Robotics Cable Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in cable harness / interconnect engineering, manufacturing engineering, or hardware NPI in robotics, consumer electronics, automotive, or aerospace.
• Familiarity with connectors that use crimp contacts as well as solder contacts: selecting the contact, terminating it correctly, and inspecting the result; plus wire gauge and stranding, shielding, and bundle sizing.
• Able to read, create, and red-line cable drawings and schematics in SolidWorks and/or Siemens NX, and in AutoCAD Electrical.
• Experience managing cable or electromechanical suppliers: quotes, first articles, DFM feedback, and on-time delivery.
• Daily, fluent use of Jira and Google Workspace (especially Sheets) to track a high volume of parts, revisions, and orders.
• Comfort working onsite in a lab / build environment with frequently changing priorities.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

IPC/WHMA-A-620 certification. A current certificate is ideal; an expired one is still a big plus.

• Hands-on experience programming Cirris testers and setting up Schleuniger cut and strip machines.
• Experience with both SolidWorks and Siemens NX / Teamcenter.
• Cable reliability testing (flex, torsion, cyclic life) and failure analysis.
• Familiarity with EtherCAT, CAN / CAN-FD, GMSL coax, and 24–48V power distribution in robots or actuators.
• Experience with overmolding, strain relief, and in-actuator / through-bore cable routing.
• Experience with procurement systems, BOM management, and inventory min/max.
• Comfort using AI agents and automations (or scripting) to cut down repetitive tracking work.

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for a Robotics Cable Engineer to join of the world's leading social networking companies. This individual will work with the Robotics organization. The Robotics Studio builds humanoid robots and data-collection systems (Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, and next-gen Carbon). Cables and connectors are the #1 source of robot downtime, so interconnect is one of the highest-leverage areas on the team. The Robotics Manufacturing team owns the cable harness and interconnect program end to end: architecture input, drawings and revisions, vendor builds, testing, release, and getting cables onto robots.

This is a hybrid engineering + operations role. You will act as the interconnect DRI for six months, owning both the engineering side (connector and wire selection, DFM with suppliers, cable build and reliability testing, design reviews) and the operations side (cable drawing release, Jira tracking, purchase orders, vendor follow-up, inventory, BOM sync). You will be the single point of contact that designers, vendors, the build floor, and the field team come to for anything cable related, and you will keep the work moving without waiting to be told what is next.