Robotics Engineer

499x Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics, Inc.; Elgin (IL); On-site; USD 138,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parking/public transportation

Paid time off

Paid sick and safe time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers is seeking a Robotics Engineer for the ARIES program to design, implement, and verify robotic control, safety, sensing, and interfaces in a real-time medical robotics environment.

The role emphasizes deterministic, explainable behavior, hardware/software integration, and validation through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and bench experiments with comprehensive documentation of safety limits and interfaces.

Qualifications

• Experience developing control algorithms for robotic or CPS.
• Strong background in real-time trajectory generation and planning.
• Experience with admittance/impedance control and force-based safety.
• Ability to work with estimator outputs and uncertainty indicators.
• Hands-on experience in real-time embedded robotics development.
• Experience validating robotic behavior via simulation and HIL.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and validate robotic control logic for real-time actuation.
• Develop real-time trajectory generation methods and motion profiles.
• Tune admittance/impedance control for force-based commands.
• Use signals and diagnostics to detect unsafe or degraded robot behavior.
• Expose hardware signals and diagnostics through reusable interfaces.
• Validate functions in simulation, HIL, bench experiments, and real hardware.

Skills

Robotics control algorithms

Real-time trajectory generation

Safety-critical systems

Hardware-software integration

Time-series analysis

Embedded/real-time development

Education

Master’s degree in Robotics or related field

PhD in Robotics or Mechatronics (preferred)

Tools

C++

Python

Linux

ROS

DDS

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Position Summary

The Robotics Engineer will design, implement, integrate, and verify robotic control, safety, sensing, and interface functions for the ARIES (Autonomous Robotics & Imaging Ecosystem for Stroke) program. This role focuses on deterministic, explainable, and auditable robotic behavior in a real-time medical robotics environment, including trajectory generation, force-based command modulation, safety filtering, signal-quality monitoring, and hardware/software integration.

As a Robotics Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Design, implement, and validate robotic control logic for real-time actuation, safety-supervised motion, and hardware/software integration.
• Develop and implement real-time trajectory generation methods, including spline interpolation, motion profiles, and joint-space/task-space planning.
• Design and tune admittance/impedance control strategies for force-based command modulation and safety filtering.
• Use estimator outputs, signal processing, and diagnostic data to detect unsafe, degraded, or unreliable robotic behavior.
• Expose hardware signals, device states, sensor status, communication quality, and diagnostics through clear reusable interfaces.
• Validate robotic functions in simulation, hardware-in-the-loop setups, bench experiments, and real hardware environments.
• Document assumptions, interfaces, safety limits, validation evidence, and implementation behavior clearly.

Required experience to have for the success of this role:

• Experience developing control algorithms for robotic, mechatronic, automation, or comparable cyber-physical systems.
• Strong background in real-time trajectory generation, motion profiles, joint-space/task-space planning, and velocity/acceleration constraints.
• Practical understanding of admittance/impedance control and force-based safety-supervised motion.
• Ability to work with estimator outputs, disturbance terms, uncertainty indicators, and estimator failure modes.
• Experience with time-series analysis, filtering, trend detection, and signal-quality assessment.
• Hands-on experience integrating control or robotics software in real-time, embedded, robotics, or industrial automation environments.
• Experience with C++, Python, Linux, ROS, DDS, MATLAB, Simulink, or comparable tools for robotics development and integration.
• Ability to validate robotic behavior through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, bench experiments, and real hardware integration.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with autonomous robotics, medical robotics, image-guided therapy systems, or other safety-critical cyber-physical systems.
• Familiarity with underactuated, continuum, catheter, guidewire, or other flexible robotic systems.
• Experience defining conservative safety thresholds with limited ground-truth data.
• Experience with medical device development, regulated product development, or verification planning.

Education Required

• Master’s degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Control Engineering, or a related technical field.

Education Preferred

• PhD in Robotics, Control systems, Real-time systems, or Mechatronics.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Connects actuation, sensing, safety logic, and software into reliable robotic behavior.
• Works well across architecture, control, electrical, software, and partner teams.
• Values deterministic behavior, testability, traceability, and clear validation evidence.

Who we are

We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

The base pay range for this position is: $137,910 - $189,629 Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate. If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

• The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time.

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