Fabtech Robotics | Ireland
Fabtech Robotics designs and delivers bespoke industrial robotic fabrication systems for production environments, including robotic welding, grinding, surface finishing, and painting. Our work combines deep industrial robotics experience with modern software-driven automation to solve complex manufacturing challenges on real factory floors.
We are looking for a Senior Robotics Engineer to play a key role in the design, development, and delivery of advanced robotic cells, with a strong focus on software-driven automation, vision integration, and scalable robot control architectures.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role working across robotics software, industrial robot programming, and system commissioning.
What you will work on
* Designing, programming, and commissioning industrial robotic fabrication cells
* Developing software-driven workflows to reduce manual robot teaching, including scan- plan-execute approaches
* Integrating 3D vision systems to identify surfaces, features, and process regions
* Generating and optimizing robot paths with awareness of collisions, reachability, and process constraints
* Using and extending planning frameworks (e.g. ROS / ROS2, MoveIt-style concepts) where appropriate
* Integrating software-based planning and logic with OEM robot controllers (ABB initially)
* Offline programming and simulation to validate cell layouts, reachability, and cycle times
* Developing and optimising robotic processes for welding, grinding, surface finishing, and painting
* Supporting FAT/SAT, on-site installation, and customer acceptance
* Troubleshooting and improving systems based on production feedback
* Contributing to the evolution of Fabtech's robotics software and system architecture
What we are looking for
Strong hands-on experience in several of the following areas:
* Industrial robotics (ABB, FANUC, KUKA, Yaskawa, UR, or similar)
* Robot cell design, integration, and commissioning
* OEM tools such as RobotStudio, RoboGuide, WorkVisual, or equivalent
* Programming in C++ and/or Python
* Practical experience using ROS or ROS2 in robotic systems
* Motion planning, toolpath generation, or collision avoidance
* Vision systems, point clouds, or geometry-based processing
* Working directly on factory floors and customer sites
You do not need experience in every area, but you should be comfortable owning systems end-to-end and working close to real hardware.
What matters most
* You have delivered real robotic systems into production environments
* You are comfortable debugging machines under time pressure
* You understand the trade-offs between clean software design and industrial constraints
* You take ownership and follow systems through commissioning and acceptance
* You are interested in growing technical responsibility and influence over time
What this role is not
* Not a research or academic position
* Not a graduate or junior role
* Not a remote-only software job
Compensation & progression
* Competitive salary based on experience
* Clear technical progression as responsibility grows
* Opportunity to take ownership of key robotics systems and influence technical direction
Interested?
If you enjoy building real industrial robotic systems, working at the intersection of software and hardware, and taking responsibility from design through commissioning, we would like to hear from you.