End Effector Integration Engineer

The hands of a humanoid robot are yours to design.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Own the end-effector strategy across different industrial robotics applications.

• Analyze customer workflows and operational requirements to identify the most suitable endeffector solutions.

• Evaluate and select commercially available end-effectors including grippers, suction systems, hooks, tool changers, robotic hands, cameras, and specialized tooling.

• Drive standardization and platform thinking by reducing the number of end-effector variants while maximizing use-case coverage.

• Define requirements for future end-effector solutions based on customer needs, product requirements, and engineering constraints.

• Coordinate and manage relationships with external suppliers, technology partners, and development vendors.

• Support feasibility studies, proof-of-concepts, customer evaluations, and pilot deployments.

• Define evaluation criteria, benchmarking methodologies, and trade-off analyses for endeffector technologies.

• Develop business cases and technical recommendations for buy-vs-build decisions.

• Track emerging technologies and market trends in manipulation, grasping, vacuum handling, tactile sensing, dexterous hands, and industrial tooling.

• Ensure successful integration of selected end-effectors into the robotic platform and deployment workflows.

• Contribute to the development of a long-term manipulation and tooling roadmap.

Requirements

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• BSc/MSc in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation Engineering, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in robotics, automation, industrial tooling, end-of-arm tooling, application engineering, or solutions engineering.

• Strong understanding of robotic manipulation systems and industrial automation.

• Experience working with grippers, vacuum systems, robotic hands, tool changers, or similar end-effectors.

• Experience evaluating and integrating third-party hardware solutions.

• Strong systems-engineering mindset with the ability to balance technical and business considerations.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to translate customer needs into technical requirements and actionable engineering decisions.

• Familiarity with any of ROS2, robot kinematics, manipulation/grasp planning, controls, force control, tactile sensing, or dexterous manipulation is a plus.