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Berkshire Grey is seeking a Conveyor Solutions & Simulation Lead to develop, optimize, and standardize the conveyor system architecture and simulation methods supporting the Stride product platform. This role focuses on creating reusable conveyor modules, improving station-to-station interfaces, establishing simulation-backed design practices, and defining constraints that enhance system functionality and simplify Stride deployments across configuration, validation, installation, scaling, and support.
You will partner closely with Solutions Architecture, Applications Engineering, Controls, Software, and Hardware Engineering teams to strengthen the conveyor design and simulation foundation. By establishing clear standards, reusable design guidance, modeling assumptions, and optimization methods, you will enable Solutions Architecture to create more consistent customer layouts and Applications Engineering to perform stronger viability reviews against a validated technical baseline.
Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining standard conveyor architecture, reusable building blocks, layout rules, and interface requirements; establishing technical standards, reference layouts, design templates, and simulation assumptions; leading simulation and trade study efforts to evaluate conveyor topology, accumulation, buffering, flow, equipment selection, footprint, cost, throughput, and operational robustness; developing and maintaining simulation models and validation methods; partnering with Controls and Software to ensure physical architecture and simulation models reflect sensing, PLC logic, fault recovery, and system behavior; partnering with Applications Engineering on solution viability; providing design guidance to Solutions Architecture; evaluating third-party conveyor components and vendors; translating deployment feedback and field lessons into improved standards; maintaining comprehensive documentation; and providing technical leadership and mentorship in conveyor optimization and cross-functional design decision-making.
Success requires strong systems engineering judgment, automation knowledge, and the ability to use simulation-driven insights to optimize designs for throughput, accumulation, serviceability, installation, safety, manufacturability, lifecycle cost, and operational performance.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or related technical field. 5+ years of experience designing, modeling, optimizing, or validating industrial automation systems, warehouse automation layouts, robotic systems, conveyor systems, or related equipment. Experience with conveyor design, accumulation, buffering, merges, diverts, station interfaces, equipment utilization, and material flow constraints. Experience with AutoCAD or similar 2D/3D layout tools. Experience with Emulate3D/Sim3D by Rockwell Automation or comparable simulation/modeling tools. Strong understanding of throughput, bottlenecks, service access, safety, installation, maintainability, MTBF/MTTR, OEE, and operational robustness. Ability to make clear engineering tradeoffs across performance, cost, footprint, manufacturability, serviceability, customer requirements, and system behavior. Experience providing technical leadership to engineers, including setting direction, reviewing work, mentoring, and coordinating cross-discipline execution. Ability to define and communicate technical strategy, assumptions, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to work effectively across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, operations, applications, and solutions architecture teams.
