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Our mission is to elevate the world of manufacturing by introducing intelligent, flexible robots that enhance human capabilities and existing machinery, ushering in the next era of production at higher quality, with less waste, and lower cost.\nOur Vision:\nWe see a future where every element of manufacturing, from design to assembly, is optimised with intelligent automation. Our vision is to integrate flexible robotic solutions, based on generic hardware and advanced software/AI capabilities, into manufacturing, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises, to make automation economically viable and accessible, for all sizes of manufacturers. We are not just building robots; we are creating the strategically crucial components for autonomous, intelligent agents of the future.\nAbout the Role:\nSunrise Robotics builds automation that runs in real factories, on real production lines. This role is how that happens.\nAs a Robotics Application Engineer, you will take our platform's capabilities - perception, motion planning, manipulation - and build the applications that make a robotic cell do something tangible, useful, and production-ready for a customer. You decide how the pieces fit together. You define the test plan. You validate it works under pressure. You sign it off.\nThe work is technical and hands-on. You will be close to our robotics cells, close to the engineering teams building the platform, and close to the moment a cell goes live.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nBuild robotic manipulation applications end-to-end - integrating perception, reasoning, and motion planning into a coherent system that fulfils defined customer requirements.\n\nDefine and execute test plans to verify application performance against customer KPIs; identify edge cases, recovery paths, and exception handling before anything reaches a production environment.\n\nDeploy applications to real-world and simulated robotic systems, and own the technical delivery from initial design through to iterative improvement.\n\nPerform A/B testing in production - deploy changes to a canary cell, compare performance against the baseline, and roll out with confidence.\n\nSet up logging, observability, and alerting to track application health in the field; diagnose and address issues as they arise.\n\nLog and track anomalies systematically, feeding findings back to improve robotic behaviours and applications over time.\n\nSet up and maintain software for robot manipulators and grippers.\n\nSupport our Forward Deploy Engineering team before commissioning and when technical issues escalate beyond field resolution.\n\nContribute in steering the overall cell development product roadmap with your experience obtained developing real-world robotic applications.\n\nWhat You’ll Need:\nHands-on experience implementing robotic manipulation systems in ROS2 across the full stack - perception, reasoning, and motion planning.\n\nStrong software engineering skills in Python, with solid knowledge of Docker for building, deploying, and managing robotics software.\n\nExperience deploying complex software systems to production and supporting them in the field.\n\nExperience developing with behaviour trees, state machines, or similar orchestration components.\n\nThe ability to design test plans, define edge cases, and verify system performance across multiple KPIs.\n\nStrong troubleshooting and debugging skills across systems that span both software and hardware.\n\nClear written and verbal communication - able to explain technical decisions concisely to people across engineering, AI, and customer-facing teams.\n\nWhat Makes You Stand Out:\nExperience with perception, AI deployment, or machine vision systems.\n\nExperience working with ABB robots\n\nFamiliarity with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Omniverse, or similar simulation platforms.\n\nA master's degree in robotics, software engineering, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience.\n\nWhy Us:\nWe're building flexible robotic automation that runs in live manufacturing environments across Europe - and this role sits at the point where the platform becomes a product.\nDirect impact: When a cell hits its throughput targets on a customer's production floor, that's your work. 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