Solution Engineer (gn)

Dresden, Germany

About the role

Your mission

At Wandelbots, we want to make building robotic applications radically easier. With Wandelbots NOVA, our software platform, automation engineers, system integrators and developers can program, simulate and run industrial robots across brands.

As a Solution Engineer, you bring NOVA to life in real customer applications. You work hands-on in projects delivered by our own team, and you guide customers and partners who build their own solutions with NOVA. You enable them to become successful and independent with our product, and you bring what you learn in the field back to our product and engineering teams.

What you do Customer projects (Wandelbots-delivered)

  • You are part of our project teams: you help design, implement and commission robotic applications built on NOVA, from simulation to the real cell.
  • You know these projects inside out and become the technical point of contact for the customer after go-live, including support and further development. Customer & partner projects
  • You accompany projects that customers and integration partners implement themselves, as their technical sparring partner.
  • You review solution architectures, help with tricky technical questions and unblock teams on site or remotely. Enablement
  • You run trainings, workshops and onboarding sessions for customers and partners.
  • You build example applications, templates and best practices, and contribute to our documentation. Product feedback
  • You translate insights from the field into concrete product improvements together with Product and Engineering.
  • You help to diagnose and resolve technical issues around NOVA, its SDKs and APIs.

Your profile

  • You have several years of experience as an automation, robotics or application engineer, ideally in customer-facing projects.
  • You have hands-on experience with industrial robots (e.g. KUKA, ABB, FANUC, Universal Robots, Yaskawa) and know typical applications such as handling, palletizing or machine tending.
  • You are comfortable writing code, ideally in Python.
  • You understand industrial networks and communication (TCP/IP, PROFINET/EtherNet/IP, OPC UA) and can get a robot cell connected.
  • You are curious about AI and use it in your daily work, e.g. for development or for robotic applications.
  • You can explain technical concepts clearly and enjoy teaching others.
  • You communicate confidently and empathetically with customers and partners.
  • You are fluent in German (C1 or higher) and English, written and spoken.
  • You hold a driving license and are open to regular travel to customer sites.
  • You are based in Dresden, or willing to move or commute to spend about 2/3 of your time at our Dresden shopfloor, especially during the first 6 months. You are awesome if
  • You have experience with simulation, especially NVIDIA Omniverse / Isaac Sim.
  • You have worked with TypeScript, C++, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), GitLab or GitHub.
  • You have experience with ROS.
  • You have worked for a system integrator or in a technical consulting or presales role.
  • You have experience with machine vision or AI-based robotic applications.

Why us?

Make an impact! Work on a deep-tech Physical AI product that brings intelligence to the shop floor and makes industrial robotics more accessible, flexible and scalable. Become a crucial part of something new, big and exciting, and see your work make a real difference in industry and society.

Our teams inspire! Cross-functional collaboration is key. You’ll work with 150+ colleagues in international teams who value knowledge sharing and unconventional ways of getting things done.

Be authentic! Work in a value-driven environment where not everything is perfect yet, but we’re working on it. Your feedback is wanted, and you’ll receive feedback and appreciation for your work in return.

Help others! Take up to 3 days of volunteer time off to support your favorite charity.

Develop yourself! We offer training, coaching, language courses and mental health support, so you can grow both personally and professionally.

And there’s even more! Hybrid work (work from anywhere in the EU), 30 days of vacation plus extra time off between Christmas and New Year, subsidied lunch, snacks and drinks, a public transport job ticket, fitness and yoga classes, Wellhub and 100% of your pay while caring for a sick child.

About Wandelbots

Wandelbots is a robotic software company based in Dresden, Germany.

With its no-code solution Wandelbots Teaching and the unified Wandelbots Developer Platform, the company enables the programming-free and uniform operation of robots. Through Wandelbots Teaching, working with different types of robots from a large scale of brands becomes effortless, and everyone can teach robots after a brief training. In this way, Wandelbots provides that robot programming is no longer the preserve of experts and carries out the automation process up to 20 times faster and ten times more cost-effectively.

This advanced technology has been implemented in robots from Universal Robots and Yaskawa and in the manufacturing operations of, among others, VW, Bayer, and Fraunhofer. The fast-growing company continues building new partnerships with OT system integrators in Germany, Europe, and the USA.

Among others, the German Start-up Award and the Sachsen Gründerpreis have been awarded to Wandelbots, which has grown from a start-up to an internationally recognized company with over 170 employees in a brief time.

Since its foundation in 2017, the company has raised a total of $123 million in funding from investors such as Insight Partners, Microsoft, and Next47 for further investments in products and platforms. Moreover, the company keeps expanding into new markets.

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Job details

Location

Dresden, Germany

Company

NameWandelbots
IndustryAI
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$123M

Last stage

Series C

Investors

Insight Partners
MMicrosoft
NNext47
883North
EEQT

Founders

GP

Georg Püschel

Co-Founder

Christian Piechnick

Christian Piechnick

Co-Founder & CEO

LinkedIn
MP

Maria Piechnick

Co-Founder

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.