Robotics Engineer

Summary

Siemens Healthineers is a medical technology company developing healthcare solutions. The Robotics Engineer will design, implement, integrate, and verify robotic control, safety, sensing, and interface functions for a real-time medical robotics program, including trajectory generation, force-based command modulation, safety filtering, signal monitoring, and hardware/software integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and validate robotic control logic for real-time actuation, safety-supervised motion, and hardware/software integration
• Develop and implement real-time trajectory generation methods, including spline interpolation, motion profiles, and joint-space/task-space planning
• Design and tune admittance/impedance control strategies for force-based command modulation and safety filtering
• Use estimator outputs, signal processing, and diagnostic data to detect unsafe, degraded, or unreliable robotic behavior
• Expose hardware signals, device states, sensor status, communication quality, and diagnostics through clear reusable interfaces
• Validate robotic functions in simulation, hardware-in-the-loop setups, bench experiments, and real hardware environments
• Document assumptions, interfaces, safety limits, validation evidence, and implementation behavior clearly

Skills

• Experience developing control algorithms for robotic, mechatronic, automation, or comparable cyber-physical systems
• Strong background in real-time trajectory generation, motion profiles, joint-space/task-space planning, and velocity/acceleration constraints
• Practical understanding of admittance/impedance control and force-based safety-supervised motion
• Ability to work with estimator outputs, disturbance terms, uncertainty indicators, and estimator failure modes
• Experience with time-series analysis, filtering, trend detection, and signal-quality assessment
• Hands-on experience integrating control or robotics software in real-time, embedded, robotics, or industrial automation environments
• Experience with C++, Python, Linux, ROS, DDS, MATLAB, Simulink, or comparable tools for robotics development and integration
• Ability to validate robotic behavior through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, bench experiments, and real hardware integration
• Master's degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Control Engineering, or a related technical field
• A successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law
• Experience with autonomous robotics, medical robotics, image-guided therapy systems, or other safety-critical cyber-physical systems
• Familiarity with underactuated, continuum, catheter, guidewire, or other flexible robotic systems
• Experience defining conservative safety thresholds with limited ground-truth data
• Experience with medical device development, regulated product development, or verification planning
• PhD in Robotics, Control systems, Real-time systems, or Mechatronics

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Experience developing control algorithms for robotic, mechatronic, automation, or comparable cyber-physical systems
• Strong background in real-time trajectory generation, motion profiles, joint-space/task-space planning, and velocity/acceleration constraints
• Practical understanding of admittance/impedance control and force-based safety-supervised motion
• Ability to work with estimator outputs, disturbance terms, uncertainty indicators, and estimator failure modes
• Experience with time-series analysis, filtering, trend detection, and signal-quality assessment
• Hands-on experience integrating control or robotics software in real-time, embedded, robotics, or industrial automation environments
• Experience with C++, Python, Linux, ROS, DDS, MATLAB, Simulink, or comparable tools for robotics development and integration
• Ability to validate robotic behavior through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, bench experiments, and real hardware integration
• Master's degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Control Engineering, or a related technical field
• A successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law

Nice to Haves

• Experience with autonomous robotics, medical robotics, image-guided therapy systems, or other safety-critical cyber-physical systems
• Familiarity with underactuated, continuum, catheter, guidewire, or other flexible robotic systems
• Experience defining conservative safety thresholds with limited ground-truth data
• Experience with medical device development, regulated product development, or verification planning
• PhD in Robotics, Control systems, Real-time systems, or Mechatronics

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Paid parking/public transportation
• Paid time off
• Paid sick and safe time