Mechatronics Engineer – Robotics & Grasping

The role

An Intermediate Mechatronics Engineer will design and build industrial vision guided robotic cells. You will own VuePort camera calibration, develop robot drivers, and take hardware products from concept to production.

What you will do

• Maintain and improve VuePort camera calibration methods and systems.
• Research, prototype, and benchmark new calibration methods and metrology techniques.
• Design and build next generation VuePort cameras, enclosures, and optics.
• Write and maintain robot drivers in C++ and Python for various robot brands.
• Tune motion profiles, cycle time, and vision-to-motion timing.
• Perform mechanical and electrical design for industrial cells including tooling, mounts, and wiring.
• Script experiments in Python to measure accuracy, repeatability, and cycle time.
• Contribute to prototyping, design-for-assembly, documentation, and supplier coordination.
• Diagnose field issues and perform root-cause analysis.

Required qualifications

• 3–6 years of hands-on mechatronics, robotics or automation engineering experience.
• A degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical or a related engineering discipline.
• Strong mechanical design skills with CAD tools.
• Experience taking a hardware product from prototype to production: DFM / DFA, supplier management and assembly documentation.
• Solid electrical design and integration skills: wiring, sensors, motor and actuator selection, panel layout, basic PLC / IO and electrical safety for industrial cells.
• Proficient in Python for test scripts, data analysis and tooling.
• Working ability in C++: you can read, debug and make contributions to a large C++ code base.
• A builder's mindset: you prototype quickly, test rigorously and document clearly.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in person at our Vancouver office and lab.

Nice to have

• SolidWorks preferred
• Experience building or maintaining a calibration pipeline.
• Familiarity with 2D machine vision cameras, lenses, lighting and optics.
• Experience writing robot drivers, or working with robot vendor SDKs and real-time communication.
• ROS / ROS 2, motion planning or kinematics experience.
• Hands-on experience with industrial robots (ABB, Fanuc, Yaskawa, Universal Robots or similar) and their programming or APIs.
• Understanding of calibration fundamentals: intrinsics, extrinsics, stereo, hand-eye and TCP calibration, and how to quantify accuracy and error stack-up.
• Field deployment, commissioning or bin-picking experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity for every employee
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Personalized development plans
• Team upskilling
• Dedicated time for innovation
• Fully equipped lab with real robots

About the company

Apera is a Vancouver-based company at the forefront of robotics, AI, and machine vision. They help manufacturers make factories more flexible and productive using 4D Vision software and hardware.