Senior Proposal Engineer - 3C Automation

About the role

This Senior Proposal Engineer position sits within ABB's Robotics business, which is preparing for its acquisition by SoftBank Group. Reporting to the Sales Support Manager, the role proposes and promotes the best combination of ABB's technologies to Global Key Accounts (GKAs), researching new technologies and market trends needed to solve complex assembly and automation problems. It also involves designing, implementing and scaling automated and semi-automated solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Develop new or improved processes using theoretical and practical engineering, and keep up with technical trends
• Mentor third-party machine and automation suppliers and ecosystem partners, act as technical lead and drive owned projects
• Organize cross-functional reviews of solution requirements, design, qualification and capability
• Create and present design proposals (DFx) covering design architecture, technical approach, customer value and feasibility for MVP/NPI
• Engage ecosystem partners for solution design reviews and technical proposals
• Travel with key account managers to GKA sites for solution proposing, technical promotion and support during MVP/NPI events
• Drive machine qualification including correlation, process capability (CP/CPK) and GR&R, and failure analysis and machine issue resolution
• Analyse data to communicate solution capability to multi-functional teams and provide production support engineering
• Lead planning and execution of technical roadshows and exhibition demos, overseeing quality assurance

Required profile

• Experience in new product introduction and manufacturing operations of 5+ years
• Master's degree in engineering (QS top 200)
• Excellent English; a second foreign language is a plus (Japanese, Korean or Spanish)
• Ability to travel approximately 35%

Required skills

• Working knowledge of robotics (6-axis and/or SCARA), pneumatics, servo motors, motion controllers, PLCs and PC-based control systems
• Understanding of industrial technologies such as calibration, correlation, capability, repeatability and reproducibility
• Basic understanding of financial, business development, value proposition and ROI calculation
• Preferred: CAD, SolidWorks or Omniverse, RobotStudio, GD&T principles, and basic knowledge of Physical AI, synthetic data and world models