Robotics & Automation Engineer

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Position: Robotics & Automation Engineer
Location: Madrid (Chamberí area).

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INSUD PHARMA operates across the entire pharmaceutical value chain, providing specialized knowledge and experience in scientific research, development, manufacturing, sales, and marketing of a wide range of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), finished dosage forms (FDF), and branded pharmaceutical products, adding value to human and animal health.

The activities of INSUD PHARMA are organized into three synergistic business areas: Industrial (Chemo), Branded (Exeltis), and Biotech (mAbxience), with over 9,000 professionals in more than 50 countries, 20 state-of-the-art facilities, 15 specialized R&D centers, 12 commercial offices, and more than 35 pharmaceutical subsidiaries, serving 1,150 customers in 96 countries worldwide. INSUD PHARMA believes in innovation and sustainable development.

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What are we looking for?

AI Labs is Insud Pharma's applied AI and advanced engineering team. We develop and deploy technologies that create measurable impact across laboratories, manufacturing, R&D, and other areas of the company.

We are expanding our automation and robotics capability and recruiting several engineers with complementary backgrounds in laboratory automation, scientific instrumentation, robotics, autonomous systems, and physical AI.

Depending on your background, you may focus more deeply on laboratory automation and systems integration , working with technology partners to deliver and scale automation pilots, or on robotics and autonomous system s, combining near-term deployments with longer-term work in advanced robotics and physical AI.

You will join at an early stage and help build this capability from the ground up: identifying high-value opportunities, designing technical solutions, integrating hardware and software, and taking systems from prototype through pilot deployment and, where successful, toward operational scale.

How the team works:

AI Labs combines the pace and ownership of a startup with the reach and resources of an international pharmaceutical group.

Our culture is collaborative, practical, and technically ambitious. We prototype quickly, test ideas against real operational problems, and invest in the engineering required to turn successful pilots into reliable systems.

These positions are based in our Madrid office and involve hands-on collaboration with laboratories, manufacturing sites, equipment vendors, technology partners, universities, and research organization.

The challenge

Your focus will depend on your experience and specialization. You may:
Identify and prioritize opportunities to automate laboratory processes, experimental workflows, and other physical operations.
Design and deploy systems that connect scientific instruments, sensors, robotics, automation equipment, software, data platforms, and AI capabilities.
Integrate laboratory instruments and automation platforms, creating reliable interfaces between physical equipment and digital workflows.
Develop control and orchestration software for laboratory automation, intelligent instrumentation, robotic workcells, and autonomous experimentation.
Work with technology partners, system integrators, and equipment vendors to define, deliver, and scale automation pilots while helping establish the architectures, interfaces, and engineering capabilities that Insud should own internally.
Develop robotics capabilities including manipulation, sensing, localization, navigation, motion planning, and control.
Use ROS 2 and relevant laboratory, industrial, and software engineering frameworks to build maintainable and operationally robust systems.
Develop and lead prototypes and pilot deployments, evaluating technical feasibility, robustness, usability, and business value.
Explore longer-term opportunities in advanced robotics, autonomous systems, physical AI, and autonomous experimentation, translating promising advances into future capabilities and practical applications.
Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap and help build a specialized automation and robotics capability within AI Labs.

What do you need?

We are looking for engineers with hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas:
Laboratory automation · Scientific instrumentation · Robotics · Mechatronics · Autonomous systems · Industrial automation · Phys