Applications Engineering Manager (West Coast)

The role

You will manage and develop a team of Applications Engineers across a West Coast territory. You will perform hands-on technical work including designing solutions, commissioning cells, and supporting installs.

What you will do

• Manage and develop a team of Applications Engineers across your territory
• Own capacity planning and workload distribution
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance conversations, and development planning
• Own the applications engineering function for your territory from pre-sales to post-install
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex integrations
• Partner with the Regional Sales Manager on territory priorities and customer strategy
• Maintain strong relationships with key customer accounts
• Design solutions, review integrations, commission cells, and support installs
• Review and sign off on solution designs, POCs, and integration plans
• Define and enforce standards for documentation, handoffs, and commissioning

Required qualifications

• Fluent across mechanical, electrical, and software: PLC programming and ladder logic, pneumatics, DC power systems, robot programming, Python scripting, CAD
• 5+ years of hands-on applications engineering, systems integration, or automation engineering experience
• 2+ years of people management or team lead experience
• Strong customer-facing presence
• Experience managing a distributed team or territory
• Comfort with up to 25% domestic travel
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline or equivalent hands-on experience

Nice to have

• Prior experience with collaborative robots (UR, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB, or similar)
• Background scaling an applications engineering or field engineering function
• Experience with vision systems, force/torque sensing, or custom end-of-arm tooling
• Familiarity with machine tending, palletizing, welding, or assembly automation applications

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.