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Salary: USD 155,000 - 195,000 / annual
Agile Robots, a global leader in industrial and humanoid robotics and physical AI, is seeking a Robotics Solutions Engineer to serve as the technical reference for the North American sales organization. This is a hands-on role that bridges engineering and customer success, requiring you to be equally comfortable at a customer's whiteboard, at hackathons, and in the codebase.
You will partner closely with sales teams and key account managers to provide technical expertise throughout the sales cycle. Your responsibilities include:
- Supporting sales teams in qualifying opportunities, answering technical questions, and helping scope and deliver technical closure
- Visiting customers on-site and remotely to consult on technical solutions, assess requirements, and recommend appropriate hardware, software interfaces (Desk, FCI, ROS 2), and ecosystem components
- Designing, building, and demonstrating proof-of-concept applications that validate customer use cases and de-risk purchasing decisions
- Building and presenting simulation models of customer applications using robotics simulators to validate concepts before hardware deployment
- Planning and supporting hackathons, workshops, trade shows, and technical demos with on-site coaching and live programming support
- Developing customer-facing solutions and sample applications; publishing and contributing code to Franka Robotics GitHub open-source repositories (libfranka, franka_ros2) and reviewing community contributions
- Channeling customer requirements, field insights, and technical issues back to Product Management and R&D in Munich
- Creating demos, documentation, tutorials, and training materials to enable customers, partners, and internal colleagues
The role requires regular travel to customer sites, hackathons, and trade shows across the US. You will work with the Franka platform and collaborative robots, leveraging simulation tools and open-source development practices to drive customer adoption and shape the future of robotics technology.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in applications engineering, solutions engineering, pre-sales, or robotics development
- Strong programming skills in C++
- Hands-on experience with ROS / ROS 2 and robot manipulators (collaborative robots strongly preferred)
- Experience with 3D manufacturing/robotics simulation (OLP solutions) for application layout, feasibility studies, and virtual commissioning
- Proven ability to build demos or prototypes quickly and present them convincingly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working with Git/GitHub and contributing to shared or open-source codebases
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
- Ability to travel regularly to customer sites, hackathons, and trade shows across the US
**Nice to Have:**
- Experience with Franka platform (FR3, libfranka, FCI, franka_ros2) or comparable force-sensitive/collaborative robots
- Background in motion planning, control, machine learning for robotics, or teleoperation/imitation learning
- Experience with additional physics/robotics simulators (Gazebo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Visual Components) and digital-twin workflows
- Experience with real-time control and Linux
- Prior customer-facing experience in technical sales or consulting
- Existing open-source contributions or public portfolio of robotics projects
