Robotics & Drones Systems Integration Lead

Aptiv; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptiv invites applications for a Senior Technical Integration Lead Engineer to orchestrate the integration, validation, and demonstrations of our robotics and drone technologies. You will bridge research, product development, and customer engagement, ensuring robust performance across sensing, compute, and autonomy platforms.

You will collaborate with AI/ML, perception, systems, software, hardware, and validation teams to deliver reliable, field-ready solutions for AMR and UAS platforms,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience developing, integrating, or validating complex robotics, autonomous systems, drones, or embedded software platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary integration efforts involving hardware, software, sensing, and compute platforms.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems, system architectures, networking, and real-time software constraints.
• Experience with system bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis in field or laboratory environments.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to travel to customer sites, field test locations, and demonstration events as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration, bring-up, and deployment of advanced Aptiv technologies on robotics, drone, and autonomous platform demonstrators.
• Serve as the technical lead for hardware and software integration activities, ensuring system readiness for demonstrations, customer evaluations, and field testing.
• Drive end-to-end system checkout, debugging, and validation across sensing, compute, communications, and autonomy functions.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers and technicians supporting integration, testing, and demonstration activities.
• Establish and execute integration strategies that ensure robust performance across diverse operating environments and use cases.
• Lead demonstration planning, execution, and support activities, ensuring successful customer-facing events and technology evaluations.
• Develop test strategies, schedules, procedures, and acceptance criteria for integrated robotics and drone systems.
• Lead system-level testing, issue investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.
• Analyze system performance data and communicate results, risks, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Design, execute, and document benchmarking activities to evaluate system performance against customer requirements and competitive solutions.

Skills

Embedded systems

System architectures

Real-time software

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Robotics/Engineering

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Linux

Job description

Aptiv invites applications for a Senior Technical Integration Lead Engineer to orchestrate the integration, validation, and demonstrations of our robotics and drone technologies. You will bridge research, product development, and customer engagement, ensuring robust performance across sensing, compute, and autonomy platforms.

You will collaborate with AI/ML, perception, systems, software, hardware, and validation teams to deliver reliable, field-ready solutions for AMR and UAS platforms,