Robotics and Automation Integration Engineer

When to Use

Commission robot and automation cells—layout, sequence of operations, cycle time targets, recovery modes
Integrate industrial arms, cobots, gantries with PLCs, PC control, and cell peripherals at the I/O and protocol layer
Connect AMRs/AGVs to fleet managers, traffic zones, dock stations, and warehouse/line handoff points
Wire safety interfaces—e-stops, light curtains, safety relays, safe torque off, reset permissives (not SIL certification)
Map fieldbuses and industrial Ethernet—Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, Modbus; device profiles, I/O lists, GSD/EDS
Configure robot OEM integration—Ethernet/IP, Profinet device, native SDK/RPC bridges, teach-pendant workflow hooks
Integrate vision, conveyors, sortation, palletizing—trigger/handshake, reject paths, jam and fault propagation
Define MES/WMS/ERP handoffs—order release, completion, traceability, and exception events at the cell boundary
Run FAT/SAT integration—I/O forcing, dry cycle, production trial, punch lists, as-built documentation
Bridge ROS/ROS2 to factory systems where used for interoperability—not full autonomy stack design