Employer: HDS Mercury, Inc.
Position: Engineering Manager, Robotic Systems & Systems Integration (job code 88703)
Duties:
- Develop and own system-level engineering requirements derived from market, business, and product needs.
- Architect complex mechatronic and AI-driven systems across mechanical, electrical, controls, and software domains.
- Create and maintain Theory of Operations documents defining how all subsystems interact.
- Define and manage system interface specifications, communication protocols, and system safety architecture.
- Lead development of data pipelines, GPU training environments, simulation frameworks, and digital asset curation for robotic AI systems.
- Direct system-level prototyping that integrates perception, planning, control, and real-time robotics operations.
- Ensure scalability, security, and reliability of AI-enabled robotic systems in fast-changing production environments.
- Work across mechanical, electrical, controls, vision, and software engineering to ensure all subsystems operate as a cohesive, unified system.
- Lead major design reviews, including FMEAs, system safety reviews, integration reviews, and readiness reviews.
- Partner with Product Management to create multi-year automation roadmaps and translate automation goals into system architecture.
- Lead system-level regulatory and safety compliance efforts including UL, CE, functional safety standards, and robot safety 13849/62061.
- Establish frameworks for system reliability, availability, maintainability (RAM), and quality metrics.
- Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team of robotics, AI systems, and mechatronics engineers.
- Mentor engineers beyond their individual disciplines to foster systems thinking.
- Champion innovation and continuous improvement across the robotics and systems engineering organization.
- Present strategy, program status, and technical issues to senior and executive leadership.
- Telecommuting is allowed for this position.
Education Required:
- Master or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related fields.
Experience Required:
- 1 year experience in job offered or related occupations (e.g., Computer Vision Engineer).
Special Requirements:
- Must have experience with the following technologies:
- Designing and developing robotics camera systems software
- Developing depth camera software stacks and drivers, including features like auto-calibration
- Developing and integrating machine learning pipelines with seamless training and inferencing of new SKUs (stock keeping units), utilizing technologies such as Tensorflow and PyTorch
- Developing depth camera feature roadmaps
- Maintaining and enhancing in-house robotic applications
- Analyzing and mining large datasets including graph databases like neo4j towards making insight-driven algorithmic improvements
- Writing code using C, C++, and Python programming languages
- Telecommuting is allowed for this position.
Worksite:
- 3790 El Camino Real, Ste 595, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Salary:
- $220,000 - $220,000 per year