Senior Applications & Solutions Engineer Autonomous Manipulative Mobile Robots (AMMR)
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
Gilching, Germany
12 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Gilching, Germany
Tech stack
Systems Engineering
Computer Engineering
Robotic Automation Software
Systems Architecture
Systems Integration
Mobile Robots
Job description
- Define and drive the validation, verification, and technology readiness strategy for AMMR solutions, including KPIs, acceptance criteria, and deployment milestones from pilot to commercial scale.
- Own the technical success of AMMR pilots and early deployments, leading troubleshooting, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement activities.
- Develop and maintain reference architectures, solution templates, and engineering standards for AMMR applications across key market segments.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable solution concepts, system specifications, and interface definitions, ensuring feasibility, performance, safety, and repeatability.
- Drive the development of new applications and solution variants through structured feedback to Product Management and R&D, accelerating product maturity and adoption.
- Act as the primary technical interface between Product Management, R&D, Global and Local Engineering teams, and customers, enabling successful deployments through best practices, documentation, and training.
- Lead and mentor AMMR Application Engineers, promoting engineering excellence, standardization, and reuse of validated solutions.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Systems engineering?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Automation, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in robotics, industrial automation, autonomous systems, or complex electromechanical products, with a background in application engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or technical project delivery.
- Proven ability to translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions, including system architectures, interface definitions, and deployment concepts.
- Strong systems engineering mindset with hands-on experience integrating robotic systems, controls, software, safety systems, and industrial IT/OT environments.
- Experience supporting pilots, proof-of-concepts, and early product deployments, including validation, troubleshooting, and performance assessment.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across Product Management, R&D, engineering, operations, and customer teams, providing technical leadership and mentoring where required.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with willingness to travel up to 50% to support deployments, commissioning, testing, and validation activities.
Benefits & conditions
Pulled from the full job description
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance program, * Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
- Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- Vision benefit
- Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
- Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
- Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
- Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
- Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- Employee discount program
Retirement
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
Time off
ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Vacation is provided based on years of service for hourly and non-exempt positions. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
About the company
At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.
This role sits within ABB's Robotics business, a leading global robotics company. We're entering an exciting new chapter as we've announced the plan for SoftBank Group to acquire ABB Robotics. SoftBank is a globally recognized technology group and investor/operator focused on AI, robotics, and next-generation computing. By joining us now, you'll be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of robotics-working alongside world-class experts in a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment.
This Position reports to:
Portfolio and Solutions Manager for AMR
In this role, you will help scale ABB's Autonomous Manipulative Mobile Robotics (AMMR) technology across global customer applications. Working at the intersection of product development, customer operations, and solution delivery, you will transform innovative robotics technology into robust, repeatable, and commercially successful solutions.
This is a unique opportunity to influence the evolution of a breakthrough robotics offering, working closely with customers, Product Management, and R&D to shape the future of autonomous mobile manipulation.