Senior Automation Engineer, Robotics

Founded in 2023, Mach Industries is a rapidly growing defense technology company focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. At the core of our mission is the commitment to delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems that enhance the strategic capabilities of the United States and its allies. With a workforce of approximately 350 employees, we operate with startup agility and ambition.

Our vision is to redefine the future of warfare through cutting-edge manufacturing, innovation at speed, and unwavering focus on national security. We are dedicated to solving the next generation of warfare with lethal systems that deter kinetic conflict and protect global security.

Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer, Robotics to develop and deploy our industrial robotics platform across manufacturing.

You will establish standardized architectures for industrial robots and collaborative robots, develop robotic automation for pilot production lines, and create the software, hardware, safety, and integration standards used to scale robotics across Mach factories.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will design robotic cells, program and commission robots, develop ROS 2-based robotics applications, integrate vision and end-of-arm tooling, and work directly with manufacturing engineers and systems integrators to take automation from concept through production.

• Develop Mach's standardized robotics platform for industrial robots and cobots.

• Define robot hardware, software, communication, safety, and integration standards for production equipment.

• Design, program, integrate, and commission robotic automation for pilot and production manufacturing systems.

• Develop reusable robotics software and architectures using ROS 2, finite state machines, behavior trees, and native industrial robot programming environments.

• Establish software engineering standards for robotics including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, version control, dependency management, and containerization.

• Develop standardized methods for robot software deployment, configuration management, releases, rollback, and recovery across production equipment.

• Design robotic cell architectures including robots, cobots, end-of-arm tooling, fixturing, vision systems, sensors, guarding, and material handling.

• Develop and integrate applications including machine tending, assembly, dispensing, material handling, inspection, welding, and other manufacturing processes.

• Integrate robots and ROS 2 applications with Beckhoff TwinCAT controls systems and establish standardized PLC-to-robot interfaces.

• Integrate 2D/3D machine vision, force/torque sensing, servo tooling, and other advanced robotic peripherals.

• Develop standards for robot calibration, TCP definition, coordinate frames, path optimization, fault handling, recovery, and repeatability validation.

• Partner with controls and safety engineers to develop safe robotic systems including guarding, interlocks, safe motion, scanners, and collaborative applications.

• Develop simulation and virtual commissioning workflows to validate robotic applications before deployment to physical equipment.

• Translate successful pilot systems into robotics standards and specifications that can be deployed by external systems integrators.

• Review and support integrator robotic designs, programming, simulation, FAT, SAT, and commissioning.

• Troubleshoot robotic, mechanical, controls, vision, networking, and software issues during equipment startup and production ramp.

• Optimize robot paths, cycle times, reliability, fault