Job Title: Welding Engineer, Robotics
Department: Operations
Employment Type: Full-Time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Houston, TX
Travel: 10%
About the RoleWe are looking for a Welding Engineer to join our Applications team who has a strong understanding of what it takes to perform high-quality welds through manual and robotic welding processes. But you want to deploy that knowledge to a new platform, the humanoid robot. In short, we need someone to own the welding aspects of our application development.
What You Will Be Doing- Develop and refine motion paths for the welding humanoid robot.
- Optimize weld parameters (voltage, amperage, shielding gas) to minimize thermal distortion and maximize penetration.
- Collaborate with governing bodies to develop standards and certification processes for the humanoid robot.
- Identify required sensors and tooling for performing welding tasks.
- Translate welding domain knowledge into requirements for perception, manipulation, and controls teams.
What We Are Looking For:- M.S. or B.S. in Welding Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or Manufacturing Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in a welding operations role in heavy equipment manufacturing.
- Hands-on experience with MIG, GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding), and FCAW (Flux-Core Arc Welding) welding processes across a range of materials and welding positions.
- Ability to thrive operating in a fast-paced engineering environment with a lot of autonomy.
- Strong ability to create documentation, welding processes, and reports to aid in certification and qualification.
- Comfort with ambiguity and first-of-a-kind applications. This role requires building processes from scratch, not maintaining established ones.
Bonus Skills:- Strong working knowledge of industry welding codes, standards, and the required documentation for certification and qualification.
- Experience designing and implementing robotic welding algorithms such as touch sensing, through-the-arc seam tracking, and laser seam tracking.
- Experience with verification testing of weld path accuracy and repeatability.
- Operational experience in robotic welding or in demanding industrial environments.
- Project management experience.
