Conveyor Engineering Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Create and manage standard conveyor architecture, reusable components, layout guidelines, and interface specifications for the Stride product platform.

• Develop and document technical standards, reference designs, design templates, and assumptions for simulations.

• Spearhead simulation, system behavior analysis, and trade studies to assess conveyor topology, accumulation, buffering, station-to-station flow, equipment selection, spatial footprint, costs, throughput, robustness, bottlenecks, and layout alternatives.

• Construct and sustain simulation models, reusable simulation elements, and validation techniques.

• Collaborate with Controls and Software teams to ensure that conveyor architecture and simulation models align with sensing, PLC/control logic, fault recovery, traffic management, and system behavior.

• Work alongside Applications Engineering for solution feasibility reviews.

• Join forces with Solutions Architecture to provide design guidance, layout constraints, and customer-facing system configurations.

• Assess third-party conveyor components, vendor capabilities, and integration strategies.

• Convert deployment feedback, customer limitations, field challenges, and manufacturing insights into enhanced standards and product design updates.

• Keep updated conveyor and simulation documentation, including standard layouts, interface control documents, design guides, modeling assumptions, validation techniques, and engineering decision records.

• Offer technical leadership and mentorship in conveyor optimization, simulation techniques, and cross-functional design decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in conveyor design, accumulation, buffering, merges, diverts, station interfaces, equipment utilization, and material flow constraints.

• Proficiency with AutoCAD or a comparable 2D/3D layout tool.

• Familiarity with Emulate3D / Sim3D from Rockwell Automation or a similar simulation/modeling tool.

• Strong grasp of throughput, bottlenecks, service access, safety, installation, maintainability, MTBF/MTTR, OEE, and operational robustness.

• Ability to navigate clear engineering trade-offs across performance, cost, footprint, manufacturability, serviceability, customer requirements, and system behavior.

• Experience in providing technical leadership to engineers, including setting direction, reviewing work, mentoring team members, and coordinating execution across various disciplines.

• Ability to articulate and convey technical strategy, assumptions, priorities, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, operations, applications, and solutions architecture teams.

• Familiarity with PLC systems or a strong understanding of industrial controls.

• Background in working with conveyor vendors, systems integrators, installation teams, customer site engineering teams, or automation partners.

• Experience in developing standards, design guides, templates, or reusable engineering tools.

• Proficient in Python and/or C++ for simulation, automation, data analysis, tooling, or performance profiling.

• Experience with Nvidia Omniverse, digital twins, virtual commissioning, MBSE tools, or other system modeling frameworks.

• Background in developing reusable simulation components, APIs, SDKs, or modeling tools.

• Experience with robotics simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, software-in-the-loop testing, or production software integration.

• Experience in designing conveyor systems for robotic automation, fulfillment, parcel, logistics, manufacturing, or warehouse automation settings.

• Familiarity with integrating conveyor systems with robots, sorters, scanners, sensors, PLCs, safety systems, WMS/WES/WCS platforms, or customer facility controls.

• Familiarity with Git, Jira, Linux / Ubuntu environments, CI/CD practices, code reviews, or modern software development workflows.

• A bachelor's degree in a related technical field is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Professional development opportunities and continued education support.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.