Senior Applications & Solutions Engineer – Autonomous Manipulative Mobile Robots (AMMR)

Jobdescription

For our client, an international pioneering technology company based in Zurich, we are looking for a motivated, proactive, and highly skilled Senior Applications & Solutions Engineer – Autonomous Manipulative Mobile Robots (AMMR).

General Information

• Start: By agreement

• Duration: Permanent, full-time position

• Workplace: Zurich, Switzerland

• Workload: 100%

• Remote/Home Office: Hybrid work model

• Travel Readiness: Up to 50% international travel required
  
  
  
  

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Validation & Strategy: Define and drive the validation, verification, and technology readiness strategy for AMMR solutions, establishing KPIs, acceptance criteria, and deployment milestones from pilot to commercial scale.

• Technical Success & Pilots: Own the technical success of AMMR pilots and early deployments by leading troubleshooting, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement activities.

• Architecture & Engineering Standards: Develop and maintain reference architectures, solution templates, and engineering standards for AMMR applications across key market segments.

• System Design: Translate customer requirements into scalable solution concepts, system specifications, and interface definitions to ensure feasibility, performance, safety, and repeatability.

• Product Evolution: Drive the development of new applications and solution variants by providing structured feedback to Product Management and R&D, accelerating product maturity and adoption.

• Stakeholder & Interface Management: Act as the primary technical interface between product development, internal regional engineering teams, and global customers to enable successful deployments through best practices, documentation, and training.

• Leadership & Mentoring: Lead and mentor junior AMMR Application Engineers, promoting engineering excellence, standardization, and the reuse of validated solutions.
  
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Academic Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Automation, Mechatronics, Mechanical/Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Professional Experience: 8+ years of hands-on experience in robotics, industrial automation, autonomous systems, or complex electromechanical products.

• Technical Expertise: Strong systems engineering mindset with proven experience integrating robotic systems, controls, software, safety systems, and industrial IT/OT environments.

• Solution Architecture: Demonstrated ability to translate complex customer requirements into scalable technical solutions, including system architectures, interface definitions, and deployment concepts.

• Project Execution: Proven track record supporting pilots, proof-of-concepts, and early product deployments, including system validation, technical troubleshooting, and performance assessment.

• Collaboration & Leadership: Excellent ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary global teams (R&D, operations, product management) and provide technical leadership or mentoring.

• Communication & Flexibility: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, combined with the flexibility and willingness to travel internationally up to 50% for deployment, testing, and commissioning activities.

Benefits

Health, Life & Disability

• Medical Plans: Choice between two medical plan options: a PPO plan (Copay Plan) OR a High Deductible Health Plan with a Health Savings Account (High Deductible Plan).

• Dental & Vision: Choice between two dental plan options (Core and Core Plus) along with a comprehensive vision benefit.

• Life & AD&D Insurance: Company-paid life insurance (2X base pay) and company-paid AD&D (1X base pay). Voluntary life and AD&D options are also available (100% employee paid up to maximums).

• Disability Coverage: Company-paid Short-Term Disability (up to 26 weeks) and company-paid Long-Term Disability (60% of pay, with the ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay).

• Supplemental Benefits: 100% employee-paid options including accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and pet insurance.

• Family & Well-being: Up to 6 weeks of parental leave, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and an employee discount program.

• Health Advocate Support: Access to resource navigation for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation, virtual health, and infertility/adoption support.
  
  

Retirement & Financial Success

• Savings Plan: 401k Savings Plan complemented by company contributions.

• Stock Options: Opportunity to participate in the Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP).