Senior Production Engineer (m/f/d)

Your Mission

As a Senior Production Engineer (m/f/d) in our Robotic Assembly team, you will be instrumental in scaling our manufacturing capabilities, driving efficiency, and ensuring consistent product quality. You’ll focus on optimizing assembly processes, ensuring reliability of testing systems, and applying Design for Manufacturing principles to support high-volume, scalable production.

With over €50 million in funding from renowned VCs such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, as well as the founders of UiPath, Helsing, Pitch and more, we are ideally positioned to realise our vision - and we need the best talent to make it happen.

Key Responsibilities

Maximize Manufacturing Efficiency & Throughput

• Analyze production performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement process improvements
• Increase throughput while maintaining quality and safety standards
• Drive Lean and continuous improvement initiatives in robotic subassembly and final assembly

Ensure Testing Asset Reliability & High Quality Standards

• Support, improve, and maintain end-of-line testing infrastructure
• Ensure stable test coverage and reliable pass/fail criteria across our production U-Cells
• Partner with Engineering to investigate non-conformities, root causes and improve first-pass yield

Integrate Design for Manufacturing (DfM)

• Collaborate with Product Engineering to ensure manufacturability of new designs
• Influence design decisions through early-stage feedback and pilot production reviews
• Develop tooling, production helpers, and fixtures to support efficient, scalable assembly processes

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics or Industrial Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in a production, assembly, or manufacturing engineering role, ideally in a fast-paced hardware or robotics environment
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, DfM, and assembly line optimization
• Experience working with electromechanical products and scaling-to-high-volume production
• Hands-on mindset with a proactive and solution-oriented approach
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with design, operations, quality, and leadership teams
• Very good written and spoken German and English skills

Why us?

• Work with us on pioneering technology in software-defined modular robotics and pioneer solutions to the shortage of skilled labour in the industry
• Versatile, responsible and independent work in a young and dynamic start-up.
• Flat hierarchies with an open and direct feedback culture, including 360° development feedback aimed at holistic professional development.
• Train in over 7,200 partner studios across Germany for just €30 a month with your subsidised Wellpass membership.
• Regular team events (game nights, ski trips and much more) - teamwork makes the dream work!

Do you share our passion for our ground-breaking robot technology and would you like to be part of our dynamic growth? You will carry out your own projects, implement innovative solutions and be recognised for your successes!
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About us

RobCo is spearheading a revolution in robotics, empowering businesses to thrive by supercharging productivity and freeing them from labor shortage. We are searching for you to build RobCo into the category-leading robotics company in Europe and the US. We’ve raised more than $50 million from the world’s best VCs, such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, as well as the founders of UiPath, Helsing, Pitch, and other companies to fulfill our mission.
At RobCo, applicants are selected regardless of ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation. All decisions throughout the recruitment process are based solely on the qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience of the applicants and the relevant business requirements.