Warehouse Robotics Engineer
Rex.zone ↗
📍 United States, United States 🇺🇸
contract
senior
30
remote
Posted —
Key Skills
roboticsROS2PLCWMSPython
Industry
RoboticsIndustrial Automation
Job Description
Warehouse Robotics Engineer (Remote, US)
Design, deploy, and support robotic automation used in fulfillment centers and distribution operations. You will build robotics software and production-grade integrations connecting robots, sensors, PLCs, WMS/WES, and cloud services to improve throughput, safety, and uptime.
Key Responsibilities
Work on real warehouse robotics deployments with distributed teams, applying reliability, monitoring, and safety-first engineering practices.
Compensation
Competitive hourly rate: $30–$50/hr.
Design, deploy, and support robotic automation used in fulfillment centers and distribution operations. You will build robotics software and production-grade integrations connecting robots, sensors, PLCs, WMS/WES, and cloud services to improve throughput, safety, and uptime.
Key Responsibilities
- Own robotics integration from lab to warehouse: commissioning, configuration, rollout planning
- Develop and maintain robotics software components (ROS2 nodes, drivers, state machines, tools)
- Implement interfaces to PLCs, scanners, conveyor controls, safety controllers, and industrial networks
- Improve navigation, task allocation, and motion performance using telemetry, logs, and replay
- Build test harnesses, simulation checks, and regression suites for robot behaviors and edge cases
- Define QA protocols for deployments, updates, and incident response; build runbooks
- Create dashboards for fleet monitoring: uptime, cycle time, error rates, battery health, safety events
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Diagnose production incidents using structured root-cause analysis; support critical launches/on-call
- 5+ years in robotics, automation, or industrial software engineering (or equivalent)
- Strong programming in Python and/or C++
- Hands-on experience with ROS/ROS2 or robotics middleware
- Integration experience with WMS/WES/WCS and industrial controls (PLC, OPC UA, Modbus, Ethernet/IP)
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Familiarity with SLAM/localization/mapping/path planning and production debugging practices
Work on real warehouse robotics deployments with distributed teams, applying reliability, monitoring, and safety-first engineering practices.
Compensation
Competitive hourly rate: $30–$50/hr.
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