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About the Role
As a Field Application Engineer, you will work directly with customers across Europe to plan, simulate, and deploy vision-guided robotics applications. You will act as a consultant and educator, guiding them to maximize their investment. You will be the expert who can troubleshoot a calibration issue in the morning and lead a capability workshop in the afternoon. Your success will be measured not only by completed deployments but by customers who genuinely understand and expand the capabilities of Apera's technology. You will be supported with direct mentorship from our European Technical Lead, providing a strong foundation for growth as you build expertise and customer relationships.
Responsibilities
- Lead on-site installations and commissioning of Apera's vision software, including site assessments, system configuration, and calibration for production environments.
- Deliver hands-on training and build software familiarity across customer teams.
- Engage with plant managers, automation engineers, and operations leads to understand processes and identify value creation opportunities.
- Diagnose and resolve post-install issues, coordinating with internal teams as needed.
- Document field observations, recurring challenges, customer questions, and application patterns to provide feedback for product improvement.
Requirements
- Experience in robotics, machine vision, industrial automation, or a closely related technical field.
- Comfortable working on production floors and interacting with operational staff.
- Ability to adapt communication style for technical calibration sessions and consultative conversations.
- Genuine interest in customer empowerment and adoption of deployed technology.
- Self-directed and organized, capable of managing schedule, travel, and priorities across a multi-country territory.
- Enthusiasm for a primarily field-based and travel-heavy role.
Skills
- Robotics
- Machine vision
- Industrial automation
- Calibration
- System configuration
- Customer training
- Problem diagnosis
- Technical documentation
- FANUC
- KUKA
- ABB
Location
- Europe
- Germany
Work Type
- Field-based
- Travel-heavy
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Field Application Engineer
- FAE
- Application specialist
- Systems integrator
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary
- Performance-based variable component
- Equity participation
Benefits
- Full local employment compliance
- Benefits
- Payroll in country of residence
About the Company
- Apera is an innovative, Vancouver-based company at the forefront of robotics, AI, and machine vision.
- Recognized with the 2025 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leadership Award and the 2024 BC Tech "Company of the Year, Growth" award.
- Apera AI helps manufacturers make their factories more flexible and productive.
- Robots enhanced with Apera's software have 4D Vision — the ability to see and grasp objects with human-like capability.
- Challenging applications such as bin picking, sorting, packaging, and assembly are now open to fast, precise, and reliable automation.
- We work with the world's leading automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.
- Our portfolio spans Vue (our 4D Vision software), Forge (a no-code simulation and AI training studio), and VuePod (a turnkey bin-picking cell).
- Apera AI develops vision software that enables industrial robots to see and adapt, allowing manufacturers to automate applications previously too complex, variable, or costly for traditional systems.
- Our award-winning 4D Vision™ software is used in automotive, heavy industry, and industrial automation production facilities, experiencing rapid growth across Europe.
- We are a small, high-performing team developing a technically demanding solution in a market that is ready for it.
- Every employee takes genuine ownership and works with a high degree of autonomy.
Equal Opportunity
- This role is employed through an Employer of Record arrangement, providing full local employment compliance, benefits, and payroll in your country of residence.