Research Engineer - Robot Skills

Key Skills

AWS, Azure, C++, Docker, HTML, JavaScript, NumPy, Python Programming, QlikView

Job Description

Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future.

At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.

This is a temporary position valid for one year from on-boarding time.

Join ABB and work in a team that is dedicated to creating a future where innovative digital technologies allow greater access to cleaner energy.

ABB Corporate Research Center in Sweden is located in Västerås, about 100 kilometers west of Stockholm. Together with our colleagues in other R&D centers we develop technologies for future products and services of ABB's core businesses.

You will be part of the Robotics team at ABB Corporate Research in Västerås Sweden. In our role as ABB Corporate Research, we ensure ABB's technology competitiveness now and in future.

In the Robotics team we focus on robot concepts / design, autonomous and intelligent robot, and robot applications in both industrial and service robot segments. Our research activities usually formulated as technology pre-study and technology development projects. We work closely with ABB's robotics business to ensure our research will bring unique value for ABB future business. At the same time, we have close collaboration with academic world to bridge the academic and industrial research. In this team, one of our historical highlights is the creation and development of the dual-arm YuMi robot concept and the mobile YuMi concept.

This position reports to

Robotics and Mechatronics Team Manager

Your responsibilities

• You will be part of creating new technologies that is crucial for the factory-of-the-future in discrete manufacturing. More specifically, the focus will be mainly to develop robot skills and grasping technologies, to explore autonomous robot manipulating scenarios under unstructured environments
• For new robot application segments, you are expected to develop key enabling technologies for robotized solutions, such as robot motion planning, environment awareness, object recognition and manipulation, etc. This involves theoretical analysis and modeling, tuning algorithms in simulation environment, and deploying algorithms to real systems with further calibration and tuning
• Machine learning is widely used in dealing with robot application challenges under unstructured environment. relevant knowledge and experience will be a great merit
• Technologies developed need to be deployed on real robot system for verification and validation. Hands-on/experimental work is necessary hence relevant experience is appreciated
• The technology development results need to be documented as technical reports, invention disclosures, scientific articles

Working in an international team, you are expected to drive specific activities to successful conclusion while following a visionary continuity in your work, both in a team and independently

Your background

• Have a MSc or PhD degree of education in the subjects of robotics/control or computer science.
• Good theoretical knowledge and experience in the fields of robot control, object grasping / manipulating, and good understanding of robot applications both in simulation and with real robots. Good knowledge base for autonomous and intelligent mobile robotics, machine learning
• Software skills in C++ and Python are important and experience of ROS is an advantage
• Analytical, but also be hands-on to be able to deploy solution into ABB robot system for the required technology readiness level
• Be capable of working both independently and in a team
• Fluent in written and verbal English

More about us

Bring your very own sense of pride and purpose as you help us drive forward the Fourth Industrial Revolution – creating a sustainable future for our planet, and your career. Join ABB and harness the power of our diverse global network, as you collaborate with and learn from our world-class teams. Above all, challenge yourself every day. Let’s write the future, together.

Recruiting Manager Liwei Qi, +46 73 021 23 09, will answer your questions about the position. Union representatives – Sveriges Ingenjörer: Mikael Blomqvist, +46 768 06 00 11; Ledarna: Lenny Larsson, +46 706 32 85 477; Unionen: Ing-Marie B Lindgren-Turpeinen, +46 703 30 75 40.

Please apply latest by the 30th of October, 2023.

We look forward to receiving your application (PDF documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.