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Applications Engineering Manager (Boston)

Standard Bots· Applications Engineering
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Remote$140k - $180k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Applications Engineering Manager leading a hands-on team of Applications Engineers in a territorial role, combining technical leadership on factory floor with people management, customer ownership, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a team of Applications Engineers across your territory -- setting expectations, coaching on technical and customer-facing skills, and building a team that executes at a high level
  • Own capacity planning and workload distribution across your team -- ensuring the right engineer is on the right job
  • Set and uphold technical and cultural standards for the team; lead by example
  • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance conversations, and development planning
  • Own the applications engineering function for your territory from pre-sales POC support through post-install customer success
  • Serve as senior technical escalation point for complex integrations or challenging installs
  • Partner with Regional Sales Manager on territory priorities, pipeline, and customer strategy
  • Maintain relationships with key customer accounts in the territory
  • Stay hands-on with solution design, integration reviews, cell commissioning, and support for installs
  • Lead or co-lead technically complex customer engagements
  • Review and sign off on designs, POCs, and integration plans produced by the team
  • Travel to customer sites up to 25% for escalations and key engagements
  • Define and enforce standard operating practices, documentation, handoffs, training quality
  • Provide feedback loops to broader organization and contribute to playbooks and training materials

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or related engineering discipline – or equivalent hands-on experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on applications engineering, systems integration, or automation engineering experience
  • 2+ years of people management or team lead experience
  • Strong customer-facing presence and ability to manage difficult conversations
  • Experience managing a distributed team or territory
  • Comfort with up to 25% domestic travel
  • Fluency across mechanical, electrical, and software domains (PLC programming and ladder logic, pneumatics, DC power systems, robot programming, Python scripting, CAD)
  • Industrial automation background with hands-on field experience

Skills

Required:Mechanical, Electrical, and software fluencyPeople management

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee Stock Options
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Standard Bots

The all-in-one, most intuitive, most affordable industrial cobots.

Standard Bots is a company that designs and manufactures industrial collaborative robots (cobots), providing affordable, intuitive, AI-native robotic solutions for automation across various industries.

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