Senior Mechanical Engineer – Integration & Applications
AutoStore · Atlanta
AutoStore™ holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company. AutoStore uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever, with minimal environmental impact. That’s how we help brands exceed customer expectations.
We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries, and we grow continuously as a community of employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and connected technologies. Automation should make life easier, and by listening carefully to our community, we innovate to meet the industry’s most complex needs. With AutoStore™, brands gain speed, efficiency, and improved workplaces. And much more floor space.
AutoStore – moving things forward.
The Role:
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer – Integration & Applications, you'll help AutoStore partners and customers adopt our newest products, including our most advanced physical solutions: our robotic piece-picking product line. You'll work closely with Documentation, Product, Electrical/Controls, Compliance, our system integrator partners, our strategic suppliers and customers. You'll be the technical expert on robotic cell guarding, safety compliance, and structural and mounting needs.
You'll have a direct effect on how quickly and safely our products reach the market. The variation guidelines and integration artifacts you create will scale across our global partner base. This role suits an engineer who enjoys variety: hands-on time at customer sites, technical advising, documentation and product design, all built around advanced warehouse robotics.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a technical point of contact for partners and system integrators adapting AutoStore products, including robotic arms and other robotic piece-picking solutions, to customer-specific processes, layouts and space constraints.
- Assess structural and mounting needs for robotic equipment, including installations on mezzanines, platforms with static and dynamics loads and existing building structures along with robot cell guarding and safeguarding strategies.
- Work with the Documentation team to define and publish allowable product variations, integration guidelines, installation requirements and other partner-facing artifacts.
- Create CAD layouts, 3D models and engineering drawings of robot cells, guarding and mounting solutions.
- Review partner-proposed designs, layouts and safety concepts, and give clear, actionable feedback.
- Support integration with conveyors, legacy material handling equipment and controls interfaces, including review of PLC logic, safety I/O and wiring diagrams.
- Feed field learnings back to Product and Engineering to improve product design, integration flexibility and documentation.
- Manage several partner projects and integration requests at once, prioritizing by customer impact and timelines.
- Support core mechanical engineering work: design, prototyping, verification testing, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- 10% travel required, primarily to customer sites.
Key Qualifications:
- 7+ years of mechanical engineering experience in robotics, automation, material handling or machine integration, ideally in a customer- or partner-facing role.
- Familiarity with safety technologies for robotic work cells, such as hard guarding and interlocked doors, light curtains, area scanners, safety mats, e-stops, safety PLCs/relays, and software-based safety zones and speed/separation monitoring.
- Mechanical design skills in 3D CAD (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor, NX or similar) for robot cell layouts, guarding, mounting structures and engineering drawings.
- Experience with conveyor systems and other traditional material handling equipment.
- Understanding of structural and mounting considerations, such as load paths, anchoring, vibration and mezzanine/platform interfaces.
- Proven ability to work with multiple stakeholders across layers of indirection, such as vendors, partners and system integrators acting for end customers.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once with strong organization and follow-through.
- Strong written and verbal communication, including writing clear technical documentation.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of robot cell and machine safeguarding standards, such as:
- EU: Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC / Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230; ISO 10218-1/-2 (industrial robot safety); ISO 13849-1 (safety-related parts of control systems)
- US: ANSI/A3 R15.06 (industrial robot safety); ANSI B11.19 (safeguarding); OSHA 29 CFR 1910.212 (machine guarding)
- Ability to read PLC control logic, electrical schematics and wiring diagrams, and to discuss them with controls engineers.
- Experience with a broader range of material handling and fulfillment technologies, such as AMRs/AGVs, put walls, palletizing and depalletizing, pouch/pocket sorters, shuttle systems and other material handling systems.
- Experience integrating robotic piece-picking or other AI/vision-guided robotic systems.
- Experience with CE marking, technical files or third-party safety audits and risk assessments.
- Hands-on commissioning or site integration experience in warehouse or distribution center environments.
We Offer:
AutoStore believes in taking care of employees and is dedicated to providing a supportive and rewarding work environment. Join us in our mission to store and move things for everyone, everywhere.
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
- Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
- Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
- Additional benefits include Group Life Insurance, Voluntary Additional Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance programs, and more!
AutoStore is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions, and lactation), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.