end pipeline.
• Own the architecture and implementation of the information flow across perception, planning, environmental understanding, controls, and execution systems.
• Build and maintain ROS-based software pipelines for real-world and simulation-based robotics applications.
• Define software interfaces, message structures, data contracts, and system interactions required for reliable multi-module integration.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate research outputs into scalable, maintainable, and production-ready software components.
• Develop and integrate components related to perception, motion planning, situational/environmental awareness, robot control, and system coordination.
• Lead end-to-end system bring-up, integration, debugging, and validation across simulation and physical hardware environments.
• Create and execute test strategies for module-level, subsystem-level, and end-to-end validation.
• Establish robust logging, monitoring, diagnostics, and observability mechanisms for deployed robotics systems.
• Support containerized and reproducible deployment workflows using Docker-based environments and modern software delivery practices.
• Improve reliability, maintainability, and scalability of the robotics stack through thoughtful architecture, tooling, and development standards.
• Document system behavior, design decisions, integration patterns, and deployment workflows to support long-term reuse and team collaboration

Success Criteria:

• Delivering a reliable end-to-end robotics integration pipeline that connects work from multiple technical domains into a cohesive system.
• Creating clear and scalable information flow across perception, planning, controls, and execution.
• Enabling robust testing, validation, and repeatable deployment in both simulation and real-world environments.
• Improving system observability through strong logging, monitoring, and diagnostics, and producing maintainable, reusable software patterns that accelerate future robotics development and deployment.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in robotics software or systems integration.
• Strong background in AI model deployment, ROS/ROS2, and hardware-software integration.
• Experience working with collaborative robots, sensors, and real-world task workflows.
• Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Excellent system-level debugging, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience with robots (UR, Fanuc, etc.), simulation (e.g., Gazebo, Isaac Sim) and HIL/SIL testing.
• Demonstrated success integrating and deploying prototype robotic systems.
• Understanding of industrial safety, compliance standards, and risk-mitigation practices.