Eka Robotics
Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer
Boston Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years; no years stated for preferred experience.
- Education
- B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Supports on-site deployment, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and field operations for robotic manipulation systems, while feeding issues back to engineering to improve fleet reliability.
What you'll do
- Build, configure, calibrate, deploy, and troubleshoot robot arms, grippers, and camera systems on site.
- Triage fleet issues, analyze telemetry and logs, reproduce failures, and drive root-cause resolution.
- Develop diagnostic procedures and deployment documentation, and coordinate with hardware and software R&D teams.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience debugging, troubleshooting, and performing root-cause analysis on complex deployed systems with integrated hardware and software.
- Practical experience parsing log files and writing basic diagnostic scripts in Python.
- Solid understanding of interactions between mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software layers in robotic systems; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- M.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience with learning-based control models, deployment tools, client-site leadership, robot arms and bus architecture, edge compute and containerization, field telemetry, or process architecture.
Tools
Python, Universal Robots, Franka, KUKA, FANUC, EtherCAT, CANbus, Modbus
AI focus
Preferred experience deploying learning-based control models, including imitation learning, RL, or end-to-end vision-to-action policies, on physical manipulators.
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