Systems Engineering

Systems Engineer

Robotics & Automation

Work LocationPune

Work ModeIn Campus

DepartmentSystems Engineering

Employment TypeFull-Time

Reporting ToHead of Systems Engineering

Experience3–6 years

ABOUT US

Unbox Robotics is a deep-tech robotics company building the world's most space-efficient warehouse sorting systems. Our swarm robotics platform — UnboxSort — enables e-commerce, retail, and 3PL operators to sort at 3–5× the throughput of conventional systems, in a fraction of the floor space.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Pune, we operate across 20+ sites in 9 countries, serving leading players in e-commerce, retail, CEP, and 3PL across India, Europe, and the USA. Series B funded, we are scaling rapidly toward our next phase of global growth.

We believe great robots are built on rigorous engineering — and Systems Engineering is where that rigour begins.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Own the definition, integration, and validation of a robotic subsystem or an end-to-end function. Your scope could include motion execution, sensing, robot-to-server communication, charging, or fault recovery.

You will translate operational needs into specifications, maintain interfaces across engineering teams, and demonstrate that the delivered function meets its performance, reliability, and cost targets. Success in this role means your subsystem has an agreed operational purpose, clear requirements, controlled interfaces, and complete acceptance evidence — with documents and the implemented system staying aligned as changes occur, and manufacturing and field teams able to reproduce expected performance and diagnose failures.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Operational Definition & Specifications

Contribute to the system Concept of Operations (ConOps) and develop detailed scenarios for your scope, including startup, normal operation, shutdown, maintenance, failures, and recovery

Author and maintain assigned portions of the System Specification Document (SSD) and the complete specifications for your subsystem or function

Define measurable requirements, constraints, assumptions, and acceptance criteria

Functional Design & Interfaces

Develop functional breakdowns, state machines, sequence diagrams, and subsystem design descriptions with the relevant engineering teams

Own Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for your scope, defining applicable mechanical and electrical interfaces, signals, units, coordinate frames, message formats, timing, timeouts, and compatibility requirements

Engineering Trade-offs & Integration

Analyse accuracy, latency, bandwidth, power, compute, and component-cost requirements, and validate assumptions through calculations and physical measurements

Plan bring-up and integration activities, resolve dependencies, and maintain a reproducible configuration across hardware, firmware, and software

Verification & Validation

Author and execute plans that demonstrate compliance with requirements and suitability for intended operating scenarios

Select appropriate simulation, replay, bench, hardware-in-the-loop, and robot tests

Failure Behaviour & Change Control

Work with domain engineers to define detection, degraded operation, recovery, and diagnostics

Lead investigations across hardware and software boundaries and verify corrective actions

Assess changes against requirements, interfaces, risks, and existing test evidence; maintain traceability and bring proposed changes through technical review

Production & Field Feedback

Support calibration procedures, manufacturing acceptance tests, pilot deployments, and improvements based on operational data

Engineering Deliverables You Will Own

Subsystem specifications and assigned system-level requirements

ConOps contributions, functional diagrams, and operating-state descriptions

ICDs and subsystem design descriptions

Performance budgets and documented trade studies

Verification and validation plans, traceability records, and acceptance reports

Change-impact assessments and investigation reports

REQUIREMENTS

Must Have

Experience delivering a robotic, embedded, automation, or electromechanical subsystem into real operation

Technical depth in at least one discipline, and the ability to reason across mechanics, electronics, controls, firmware, and software

Demonstrated ability to write testable requirements and useful interface specifications

Experience using calculations, logs, controlled experiments, and instrumentation to identify root causes

Python or comparable scripting proficiency, with the ability to understand relevant embedded or robotics software

Working knowledge of communication interfaces and timing behaviour in embedded or distributed systems

Ability to lead technical reviews and take an ambiguous problem through to a verified outcome

Good to Have

Mobile robots and fleet coordination

Calibration and control-system characterisation

Automated testing

Failure-mode analysis

Manufacturing test

Requirements-management tools

Industrial deployments

ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES

Desired Qualification

Relevant engineering education or equivalent practical experience

Work Experience

3–6 years delivering robotic, embedded, automation, or electromechanical subsystems

WE VALUE

Ownership — carries a subsystem from definition through to field performance

Clarity — writes requirements and interfaces others can build and test against

Evidence-Based Decisions — backs trade-offs with calculations, logs, and measurements

Cross-Disciplinary Thinking — reasons across mechanics, electronics, controls, firmware, and software

Closure on Ambiguity — turns open-ended problems into verified outcomes

WHY JOIN US

Own a real piece of a robotic platform that runs in live warehouses. Your specifications, interfaces, and acceptance evidence will directly determine how reliably Unbox Robotics’ fleets perform at customer sites across India, Europe, and the USA.

You won’t just own a subsystem.

You’ll own the proof that it works — in the warehouse, at scale.

Work Location: Pune

Work Mode: In Campus

Salary Range: Competitive Salary