Senior Robotics Automation and Controls Engineer

The role

You will lead the technical direction of a growing team expanding automation across the manufacturing organization. You will design and implement robotic systems and architect factory automation solutions to improve manufacturing processes.

What you will do

• Designing and implementing robotic systems for welding, fabrication, material handling, and component inspection
• Supporting existing robotic systems through production simulation, offline programming, and deployment
• Architecting factory automation solutions that improve speed, quality, reliability, and efficiency

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years’ experience with programming Fanuc, Kuka, ABB or similar robotics control systems with motion planning, task allocation, and synchronization algorithms for multi-robot systems
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement industrial safety systems including risk assessments, job hazard analysis, and programming safety PLCs
• Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate technical risks in complex systems
• Experience producing exceptional electrical and pneumatics schematics and work instructions

Nice to have

• Working with factory SCADA and analytic software, such as Inductive Ignition or Grafana
• Experience in writing PLC code; developing, activating, and troubleshooting PLCs (preferably Beckhoff, but Siemens and AB Rockwell is ok)
• Working with factory SCADA systems, such as Inductive Ignition

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Generous PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend

About the company

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The company is developing the Terran R vehicle to deliver customer payloads to orbit.