The hands of a humanoid robot are yours to design.
Your Role & Responsibilities
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Own the end-effector strategy across different industrial robotics applications.
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Analyze customer workflows and operational requirements to identify the most suitable endeffector solutions.
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Evaluate and select commercially available end-effectors including grippers, suction systems, hooks, tool changers, robotic hands, cameras, and specialized tooling.
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Drive standardization and platform thinking by reducing the number of end-effector variants while maximizing use-case coverage.
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Define requirements for future end-effector solutions based on customer needs, product requirements, and engineering constraints.
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Coordinate and manage relationships with external suppliers, technology partners, and development vendors.
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Support feasibility studies, proof-of-concepts, customer evaluations, and pilot deployments.
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Define evaluation criteria, benchmarking methodologies, and trade-off analyses for endeffector technologies.
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Develop business cases and technical recommendations for buy-vs-build decisions.
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Track emerging technologies and market trends in manipulation, grasping, vacuum handling, tactile sensing, dexterous hands, and industrial tooling.
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Ensure successful integration of selected end-effectors into the robotic platform and deployment workflows.
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Contribute to the development of a long-term manipulation and tooling roadmap.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
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BSc/MSc in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation Engineering, or a related field.
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5+ years of experience in robotics, automation, industrial tooling, end-of-arm tooling, application engineering, or solutions engineering.
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Strong understanding of robotic manipulation systems and industrial automation.
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Experience working with grippers, vacuum systems, robotic hands, tool changers, or similar end-effectors.
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Experience evaluating and integrating third-party hardware solutions.
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Strong systems-engineering mindset with the ability to balance technical and business considerations.
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Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
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Ability to translate customer needs into technical requirements and actionable engineering decisions.
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Familiarity with any of ROS2, robot kinematics, manipulation/grasp planning, controls, force control, tactile sensing, or dexterous manipulation is a plus.
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