Robotics & Drones Systems Integration Lead

Aptiv; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptiv is seeking a Senior Technical Integration Lead to guide the integration, validation, and demonstration of robotics, drones, and autonomous platform technologies. You will bridge research, product development, and customer engagements, working with AI/ML, perception, systems, and validation teams.

The role requires ownership mindset, hands-on troubleshooting, and the ability to drive multi-disciplinary teams toward reliable demonstrations and performance evaluations across real-world

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical 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 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.
• Partner with AI/ML, perception, systems, software, hardware, and validation teams to ensure technologies are properly integrated and optimized.
• Collaborate with project managers and product leaders to prioritize deliverables, manage risks, and align technical activities with program objectives.
• Coordinate activities across global engineering teams to effectively utilize resources and meet project milestones.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and external customers to define demonstration objectives, success criteria, and system requirements.
• Interface with strategic partners, technology suppliers, and customer engineering teams during integration and demonstration activities.
• Drive improvements in integration processes, validation methodologies, and demonstration readiness practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, repeatability, and scalability of integration workflows.
• Support technology pursuits, customer engagements, and pre-production development programs.
• Promote adoption of common architectures, integration standards, and best practices across robotics and autonomous platform projects.

Skills

Strong technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or related field

Tools

ROS or ROS2

Embedded systems

Linux-based development

Job description

Aptiv is seeking a Senior Technical Integration Lead to guide the integration, validation, and demonstration of robotics, drones, and autonomous platform technologies. You will bridge research, product development, and customer engagements, working with AI/ML, perception, systems, and validation teams.

The role requires ownership mindset, hands-on troubleshooting, and the ability to drive multi-disciplinary teams toward reliable demonstrations and performance evaluations across real-world