Turnkey Application Engineer (Detroit)

Job summary

Skills & expertise

• Project management
• Communication skills
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Mechanical skills
• Team building

Questions and answers about the job

• Design & quoting: Design and simulate turnkey solutions; ensure proposed solutions meet customer requirements; conduct technical validation and drive internal go/no-go decisions.
• Deployment execution: Lead commissioning and rollouts at customer sites, from first install to stable production.
• Project management: Own the end-to-end project cycle, managing customer relationships, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to deliver successfully.
• Playbooks & standards: Build repeatable deployment processes, checklists, documentation, and training for internal and customer teams.
• Scale the function: Turn the playbook into a repeatable process and help grow a team as installs and revenue increase.
• Field feedback loop: Translate field learnings into product requirements and prioritization inputs.
• Faster design-to-quote and technical validation, with a robust process to select and validate the right projects.
• Efficiently managed projects with documentation and tools that accelerate deployments.
• Consistently successful FAT and SAT, leading to stable production go-lives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a field-based robotics or machine vision application engineer.
• Experience with robot programming (e.g., Universal Robots, FANUC, KUKA, Yaskawa, ABB).
• Experience with station simulation software (e.g., Process Simulate, RoboDK, RoboGuide, or equivalent).
• Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships with customers and internal teams.
• Ability to travel within the US.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements.
• Experience in industrial automation, automotive manufacturing, computer vision, or related domains.
• PLC programming.