Top Robotics Jobs in Boston, MA

Designs, validates, operates, and continuously improves high-throughput in vitro ADME assays supporting small- and large-molecule discovery. Leads assay miniaturization, laboratory automation, robotics integration, data quality, and production deployment. Collaborates with DMPK, medicinal chemistry, biology, pharmacology, translational sciences, engineering, informatics, and data science teams. Mentors scientists, manages assay performance KPIs, supports quality investigations and CAPA, and advances automated workflows across ADME and drug safety applications.

Owns execution of a complex robotics product program spanning hardware, embedded and cloud software, AI models, apps, operations, quality, and certification. Translates product priorities into plans, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages risks and dependencies, drives release quality, and provides credible status and tradeoff visibility to senior leadership and the CEO.

Own product strategy, priorities, and roadmaps across robotics hardware, software, AI/perception systems, motorcycle safety modules, cloud tools, and companion apps. Translate customer and market feedback into business cases and product decisions, partner with Sales and Design, champion simplicity, and define goals for Program Management execution. Represent product strategy to executive leadership, customers, and the Board.

Leads Takeda’s next-generation biologics strategy and programs from discovery through candidate selection and IND-enabling development. Builds multispecific biologics, protein engineering, AI-enabled design, computational biology, automation, and high-throughput experimentation platforms. Integrates discovery, translational, CMC, regulatory, clinical, and business functions while advancing portfolio value. Recruits and develops multidisciplinary scientific talent, establishes governance and partnerships, and drives measurable improvements in discovery productivity, differentiation, decision quality, and pipeline success.

Leads process analytics method development, automation, robotics-enabled workflows, and platform implementation across pharmaceutical development programs. Establishes analytical standards, governance, roadmaps, and performance measures; transfers methods into laboratories; modernizes data and instrument connectivity; manages vendors; and supports process analytical technology, quality, compliance, and inspection readiness. Provides technical and people leadership while coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and driving scalable, standardized analytical capabilities across sites.

Owns the strategic vision, roadmap, delivery, adoption, and business value of Takeda’s AI-native discovery automation and robotics product family. Leads cross-functional teams across scientific, digital, data, computational, automation, and technology functions; defines AI-enabled laboratory workflows; prioritizes investments; guides platform and integration choices; manages stakeholders and external partners; and drives measurable improvements in laboratory throughput, data quality, scientific impact, and operating efficiency.

Own the technical product roadmap, backlog, architecture direction, and delivery cadence for Takeda’s AI-driven Discovery Automation and Robotics product family. Translate scientific and business goals into technical requirements, manage Agile delivery, guide engineering and data teams, oversee integrations with laboratory platforms, make technical trade-offs, manage risks and external partners, and ensure scalable solutions support automated small-molecule discovery workflows.

Leads technology and business excellence initiatives across high-throughput analytics, PAT, laboratory automation, robotics, and digital transformation. Owns technology prioritization, KPI-driven roadmaps, value capture, governance, change management, risk management, vendor collaboration, and cross-site standardization. Partners with analytical development, process development, quality, compliance, digital, and external stakeholders to implement scalable technologies in regulated GMP and QC environments supporting biologic and small-molecule programs.

Serves as the primary technical advisor for industrial hygiene and safety engineering initiatives. Develops hazard-control strategies, conducts exposure assessments, evaluates robotics and automation risks, supports facility modernization, and delivers onsite surveys and executive reports. Leads risk reduction projects, tracks KPIs, provides coaching and training, and advises stakeholders on regulatory and consensus standards. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel across U.S. and international customer locations.

Provides strategic technical leadership in industrial hygiene and safety engineering for a major account. Responsibilities include hazard identification, exposure assessments, risk prioritization, control evaluation, onsite industrial hygiene sampling, robotics and automation safety reviews, facility modernization support, executive reporting, KPI tracking, training, mentoring, and project leadership. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel across the United States and potentially internationally.

Lead AMP's multidisciplinary engineering organization to define and execute technology vision and roadmap. Responsible for scaling teams across hardware, software, AI, and infrastructure; driving product development, quality systems, and reliable deployments; partnering with execs and cross-functional teams on budgets, prioritization, and metrics; recruiting and mentoring leaders; and balancing short-term delivery with long-term investments to create business value.

Provides strategic technical leadership for industrial hygiene and safety engineering programs supporting a major account. Responsibilities include hazard identification, exposure assessment, risk prioritization, control evaluation, robotics and automation safety reviews, onsite assessments, sampling analysis, facility modernization support, KPI development, executive reporting, training, mentoring, and project leadership. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel and requires expertise in occupational exposure limits, industrial hygiene methods, safety engineering, and regulatory standards.

Provides strategic and technical leadership for industrial hygiene and safety engineering programs supporting a major account. Responsibilities include hazard identification, exposure assessments, risk prioritization, control evaluation, robotics and automation safety reviews, onsite assessments, facility modernization support, executive reporting, KPI tracking, training, mentoring, and project leadership. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel and requires expertise in industrial hygiene sampling, occupational exposure limits, safety engineering, and regulatory standards.

Supports Boston Engineering’s innovation strategy by evaluating technologies and product opportunities, developing technical proposals and communications, advancing continuous improvement, conducting prior-art and patent research, and coordinating with research, manufacturing, supply-chain, and technology partners. The role translates complex engineering concepts for technical and nontechnical audiences and represents the company in industry and business-development settings.

Leads systems architecture for vacuum semiconductor automation platforms, translates customer needs into products, and directs cross-functional engineering projects. Responsibilities include integrating new technologies, solving complex systems problems, mentoring engineers, influencing management, and interacting with customers internationally. The role requires advanced expertise in vacuum systems and design within semiconductor automation, with preference for Creo 3D modeling skills.

Design, develop, integrate, validate, and maintain software for autonomous mobile robots and fleet management systems. Responsibilities include navigation, localization, path planning, robot control, multi-robot coordination, system integration, simulation, debugging, mapping, commissioning, and customer deployments. The role supports industrial robotics solutions through onsite troubleshooting, factory integration, supplier collaboration, and domestic and international travel.

Build and own full-stack AI platform systems: backend services, data pipelines, frontends, and cloud infrastructure. Integrate LLM agents with lab data, instruments, and databases; prototype and harden agentic workflows; write well-tested code; mentor teammates and drive engineering best practices in a research-focused environment.

Design and build custom scientific instruments across mechanical, electronics, and firmware domains; develop and execute NGS workflows and assays; maintain sequencing QC; troubleshoot experiments and validate assays with biologists; write protocols/SOPs; set up and maintain lab instrumentation; iterate prototypes to production and communicate technical tradeoffs to team and stakeholders.

Own the software infrastructure supporting robot data collection and experimentation. Build robot-side and backend services, data pipelines, telemetry, deployment systems, and operator tools. Improve observability, reliability, testing, recovery, and rollback while diagnosing failures across devices, Linux, networking, concurrency, and storage. Collaborate with researchers and operators to prioritize improvements, document systems, and deliver durable fixes that increase experiment throughput and data quality.

Designs and owns complex mechanical subsystems for AI robots, including mechanisms, end effectors, fixtures, mounts, enclosures, and sensor assemblies. Responsibilities span requirements definition, CAD, calculations, prototyping, fabrication, integration, validation, failure analysis, documentation, and reliability improvements. The role collaborates with electrical, software, and research teams to deliver repeatable, maintainable robotic hardware builds.

Tenure-track faculty member researching AI-mediated telepresence and its applications in telemedicine, immersive environments, remote learning, simulation, robotics, rehabilitation, and related fields. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, mentoring students, developing externally funded interdisciplinary research or creative practice, pursuing industry partnerships, and contributing to departmental, college, and university service.

Designs, specifies, implements, and commissions industrial control systems for thermal manufacturing machinery. Responsibilities include motion control, PLCs, electrical hardware, panel schematics, I/O lists, cable design, safety interlocks, vendor coordination, troubleshooting, risk assessments, and closed-loop PID control. The role works cross-functionally to deliver reliable, safe, high-performance automation systems from concept through execution.

Architect and build a company-wide autonomous test platform for robotic systems, including versioned test data schemas, automated pipelines, CI/CD frameworks, hardware-in-the-loop integration, and executive dashboards. Drive adoption across test teams, support reliability modeling with traceable data, establish technical roadmaps, make build-versus-buy decisions, and mentor senior engineers while developing future technical leadership.

Designs and manages data-collection curricula for Atlas autonomous behavior training. Responsibilities include translating training goals into pilot tasks, prioritizing backlogs, creating playbooks, tracking dataset completion, identifying blockers, coaching robot pilots, monitoring demonstration quality, forecasting prop and equipment needs, and maintaining documentation change control. The role coordinates closely with Behavior, Data Operations, annotation, and pilot teams while supporting scheduled and occasional off-hours operations.

Conduct incoming, vendor, design validation, and final quality inspections for robotic manicure machine pods and applicators. Design, build, and validate inspection and test fixtures, perform visual and functional testing, and document results. The role is on-site in Burlington, Massachusetts, with up to 30% domestic and international travel.