📍 Location: Tualatin, OR (On-Site)
🏢 Business Unit: ZeroTouch Manufacturing – A Sandvik Company
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

ZeroTouch Manufacturing, part of Sandvik, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Tualatin, Oregon.

In this role, you will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for investigating, diagnosing, and resolving complex issues across advanced automation, precision metrology, and electro-mechanical systems. Acting as a technical escalation point for critical customer, field, and internal engineering challenges, you will leverage your expertise across hardware, software, controls, and manufacturing technologies to improve system performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

This position offers the opportunity to work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams while solving highly technical challenges that directly impact cutting-edge automation and precision measurement solutions used by customers around the world.

• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues across automation, inspection, and electro-mechanical systems
• Serve as a technical escalation point for critical customer, field service, and internal engineering issues
• Perform advanced troubleshooting using system logs, telemetry data, diagnostics tools, network analysis, instrumentation, schematics, and customer feedback
• Lead root cause analysis efforts and implement corrective actions to prevent recurring issues
• Collaborate with software, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and service teams to resolve cross-functional technical challenges
• Troubleshoot electrical systems including power distribution, motors, sensors, actuators, safety circuits, industrial I/O, and communication interfaces
• Analyze software behavior, system interactions, and diagnostic data while working closely with software development teams
• Evaluate the impact of subsystem changes on overall system performance and reliability
• Develop test plans and support validation, acceptance testing, installation, and customer follow-up activities
• Create and maintain troubleshooting guides, service procedures, technical documentation, and knowledge base content
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers, service teams, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to the advancement of engineering best practices

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a passion for investigating complex technical challenges
• Excellent analytical capabilities with the ability to use data and statistical methods to identify root causes and drive corrective actions
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and results orientation
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead technical teams without direct authority
• Ability to communicate highly technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Continuous learning mindset and willingness to embrace new technologies and tools
• Strong understanding of system-level interactions across hardware, firmware, controls, networking, and software platforms
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; advanced degree preferred
• 5–8+ years of engineering experience, preferably within automation, machine design, robotics, metrology, or advanced manufacturing environments
• Experience supporting products through design, debugging, validation, production, and customer deployment
• Technical expertise in one or more of the following disciplines:
  • Precision Mechanical Design
  • Motion Control
  • Robotics
  • Optical Systems
  • Metrology
  • Algorithm Development
  • Data Analysis and Statistical Methods
• Familiarity with measurement systems analysis and statistical analysis methodologies preferred
• Proficiency with SolidWorks and Product Data Management (PDM) systems
• Experience developing and executing system validation and troubleshooting methodologies
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals combined with software troubleshooting capabilities
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues spanning hardware, firmware, controls, networking, and application software

• This position is based in our Tualatin, Oregon facility and requires on-site collaboration.
• Domestic and international travel of approximately 10–30% is required.
• A valid passport, or the ability to obtain one, is required.