Robotics Application Engineer

Our Mission:

At Sunrise Robotics, we are dedicated to augmenting humanity through intelligent robotics. 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.

Our Vision:

We 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.

About the Role:

Sunrise Robotics builds automation that runs in real factories, on real production lines. This role is how that happens.

As 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.

The 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.

What You’ll Do:

• Build robotic manipulation applications end-to-end - integrating perception, reasoning, and motion planning into a coherent system that fulfils defined customer requirements.

• Define 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.

• Deploy applications to real-world and simulated robotic systems, and own the technical delivery from initial design through to iterative improvement.

• Perform A/B testing in production - deploy changes to a canary cell, compare performance against the baseline, and roll out with confidence.

• Set up logging, observability, and alerting to track application health in the field; diagnose and address issues as they arise.

• Log and track anomalies systematically, feeding findings back to improve robotic behaviours and applications over time.