AI Applications Engineer (Glen Cove, NY)

The role

The AI Applications Engineer will design, build, and deploy AI-enabled robotic solutions. You will work with customers to identify production leverage, build proofs of concept, and travel to sites for installation and commissioning.

What you will do

• Identify where AI creates leverage in customer production processes
• Design and build proofs of concept to validate solutions
• Develop documentation, sample code, and integration guides
• Travel to customer sites to install, configure, and commission robotic cells
• Own full integration including camera placement, model deployment, and I/O configuration
• Troubleshoot on-site until solutions work
• Train customer operators and engineers on AI capabilities
• Feed real-world deployment learnings back to engineering and product teams
• Work with broader teams on feature testing and platform expansion
• Help build the internal knowledge base on AI-enabled applications

Required qualifications

• Robot programming proficiency or adjacent software experience
• Prior robotics knowledge
• Surface-level fluency in ML models and techniques
• Technical proficiency in an engineering environment
• Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically
• Mechanical Design (pneumatics, camera mounts, end-of-arm tooling)
• Electrical Design (custom board fabrication, wiring relays and solenoids)
• Machine Vision (camera and lens selection and deployment)

Nice to have

• Experience with collaborative robots (UR, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB, or similar)
• Hands-on work with vision systems in a production or lab environment (Cognex, Basler, FLIR, or similar)
• Familiarity with ROS or other robotics middleware
• Background in a manufacturing or industrial automation environment
• Experience at a startup

Benefits

• Employee Stock Options
• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)

About the company

Standard Bots is building the next generation of industrial robots. They are the largest U.S. industrial robotics company by robots shipped.