Robotics Automation Engineer: Digital Twin & Orchestration

Accenture PLC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking a Robotics Automation Engineer to design, program, and deploy industrial and collaborative robots across manufacturing, warehousing and logistics environments in the United States. You will work with ROS/ROS 2, Python and C++ to implement automation solutions and integrate with enterprise systems.

Travel up to 75% is required as part of the role, with collaboration across engineering partners and OT teams to ensure safe, scalable production systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in robotics automation, robot programming, controls integration, AMR/AGV deployment or autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, program, configure and deploy industrial robots, collaborative robots, AMRs/AGVs, mobile manipulation and related robotic automation.
• Integrate robots with end effectors, conveyors, safety systems, machine vision, sensors, PLCs, SCADA, MES, WMS, ERP and site workflows.
• Develop robot programs, control logic, interfaces and adapters using OEM tools, ROS/ROS 2, Python, C++ or relevant automation technologies.
• Support cell design, reach and cycle-time studies, tooling specifications, layout validation, safety assessment and equipment selection with engineering partners.
• Use digital twins and simulation for offline programming, layout validation, process testing, virtual commissioning, fleet sizing and deployment-risk reduction.
• Support robotics intelligence capabilities such as perception, localization, SLAM, motion planning, task planning, sensor fusion and autonomous decision logic where applicable.
• Contribute to robot training and validation workflows, including synthetic data, simulation-based testing and simulation-to-real transfer when required.
• Integrate robots and fleets with orchestration platforms for task allocation, traffic management, exception handling, monitoring and coordinated operations.
• Conduct integration, safety, hardware-in-the-loop, factory-acceptance, site-acceptance and production-readiness testing.
• Troubleshoot software, controls, network, sensor, mechanical and operational issues through commissioning and post-go-live support.
• Document robot programs, interfaces, configurations, test evidence, operating procedures, runbooks and support requirements.
• Collaborate with Physical AI architects, digital-twin and simulation engineers, OT teams, client operations and robotics ecosystem partners.

Skills

Robotics automation

Robot programming

Controls integration

AMR/AGV deployment

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Python

C++

Job description

Accenture PLC is seeking a Robotics Automation Engineer to design, program, and deploy industrial and collaborative robots across manufacturing, warehousing and logistics environments in the United States. You will work with ROS/ROS 2, Python and C++ to implement automation solutions and integrate with enterprise systems.

Travel up to 75% is required as part of the role, with collaboration across engineering partners and OT teams to ensure safe, scalable production systems.