Engineer Staff, Mechanical (Robotics & Automation)

Location: Pathumthani (Navanakorn), Thailand

Company

hirify.global develops products and systems involving telecommunications and optical communications.

What you will do

• Develop automated machines, mechanical hardware, and detailed production-ready designs.
• Evaluate mechanical concepts and apply FEA and CFD to analyze stress, thermal effects, structural dynamics, and electronics cooling.
• Use 2D and 3D CAD tools to create fully documented mechanical designs.
• Design, program, teach, calibrate, and troubleshoot industrial and collaborative robot systems.
• Integrate robots with tooling, sensors, conveyors, PLCs, HMIs, cameras, and factory communication networks.
• Manage design requirements, supplier assessments, project activities, commissioning, and performance verification.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of R&D experience involving full-scale product or machine development, including 3–5 years in industrial robotics, automation, machine design, or system integration.
• Knowledge of mechanical systems, electrical controls, sensors, robotics, industrial automation, pneumatics, machine design, materials, thermodynamics, heat transfer, solid mechanics, and fluid dynamics.
• Experience with robot programming, teaching, calibration, troubleshooting, robot kinematics, end-of-arm tooling, safety devices, and robot accuracy analysis.
• Experience integrating robots with PLCs, sensors, tooling, conveyors, vision systems, and industrial communication protocols such as Ethernet/IP, Profinet, or Modbus TCP.
• Proficiency with 2D/3D mechanical CAD tools, including SolidEdge or SolidWorks, plus GD&T and tolerance analysis.

Nice to have

• Professional certification or training from a robot manufacturer.
• Experience with pick-and-place, assembly, insertion, dispensing, palletizing, inspection, installation, commissioning, qualification, or production ramp-up.
• Experience with suppliers, turnkey machine builders, industrial cameras, lenses, lighting, and image-processing software such as Matrox, Cognex, Keyence, or HALCON.
• Knowledge of OCR, pattern recognition, measurement, defect detection, camera calibration, and camera-to-robot coordinate transformation.
• Excellent spoken, listening, and written English communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary engineering environment.
• Equal opportunity workplace that values diversity.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for applicants and employees with disabilities during hiring and employment.