Applications Engineer (Robotics)

Brooks Automation, Inc.
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 55K

Job location

Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Systems Engineering
Software as a Service
DevOps
Python
Software Requirements Analysis
Verification and Validation (Software)

Job description

Team Leadership

  • Lead a team of 2-3 robotics and airborne platform specialists, ensuring clear priorities, effective resourcing and a collaborative working culture
  • Understand where robotics can deliver value for the sector and how SMEs can best access those opportunities, informing internal planning and capability development.
  • Translate sector insight into clear guidance for SMEs on adoption pathways, development barriers and opportunities for collaboration.

Subject Leadership

  • Act as a subject matter expert for robotics and autonomy, providing applied insight grounded in working knowledge of tools, platforms and test environments.
  • Ensure robotics and automation capabilities are appropriately resourced with objectives aligned to customer demand and real-world development needs.
  • Maintain oversight of key capabilities, including mobile robotics platforms, airborne robotics/UAVs, and the CarMaker-based simulation environment.

Project Delivery

  • Serve as technical lead for selected robotics projects, ensuring technical requirements are well defined, achievable and aligned to project objectives.
  • Work closely with project managers to ensure technical outputs are delivered on time and to a high quality.

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with robotics companies, government bodies, trade associations and academic partners.
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Requirements

  • Strong background in robotics, autonomy, mechatronics or equivalent fields, with experience relevant to real-world or commercial deployment.

  • Working knowledge of key robotics tools and frameworks, including ROS2, Python and robotics simulation (CarMaker preferred; Gazebo or IsaacSIM beneficial).

  • Demonstrated senior technical capability, including leading technical work packages or engineering streams.

  • Systems engineering mindset: requirements definition, verification and validation.

  • Experience supporting or coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams.

  • Background experience with robotics hardware, testing or integration sufficient to understand operational considerations within the team.

  • Experience with airborne robotics (UAVs).

  • Knowledge of the UK robotics ecosystem.

  • Experience working directly with customers or external partners, ideally including SMEs, providing guidance, technical interpretation or development support.

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Benefits & conditions

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About the company

Brooks is a leading provider of automation solutions with over 40 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, offering precision robotics, integrated automation systems, and contamination control solutions that empower chip manufacturers worldwide. Our product..., About Prighter Prighter is a fast-growing LegalTech company building productised services and SaaS solutions for compliance with data protection as well as AI & digital governance regulations. With the mission to enable companies around the world to comply with regulatory...

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