Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Berkshire Grey is hiring a Conveyor Engineering Lead to develop, optimize, and standardize conveyor architecture and simulation methods for its Stride product platform. The role establishes reusable design standards and simulation-backed system decisions, while partnering across engineering and solutions teams to improve deployment consistency, viability, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain standard conveyor architecture, reusable building blocks, layout rules, and interface requirements for the Stride product platform, including conveyor modules, station interfaces, accumulation strategies, merge/divert behavior, connection methods, and mechanical constraints
- Establish and document technical standards, reference layouts, design templates, and simulation assumptions for use by Engineering, Applications Engineering, and Solutions Architecture
- Lead simulation, system behavior, and trade study efforts to evaluate conveyor topology, accumulation, buffering, station-to-station flow, equipment selection, footprint, cost, throughput, operational robustness, bottlenecks, and layout alternatives
- Develop and maintain simulation models, reusable simulation components, and validation methods that support system-level design decisions
- Partner with Controls and Software teams to ensure physical conveyor architecture and simulation models reflect sensing, PLC/control logic, fault recovery, traffic management, and system-level behavior
- Partner with Applications Engineering to ensure solution viability reviews are grounded in clear conveyor standards, validated assumptions, and consistent performance expectations
- Partner with Solutions Architecture to provide design guidance, layout constraints, and best practices that improve the consistency and scalability of customer-facing system layouts
- Evaluate third-party conveyor components, vendor capabilities, and integration approaches for fit within BG’s conveyor architecture and simulation environment
- Translate deployment feedback, customer constraints, field issues, and manufacturing lessons learned into improved conveyor standards, simulation assumptions, and productized design updates
- Maintain conveyor and simulation documentation, including standard layouts, interface control documents, design guides, modeling assumptions, validation methods, and engineering decision records
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship in conveyor system optimization, simulation methods, and cross-functional design decision-making
Skills
- Experience with conveyor systems and AutoCAD
- Any experience with Emulate3D/Sim3D by Rockwell Automation
- Comparable experience with industrial automation layouts, system modeling, simulation tools, or PLC-based automation systems
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience designing, modeling, optimizing, or validating industrial automation systems, warehouse automation layouts, robotic systems, conveyor systems, or related equipment
- Experience with conveyor design, accumulation, buffering, merges, diverts, station interfaces, equipment utilization, and material flow constraints
- Experience with AutoCAD or a similar 2D/3D layout tool for facility layouts, conveyor layouts, or technical design documentation
- Experience with Emulate3D / Sim3D by Rockwell Automation or a similar simulation/modeling tool
- Strong understanding of throughput, bottlenecks, service access, safety, installation, maintainability, MTBF/MTTR, OEE, and operational robustness
- Ability to make clear engineering tradeoffs across performance, cost, footprint, manufacturability, serviceability, customer requirements, and system behavior
- Experience providing technical leadership to engineers, including setting direction, reviewing work, mentoring team members, and coordinating execution across disciplines
- Ability to define and communicate technical strategy, assumptions, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, operations, applications, and solutions architecture teams
- PLC experience or strong familiarity with industrial controls systems
- Experience working with conveyor vendors, systems integrators, installation teams, customer site engineering teams, or automation partners
- Experience developing standards, design guides, templates, or reusable engineering tools for cross-functional use
- Experience with Python and/or C++ for simulation, automation, data analysis, tooling, or performance profiling
- Experience with Nvidia Omniverse, digital twins, virtual commissioning, MBSE tools, or other system modeling frameworks
- Experience developing reusable simulation components, APIs, SDKs, or modeling tools
- Experience with robotics simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, software-in-the-loop testing, or production software integration
- Experience designing conveyor systems for robotic automation, fulfillment, parcel, logistics, manufacturing, or warehouse automation environments
- Experience integrating conveyor systems with robots, sorters, scanners, sensors, PLCs, safety systems, WMS/WES/WCS platforms, or customer facility controls
- Familiarity with Git, Jira, Linux / Ubuntu environments, CI/CD practices, code reviews, or modern software development workflows
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