Principal Automation and Robotics Engineer

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Job Function:
R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:
Robotics

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:
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We are searching for the best talent for a Principal Automation and Robotics Engineer to be located in Spring House, PA.

Purpose: The Principal Automation and Robotics Engineer owns the engineering strategy for the physical layer of autonomous discovery platforms.

The role establishes how robots, workcells, controls, sensors, safety systems, facilities, utilities, and vendor equipment should be designed and integrated so scientific workflows can scale across multiple automated platforms.

The Principal Engineer will serve as the senior engineering authority for the physical automation architecture of self-driving discovery laboratories.

This role defines robotics, controls, safety, facility integration, technical standards, vendor governance, engineering simulation strategy, reliability, maintainability, serviceability, and industrialization approaches required for scalable AI-native laboratory automation.

This role is paired with the Principal Laboratory Automation Scientist.

The engineer leads the physical automation architecture; the scientist leads the scientific workflow architecture.

The two roles jointly define integrated readiness for self-driving laboratories.

You will be responsible for:

Physical Automation Reference Architecture


* Defining robotics and physical automation reference architecture for multi-workcell SDL platforms, including robot cells, AMR or track routing, workcell interfaces, custom fixtures, transfer stations, sensor strategies, machine-state concepts, control boundarie...