Workplace Classification:
Hybrid : This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Austin Innovation Center three times per week, at minimum, or other frequency dictated by the business.
The Team:
We are looking for Robotics Engineers who are innovative, creative, problem solvers who get things done!
To achieve our vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion, we are building a team of people who are passionate about creating safer, better, and more sustainable solutions. This bold vision won't happen overnight, but just as we transformed how the transportation in the last century, we are committed to transforming how we move today and in the future.
Vision And Automation Services (VAAS) is an organization within GM IT, building innovative solutions supporting global manufacturing, leveraging current and emerging technologies. One of our initiatives is to protect workers from repetitive, mundane, and dangerous tasks.
The Role:
Are you a robot engineer with passion for designing prototypes, building and testing robot cells, who envisions using your ideas, electrical/mechanical knowledge to build advanced technological real-time software applications?
If you want a place that challenges you to bring your curiosity, enthusiasm, desire to learn, grow, and succeed every day, to build automotive solutions that are the benchmark for other automotive companies and suppliers, then this is the place for you.
We are looking for Senior Robotics Engineers who:
- Have a steadfast drive for excellence
- Challenge themselves and their peers
- Enjoy working collaboratively in a cross-functional team
- Demonstrate a good work ethic
- Have a strong ability and willingness to learn
- Excel in robot engineering
- Understand physics, mechanical, electrical and math (linear algebra) concepts, and can apply them to real applications
- Desire to deliver innovative solutions to complex problems
The Senior Software Robotics Engineer is responsible for supporting and reinforcing the adoption of Robotics Software Engineering across the MFG IT organization with the goal of establishing significant improvements in the Manufacturing space relative to manufacturing productivity/efficiency.
The Senior Software Robotics Engineer will drive the identification, evaluation, and adoption of rapid iterative and incremental robotics software solutions together with Junior and Staff Robotics Software Engineers and our Manufacturing Engineering business partners. The ideal candidate can embrace, execute and apply Transformative Robotic Technologies, Simulation, ML/DL, Computer Vision and the delivery of turn-key solutions.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities):
- Definition and adoption of GM MFG IT Robotics capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to update and/or streamline the current GM Robotics Engineering processes together with Manufacturing Engineering SMEs.
- Define and develop ML/DL solutions in real-world environments.
- Computer Vision solutions in real-world environments.
- Ability to digest, design and deploy solutions based on research artifacts.
- Simulation.
- Data Visualization.
- Designing solutions at scale (minimize operational overhead).
- End to end understanding of systems and interfaces, so solutions can be built to fit within constraints.
- Ability to travel as needed to GM plants/facilities throughout the US.
