Frontend / UX Engineer - Robotics Data Operations, Kitchener, ON

Siemens Mobility; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Telecommuting

Digital workspaces

Profit sharing

Generous vacation

Job summary

Siemens Mobility in Kitchener, ON, is seeking a Frontend / UX Engineer for Robotics Data Operations to build user-facing applications that manage data campaigns, monitor ingestion, review quality, and enable annotations. You will craft intuitive interfaces for engineers, researchers, operators, and customers, blending frontend engineering with data visualization and AI/robotics workflows.

You will design workflows, implement dashboards, and collaborate with backend teams to deliver scalable,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Design Engineering, or related field.
• Experience designing interfaces for developer tools, data platforms, engineering workflows, AI tools, or industrial software.
• Ability to create clear visualizations for status, metrics, quality, time-series, media, and metadata.

Responsibilities

• Build the Platform UI: develop web apps for robotics data campaign management, dataset review, annotation workflows, and quality dashboards.
• Design technical workflows: translate complex data operations into intuitive user journeys for engineers, researchers, and customers.
• Visualize dataset quality: create dashboards for data completeness, modality coverage, validation errors, synchronization issues, and training readiness.
• Support human-in-the-loop review: build interfaces for reviewing, approving, correcting, and annotating robotics data.
• Develop episode inspection views: enable inspection of robot episodes, sensor streams, metadata, task context, and validation results.
• Collaborate on APIs: define frontend-friendly APIs and integration patterns with backend engineers and platform architects.
• Ensure usability and accessibility: apply user-centered design, responsive layouts, accessibility standards, and Siemens UX guidelines.
• Support customer readiness: build professional interfaces suitable for internal and pilot customer use.
• Drive frontend quality: implement automated tests, component documentation, maintainable architecture, and clean code practices.

Skills

Frontend UX design

Data visualization

API integration

Software quality

Product thinking

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/HCI/SE

Tools

REST

GraphQL

gRPC-web

Event-driven systems

Job description

Frontend / UX Engineer - Robotics Data Operations, Kitchener, ON

510688

05-Ago-2026

Research & Development

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who solve ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

About the role: Frontend / UX Engineer for Robotics Data Operations

Are you a frontend or full-stack engineer who enjoys creating intuitive interfaces for complex technical workflows? Do you want to design user experiences that help engineers, researchers, operators, and customers manage robotics data campaigns and dataset quality?

We are seeking a Frontend / UX Engineer to build the user-facing applications of the Robotics Data Platform. These applications will allow users to create data campaigns, monitor ingestion status, review dataset quality, manage annotations, inspect robot episodes, and understand whether data is ready for model training.

This role is ideal for someone who can combine strong frontend engineering skills with a passion for usable technical products, data visualization, and AI/robotics workflows.

What will you do?

• Build the Platform UI: Develop web applications for robotics data campaign management, dataset review, annotation workflows, and quality dashboards.
• Design Technical Workflows: Translate complex data operations into intuitive and efficient user journeys for engineers, researchers, and customer users.
• Visualize Dataset Quality: Create dashboards for data completeness, modality coverage, validation errors, synchronization issues, and training readiness.
• Support Human-in-the-Loop Review: Build interfaces for reviewing, approving, correcting, and annotating robotics data.
• Develop Episode Inspection Views: Enable users to inspect robot episodes, sensor streams, metadata, task context, and validation results.
• Collaborate on APIs: Work closely with backend engineers and platform architects to define frontend-friendly APIs and integration patterns.
• Ensure Usability and Accessibility: Apply user-centered design principles, responsive layouts, accessibility standards, and Siemens UX guidelines where applicable.
• Support Customer Readiness: Build interfaces that are professional, secure, understandable, and suitable for internal and pilot customer use.
• Drive Frontend Quality: Implement automated tests, component documentation, maintainable architecture, and clean code practices.

What you will bring:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Design Engineering, or a related field.
• UX for Technical Products: Experience designing or implementing interfaces for developer tools, data platforms, engineering workflows, AI tools, or industrial software.
• Data Visualization: Ability to create clear visualizations for status, metrics, quality, time-series, media, and metadata.
• API Integration: Experience integrating with REST, GraphQL, gRPC-web, or event-driven backend systems.
• Software Quality: Experience with frontend testing, component libraries, design systems, accessibility, and maintainable UI architecture.
• Product Thinking: Ability to understand user needs, challenge requirements, and propose pragmatic workflow improvements.
• Collaboration: Ability to work closely with product owners, backend engineers, researchers, and users.
• Communication: Strong ability to explain design choices, trade-offs, and user experience considerations.

What sets you apart:

• Experience with Siemens design systems, industrial UX, or complex enterprise software.
• Experience with annotation tools, data review tools, media/video inspection, or AI dataset platforms.
• Familiarity with robotics, machine vision, simulation, or industrial automation.
• Experience with dashboards for observability, data quality, or MLOps.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate prototyping, UI testing, documentation, or code generation.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Build the founding team and platform capability for a strategic Physical AI initiative in Canada.
• Innovation: Work at the intersection of robotics, AI, industrial software, workflow orchestration, and platform engineering.
• Leadership: Shape the direction, culture, and operating model of a new strategic engineering organization.
• Collaboration: Partner with leading global research, product, and engineering teams.
• Growth: Help define how Physical AI platform capabilities scale from data foundations to runtime-enabled industrial applications.

Salary: Salary iscommensuratewith experience, and base salary ranges between $85,000- $130,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus of 10% of base salary, based on Company performance metrics.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

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