Robotics Engineer

About Isembard

Isembard is rebuilding industrial capacity through a connected network of factories. We bring skilled people, advanced machine tools and our own software, MasonOS, together to make precision components for aerospace, defence, energy and robotics.

The role

Our factories run high-mix, small-batch work. Much of the automation on the market is designed for long production runs. We are building robotics that fits the changing work on our shop floors.

You will help shape robotics at Isembard while the team is at an early stage. Starting with autonomous material movement, you will design, build and integrate hardware and software, working alongside the people who use it on a live factory floor. The aim is to deploy systems across the network.

• Take robotic and mechatronic systems from CAD through prototyping to deployment.
• Design across mechanical systems, actuators, sensors, embedded electronics and communications hardware.
• Write the software that runs your hardware and connects it to MasonOS.
• Specify and integrate off-the-shelf automation, including machine tending and cell automation, where it is the right solution.
• Test on the shop floor and design modular systems that other factories can use.

What you bring

• Engineering ability across hardware, software and embedded systems.
• Strong CAD skills.
• Robotics programming experience, for example in Python or C++.
• Hands-on embedded experience with actuators and communications hardware. Self-taught is fine.
• A record of building and deploying hardware in real operating environments.
• Useful, not essential: manufacturing automation, design for manufacture and GD&T, or experience with mobile robots, machine tending or pallet systems.