Senior Product Architect

AutoStore™ holds a simple yet powerful vision: to store and move things for everyone, everywhere. Founded in Norway, we've grown into a global technology company. AutoStore uses advanced software to automate and orchestrate order fulfillment. Our goal is to ensure orders arrive faster than ever, with minimal environmental impact. That’s how we help brands exceed customer expectations.

We have more than 1600 systems in nearly 60 countries, and we grow continuously as a community of employees, partners, customers, suppliers, and connected technologies. Automation should make life easier, and by listening carefully to our community, we innovate to meet the industry’s most complex needs. With AutoStore™, brands gain speed, efficiency, and improved workplaces. And much more floor space.

AutoStore – moving things forward.

The Role: The Systems Architecture team in AutoStore has the overarching responsibility for guiding the development team HW and SW solutions to optimize the system performance. This responsibility bridges between the customer facing product management branch, and the technically oriented R&D teams to translate market requirements into technical product requirements while considering the overall system performance. This requires deep and broad insight into the AutoStore system, as well as available technologies.

AutoStore is hiring a Senior Product Architect to join our Systems Architecture team. This group works with Product and Engineering leadership to ensure new product designs are feasible, worthwhile, and adhere to the long term technical roadmap of the overall system. We’d like to the successful candidate to have a background in mechanical/electromechanical engineering and to demonstrate significant business savvy.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Partake in customer and partner meetings alongside Product Management to build firsthand insight into the challenges and use cases that need to be solved.
• Architect and simulate system level solutions.
• Translate market requirements into technical product requirements while considering the overall system performance.
• Effectively analyze and decompose system designs into product requirements.
• Communicate with the product development teams and help guide them during the concept design phase of new products.
• Drive innovation and creative thinking across R&D

Key Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering required
• 10+ years of experience within mechanical design, robotics, electronics, embedded engineering. The broader your scope, the better
• 5+ years of experience in a technical client facing capacity. Ideally also facing internal Product Management teams.
• Strong team player, and an ability to work with a distributed, diverse team
• Substantial analytical abilities and a desire to learn every facet of a product and system.
• Good communication skills and the ability to explain technical aspects of systems in simplified terms.
• Work experience within the warehouse and logistics industry equipment is a plus.
• Work experience with full cycle product development is a plus.
• Work experience with software development and software architecture is a plus.

We Offer: AutoStore believes in taking care of employees and is dedicated to providing a supportive and rewarding work environment. Join us in our mission to store and move things for everyone, everywhere.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit sharing contribution
• Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship/coaching programs with external industry leaders
• Additional benefits include Group Life Insurance, Voluntary Additional Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance programs, and more!

AutoStore is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions, and lactation), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.