Lead Robotics Engineer

Job Description

The Nike Explore Team's (NXT) Footwear Engineering and Manufacturing group invents and develops scalable, digitally driven methods of make that enable product innovation, simplify manufacturing and reduce carbon through robust engineering and product integration.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will be working in a world-class R&D facility with a dedicated machine shop, testing lab and product creation team to assist you. You'll have support in embracing the hands-on parts of your role (fabricating, assembling, coding, testing) but approaching with a growth-mindset and a hunger to learn is essential. You will also partner with Technical Program Managers, Process Engineers and Technicians as your project core-team members as well as Materials and Software experts where appropriate. Collaborating with these functions and standing-up new capabilities in Innovation rewards system-based thinking and interdisciplinary problem-solving. You won't have all the answers, but you'll be able to ask good questions across a variety of subject-areas.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a curious and self-driven Lead Robotics Engineer to join our team, an engineer with skills across mechanical, electrical and software and a specific passion for robotics. Your hands-on experiences with machine design, system development and product integration will be the foundation for the strategies you create to build new capabilities in our R&D setting. Creating complex systems in a rapidly changing environment will expose challenges that do not have a clear solution-path. Part of your role will be landscaping and researching new hardware, software and controls tools and becoming a subject matter expert in those areas. This is a Lead role and as such you will be expected to plan and execute strategies that leverage your expertise and develop team members both within and outside the Automation and Robotics function.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• 7+ years of applied experience in system design, integration of hardware solutions, robotics, or other mechatronics roles
• Experience as a technical lead within a multi-disciplinary team that includes vendors, integrators, and software engineers
• Comfortable with hands-on fabrication and assembly
• Comfortable moving fast and working with incomplete information
• Comfortable working in multiple engineering domains
• Experience programming industrial robots (ABB a plus)
• Experience programming microcomputers and microcontrollers Experience in one or more programming languages (Python or C++ a plus)
• Experience with System Analysis (MATLAB a plus
• Software version control experience a plus
• Computer vision experience a plus
• Ability to dream, think, solve, and grow

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you will be assigned to multiple concurrent programs and act as an automation knowledge base and resource to those teams, clearly communicating and explaining automation and robotics capabilities / limitations in both technical and non-technical manners. You will actively seek to understand and interpret program objectives, and you will be responsible for translating those objectives into machine requirements and developing solutions to meet those requirements through an iterative, collaborative and data-driven approach.

Many of the solutions you identify will be electromechanical systems which include robotics, computer vision, sensors and microcontrollers. In early-stage programs, you will design and build machine prototypes to test your ideas and provide a platform for Process Engineers to define key process variables and interactions.

As programs progress, you will continue to develop the core robotics modules and peripheral systems through both hands-on creation and through external partnerships that you manage. You will lead machine landscaping activities for potential off-the-shelf components and sub-systems and partner with Business Development, Legal and Procurement functions to draft agreements with strategic partners and purchase equipment.

After you validate and train others on the new systems, you will continue to support the teams by troubleshooting and upgrading the systems in development, in-particular the software and controls components handling motion and data acquisition. Throughout this journey you will leverage functional processes and best-practices and identify improvements to these tools that can enable

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.