Robotics & Automation Engineer

Insud Pharma; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

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Descripción de la vacante

Insud Pharma is expanding its AI Labs to build a new automation and robotics capability in Madrid. The team focuses on automating laboratory processes, integrating instruments and robotics with software, data platforms, and AI to deliver scalable pilots.

We are seeking engineers with hands‑on experience in laboratory automation, scientific instrumentation, robotics, mechatronics, autonomous systems, and industrial automation. English proficiency is required; Spanish is highly valued.

Formación

• Experience delivering automation or robotics projects that combine software with physical equipment, instruments, sensors, or control systems.
• Hands‑on experience with relevant automation, robotics, or instrumentation frameworks.
• Ability to prototype quickly and translate promising concepts into practical engineering solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Identify and prioritize opportunities to automate laboratory processes and workflows.
• Design and deploy systems linking instruments, sensors, robotics, software, data platforms, and AI capabilities.
• Integrate laboratory instruments with automation platforms and create reliable interfaces between hardware and digital workflows.
• Develop control and orchestration software for laboratory automation, robotic workcells, and autonomous experimentation.
• Collaborate with partners, system integrators, and vendors to define, deliver, and scale pilots while building internal architectures.

Conocimientos

Laboratory automation

Robotics

Mechatronics

Autonomous systems

Industrial automation

Physical systems integration

ROS 2

Herramientas

ROS 2

Descripción del empleo

Position: Robotics & Automation Engineer

Want to know more?

INSUD PHARMA operates across the entire pharmaceutical value chain, providing specialized knowledge and experience in scientific research, development, manufacturing, sales, and marketing of a wide range of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), finished dosage forms (FDF), and branded pharmaceutical products, adding value to human and animal health.

The activities of INSUD PHARMA are organized into three synergistic business areas: Industrial (Chemo), Branded (Exeltis), and Biotech (mAbxience), with over 9,000 professionals in more than 50 countries, 20 state‑of‑the‑art facilities, 15 specialized R&D centers, 12 commercial offices, and more than 35 pharmaceutical subsidiaries, serving 1,150 customers in 96 countries worldwide. INSUD PHARMA believes in innovation and sustainable development.

Ready to be a #Challenger?

What are we looking for?

AI Labs is Insud Pharma’s applied AI and advanced engineering team. We develop and deploy technologies that create measurable impact across laboratories, manufacturing, R&D, and other areas of the company.

We are expanding our automation and robotics capability and recruiting several engineers with complementary backgrounds in laboratory automation, scientific instrumentation, robotics, autonomous systems, and physical AI.

Depending on your background, you may focus more deeply on laboratory automation and systems integration, working with technology partners to deliver and scale automation pilots, or on robotics and autonomous systems, combining near‑term deployments with longer‑term work in advanced robotics and physical AI.

You will join at an early stage and help build this capability from the ground up: identifying high‑value opportunities, designing technical solutions, integrating hardware and software, and taking systems from prototype through pilot deployment and, where successful, toward operational scale.

How the team works:

AI Labs combines the pace and ownership of a startup with the reach and resources of an international pharmaceutical group.

Our culture is collaborative, practical, and technically ambitious. We prototype quickly, test ideas against real operational problems, and invest in the engineering required to turn successful pilots into reliable systems.

These positions are based in our Madrid office and involve hands‑on collaboration with laboratories, manufacturing sites, equipment vendors, technology partners, universities, and research organization.

The challenge!

Your focus will depend on your experience and specialization. You may:

• Identify and prioritize opportunities to automate laboratory processes, experimental workflows, and other physical operations.
• Design and deploy systems that connect scientific instruments, sensors, robotics, automation equipment, software, data platforms, and AI capabilities.
• Integrate laboratory instruments and automation platforms, creating reliable interfaces between physical equipment and digital workflows.
• Develop control and orchestration software for laboratory automation, intelligent instrumentation, robotic workcells, and autonomous experimentation.
• Work with technology partners, system integrators, and equipment vendors to define, deliver, and scale automation pilots while helping establish the architectures, interfaces, and engineering capabilities that Insud should own internally.
• Develop robotics capabilities including manipulation, sensing, localization, navigation, motion planning, and control.
• Use ROS 2 and relevant laboratory, industrial, and software engineering frameworks to build maintainable and operationally robust systems.
• Develop and lead prototypes and pilot deployments, evaluating technical feasibility, robustness, usability, and business value.
• Explore longer‑term opportunities in advanced robotics, autonomous systems, physical AI, and autonomous experimentation, translating promising advances into future capabilities and practical applications.
• Contribute to the long‑term technical roadmap and help build a specialized automation and robotics capability within AI Labs.

What do you need?

We are looking for engineers with hands‑on experience in one or more of the following areas:

Laboratory automation · Scientific instrumentation · Robotics · Mechatronics · Autonomous systems · Industrial automation · Physical systems integration

Across these profiles, we value:

• Experience delivering automation or robotics projects that combine software with physical equipment, instruments, sensors, or control systems.
• Software engineering skills and practical experience integrating heterogeneous hardware and software.
• Understanding of relevant fundamentals such as sensing, control, orchestration, motion, manipulation, or instrumentation.
• Hands‑on experience with relevant automation, robotics, or instrumentation frameworks.
• The ability to prototype quickly and turn promising concepts into practical, reliable engineering solutions.
• Problem‑solving skills and comfort working in an environment where requirements and technologies evolve.
• The ability to collaborate effectively with scientists, engineers, operational teams, and external partners.
• Professional proficiency in English. Spanish is highly valued.

For robotics‑focused positions, experience with ROS or ROS 2 is highly valued, but it is not required for every opening.

Particularly valuable experience:

• Laboratory or experimental workflow automation and scientific instrument integration.
• Autonomous experimentation, closed‑loop optimization, or human‑in‑the‑loop automation.
• Robotic manipulation, mobile robotics, or mobile manipulation.
• Equipment integration using APIs, SDKs, industrial protocols, or laboratory automation interfaces.
• Taking automation or robotics systems beyond proof of concept into validated pilots or operational environments.
• Working with equipment manufacturers, system integrators, universities, startups, or research organizations.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, or experience helping establish a new engineering capability.

Why these roles matter

You will have the opportunity to help build Insud Pharma’s automation and robotics capability from the beginning and shape how intelligent physical systems are designed, integrated, deployed, and scaled across laboratories and operations.

Our goal is not only to deliver individual pilots. We aim to build a reusable capability that connects automation, robotics, data, and AI across Insud Pharma.

Flexible start time from Monday to Friday

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COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

The InsudPharma group is aware that business management must align with the needs and demands of society, and therefore assumes the commitment to equal opportunities and treatment between men and women, as stated in the current regulations on the matter - Organic Law 3/2007, and we do not discriminate against any person on the grounds of ethnicity, religion, age, sex, nationality, marital status, affective or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other personal or social circumstance.