Senior Solutions & Applications Engineer, Autonomous Mobile Robot

ABB Inc; Sant Quirze del Vallès; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB is seeking a senior AMMR applications engineer to scale autonomous mobile manipulation across Europe. You will work with customers, product management, R&D, and engineering to translate complex robotics concepts into repeatable solutions.

You will mentor a global team and shape the deployment strategy for AMMR across industries. Based in Europe with preferred locations in Milan, Barcelona or Huizingen, you will travel up to 50%.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in robotics, industrial automation, autonomous systems, or related technologies.
• Hands-on experience integrating complex industrial systems, including robots, AMRs, PLCs, control systems, functional safety, or vision.
• Proven track record delivering customer-facing projects from pilot to full production deployment.
• Strong systems engineering mindset translating customer requirements into scalable solutions.
• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and coach engineers.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption and deployment of AMMR tech across Europe and beyond, acting as the technical expert with deep product knowledge.
• Partner with customer execution teams to deliver AMMR deployments, providing design, commissioning, troubleshooting, risk mitigation, and optimization.
• Develop engineering guidelines, templates, and validated concepts to scale AMMR applications.
• Serve as the technical bridge between customers, Sales, Product Management, R&D, and Engineering.
• Capture lessons learned and translate feedback into product improvements and user stories.
• Lead and mentor a global community of AMMR application engineers across Europe and globally.

Skills

Robotics

Industrial automation

Autonomous systems

Solution architecture

Technical project delivery

Job description

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to:

Global Portfolio Manager

This role sits within ABB’s Robotics business, a leading global robotics company.

We’re entering an exciting new chapter as we’ve announced the plan for SoftBank Group to acquire ABB Robotics. SoftBank is a globally recognized technology group and investor/operator focused on AI, robotics, and next-generation computing. By joining us now, you’ll be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of robotics—working alongside world-class experts in a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment.

In this role, you will help scale ABB’s Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMMR) technology across customer applications throughout Europe and beyond. Working at the intersection of customer deployment, solution development, and product innovation, you will turn cutting‑edge robotics technology into robust, repeatable, and successful solutions. This is a unique opportunity to influence the evolution of a breakthrough robotics offering, collaborating closely with customers, Product Management, R&D, and engineering teams to shape the future of autonomous mobile manipulation.

You will join a global team of application engineers and solution experts, with a primary focus on the European market.

The preferred locations are Milan/Italy, Barcelona/Spain or Huizingen/Belgium.

Travel of up to 50% may be required, primarily within Europe.

Your responsibilities:

• Drive Customer Adoption and Deployment Success: Act as the AMMR technical expert, combining deep product knowledge with practical application expertise. Engage directly with customers to understand their operational needs, develop proof‑of‑concepts and application demonstrations, and support the industrialization and deployment of solutions into production environments.
• Ensure Successful Customer Implementations: Partner with customer execution teams across Europe to deliver successful AMMR deployments, providing expertise in application design, commissioning, troubleshooting, risk mitigation, and system optimization from project initiation through production ramp‑up.
• Develop Scalable Application Standards and Best Practices: Create and maintain engineering guidelines, templates, standards, and validated solution concepts that enable efficient scaling of AMMR applications across customers, industries, market segments, and geographies.
• Act as the Technical Bridge Across Functions: Serve as the primary technical interface between customers, Sales, Product Management, R&D, and Engineering teams, ensuring alignment between customer requirements, solution delivery, and product evolution.
• Drive Continuous Product Improvement: Capture lessons learned from customer projects and translate them into actionable feedback for Product Management and R&D, including feature requests, user stories, bug reports, and recommendations that enhance product performance, usability, and scalability.
• Lead and Mentor a Global Community of Experts: Coach and support AMMR Application Engineers across Europe and globally, fostering engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, standardization, teamwork, and the reuse of proven solutions.

Your background:

• 10+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in robotics, industrial automation, autonomous systems, or related technologies, with experience in application engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or technical project delivery.
• Hands‑on experience integrating complex industrial systems, including at least two of the following: industrial robots, mobile robots (AMRs), PLCs and control systems, functional safety systems, and industrial vision systems.
• Proven track record delivering customer‑facing projects from pilot and early‑stage deployments through full production implementation, including commissioning, troubleshooting, validation, and performance optimization.
• Strong systems engineering mindset with the ability to translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions, architectures, integration concepts, and deployment strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and provide technical leadership across cross‑functional teams, including Product Management, R&D, Engineering, Operations, Sales, and customers.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with fluency in English. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment; experience coaching or mentoring engineers is an advantage.

This opportunity is open to candidates in one or more countries covered by the European Pay Transparency Directive. The final work location will depend on the selected candidate. As pay may vary by location, compensation details will be shared with candidates who progress to the first interview stage.

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