Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering
Job description:
Role: Own architecture, technical delivery and production readiness across Integra’s industrial arms, underwater manipulators, mobile platforms and intervention robots. Lead mechanical, embedded, controls and software engineering.
Previous experience: 5+ years in robotics, industrial automation or mechatronic product engineering, including 2+ years leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering commercial robotic systems.
Qualification: B.E./B.Tech or M.Tech in Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Computer Science or a related discipline.
Work arrangement: Full-time, work from the office; production and client site support with travel as required.
Scope of responsibilities:
Define shared modules, interfaces, and performance budgets across mechanics, actuators, electronics, perception, and controls; resolve payload, stiffness, thermal, latency, and cost trade-offs.
Translate customer requirements into specifications, engineering budgets, resourcing and delivery milestones. Own design reviews, integration plans and factory/site acceptance criteria.
Approve releases against simulation, bench, endurance and field evidence. Verify local motion limits, interlocks and safe behaviour under faults or network loss; drive failure analysis.
Lead teleoperation and automation integration, separate autonomous and operator demonstration data capture, and the move to supervised autonomy through policy validation and controlled deployment.
Own production transfer, BOM/configuration control, supplier technical quality and assembly/calibration procedures. Track first pass yield, field reliability, unit cost and lead time.
Hire and mentor engineering leads, resolve technical bottlenecks and enforce review discipline. Track task success, cycle time and interventions per operating hour against release criteria.
Software and technical experience:
Engineering review capability: Fusion 360 for mechanical design, drawings and simulation; ROS 2/ros2_control, C++/Python and PLC workflows; Gazebo or MuJoCo; Git, automated tests and requirements/revision tracking.
Must have qualifications:
Led multidisciplinary teams delivering robotic products from architecture and prototype through factory tests, site acceptance and repeat production.
Can defend mechanical, electrical and control tradeoffs using calculations, measured performance, failure analysis and safety validation.
Proven ownership of engineering hiring, delivery plans, budgets and quality, with evidence of improved reliability, cost or deployment time.
Preferred qualifications:
Scaled a modular robot platform across multiple payloads, end effectors or industrial applications.
Experience with underwater or tracked robots, hazardous environments and robot or functional safety validation.
Led teleoperation, robot learning data capture or supervised autonomy programmes with validated policies and deployment rollback.
Required evidence of experience:
Provide two commercial deployment examples with your architecture decisions, team scope, acceptance results and quantified cost, reliability or delivery improvements.

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