Senior Solutions & Applications Engineer, Autonomous Mobile Robot

About the role

This role sits within ABB's Robotics business and reports to the Global Portfolio Manager. It focuses on scaling ABB's Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMMR) technology across customer applications in Europe and beyond, working with customers, Product Management, R&D and engineering teams. The preferred locations are Milan (Italy), Barcelona (Spain) or Huizingen (Belgium), with travel of up to 50% mainly within Europe.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the AMMR technical expert, engaging directly with customers to understand their needs, develop proof-of-concepts and application demonstrations, and support deployment into production.
• Partner with customer execution teams across Europe to deliver successful deployments, covering application design, commissioning, troubleshooting, risk mitigation and system optimization.
• Create and maintain engineering guidelines, templates, standards and validated solution concepts to scale AMMR applications.
• Serve as the technical bridge between customers, Sales, Product Management, R&D and Engineering.
• Capture lessons learned from customer projects and feed feature requests, user stories, bug reports and recommendations back to Product Management and R&D.
• Coach and mentor AMMR Application Engineers across Europe and globally.

Required profile

• 10+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in robotics, industrial automation, autonomous systems or related fields, with application engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture or technical project delivery experience.
• Proven track record delivering customer-facing projects from pilot through full production implementation, including commissioning, troubleshooting, validation and performance optimization.
• Strong systems engineering mindset and ability to translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Collaboration and technical leadership across cross-functional teams, excellent communication and stakeholder management, fluency in English, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Experience coaching or mentoring engineers is an advantage.

Required skills

• Hands-on integration of complex industrial systems, including at least two of: industrial robots, mobile robots (AMRs), PLCs and control systems, functional safety systems, and industrial vision systems.