Principal Robotics Systems Engineer

Enterprise robotics at Mayo Clinic spans clinical and surgical robotics and service and mobile robotics logistics transport environmental services and patient-facing platforms delivered through multi-vendor fleets on a shared foundation of connectivity data security and standards and evolving from sensor-driven deterministic robots toward AI-driven autonomous systems. The Principal Robotics Systems Engineer is the most senior integration-and-platform individual contributor exercising broad technical authority across multiple enterprise-critical robotics initiatives. The incumbent sets the engineering direction for enterprise fleet observability cross-vendor orchestration and multi-vendor interoperability at enterprise scale and serves as the definitive technical resource for the hardest systems problems. Working in close partnership with enterprise architects who own enterprise reference architecture and standards the principal translates that architecture into concrete scaled engineering reality across initiatives without owning the enterprise architecture itself. This is an individual-contributor role with no direct reports that provides broad functional and technical leadership while modeling stewardship integrity and a commitment to developing others in service of patients staff and the organization.

Bachelors degree in robotics mechanical engineering electrical engineering computer engineering computer science systems engineering mechatronics or a related field and ten (10) or more years of progressively responsible relevant experience required including demonstrated technical leadership of complex implementations.

Masters or doctoral degree in a related field preferred.

Extensive demonstrated authority in multi-vendor robotics integration interoperability standards and fleet or platform engineering at enterprise scale is expected.

Track record setting technical direction for interoperability orchestration and observability platforms; deep expertise in interoperability standards and frameworks such as VDA 5050 Open-RMF and OPC UA and healthcare data standards such as HL7 (including FHIR); cybersecurity frameworks for connected medical and operational technology such as ISA/IEC 62443 and IECwith working knowledge of FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance and ANSI/AAMI SW96 for vendor evaluation; leadership of cross-functional technical initiatives in healthcare or comparable regulated settings.

Advanced vendor-platform safety security (such as ISA/IEC 62443) or architecture certification.

The preferred candidate will possess:

• Significant experience architecting developing and operating production robotics autonomous systems IoT edge-computing or other distributed cyber-physical systems.
• Experience with ROS/ROS 2 and integration of heterogeneous robotic platforms fleet-management systems and vendor APIs.
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems and integration architectures using technologies such as REST/gRPC APIs event-driven architectures message brokers MQTT Kafka or related technologies.
• Experience with cloud-native and edge technologies including containers Docker Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as Azure AWS or GCP.
• Experience designing fleet observability and operational telemetry solutions using technologies such as OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana Splunk Datadog ELK/OpenSearch or similar platforms.
• Experience with deployment configuration management CI/CD remote software updates and lifecycle management of distributed physical devices or robotic fleets.
• Experience integrating multi-vendor robotic or autonomous systems and familiarity with robotics interoperability frameworks or standards such as Open-RMF VDA 5050 MassRobotics AMR Interoperability or related approaches.
• Experience designing resilient systems that account for intermittent connectivity device failures cybersecurity identity networking and edge/cloud operation.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead or senior individual contributor for complex enterprise-scale platform or systems-integration initiatives preferably involving robotics autonomous systems healthcare logistics manufacturing or other mission-critical environments.