What you’d do
- Review or approve designs, calculations, or cost estimates.
- Process or interpret signals or sensor data.
- Debug robotics programs.
- Build, configure, or test robots or robotic applications.
- Create back-ups of robot programs or parameters.
- Provide technical support for robotic systems.
- Design end-of-arm tooling.
- Design robotic systems, such as automatic vehicle control, autonomous vehicles, advanced displays, advanced sensing, robotic platforms, computer vision, or telematics systems.
Skills that matter
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Monitoring
- Reading Comprehension
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Automation Engineer
- Autonomous Vehicle Design Engineer
- Design Engineer
- Factory Automations Engineer
- Research Engineer
- Robotic Systems Engineer
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