Business Development Engineer - Automation (m/f/d)

Your tasks include:

• Validate customer-specific automation applications based on CAD data and application requirements to assess technical feasibility and support sales discussions.
• Program, optimize, and validate robot applications to achieve reliable, production-ready performance.
• Prepare and support automation solutions from technical concept through system ramp-up and production start at customer sites.
• Coordinate and support customer-site commissioning, troubleshooting, and process optimization to ensure successful project execution.
• Work closely with customers, Sales, Engineering, and external technology partners to translate application requirements into robust automation solutions.
• Identify and implement opportunities to standardize successful automation use cases, processes, and solutions to accelerate deployment and scaling across customers.
• Capture project learnings and continuously improve automation processes, solutions, and implementation approaches.
• Contribute to the evaluation and integration of relevant automation and robotics technologies for the further development of tesa's TaaS offering.
• Build strong relationships with customers and project stakeholders and act as a technical point of contact throughout the implementation phase.
• Travel regularly to customer sites, partner facilities, and internal locations as required.

What you will need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, automation engineering, robotics, or a comparable technical field, or a certified technician qualification with relevant practical experience.
• Several years of professional experience in industrial automation, robotics, robot programming, application engineering, or a related technical environment.
• Practical experience in programming, commissioning, troubleshooting, and optimizing robotic or automated systems.
• Ability to interpret CAD data and translate customer-specific requirements into technically feasible automation solutions.
• Experience in taking technical solutions from development through implementation and production ramp-up.
• Strong problem-solving and project coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external stakeholders.
• A customer-oriented mindset combined with a hands-on and pragmatic "get things done" mentality.
• Strong communication and presentation skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to different stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites and project locations.
• Fluent in English; German language skills are a plus.