Job Description

Job Description

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. We're on a mission to redefine AI-driven robotic vision. 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 where customers build, validate, and de-risk robotic cells before any hardware is bought), and VuePod, our new turnkey, productized bin-picking cell.

About the Role

We're looking for an Intermediate Mechatronics Engineer to join our Robotics & Grasping team, the team that turns Apera's vision into products that pick and place on the factory floor and that makes automation simple and a joy to implement. This is a hands-on, hardware-first role at a company in the middle of its transition from software-only to software plus hardware.

You'll have a robust mechanical and electrical foundation, and you'll be comfortable writing Python to run quick tests and reading and contributing to C++. You'll work alongside senior mechatronics engineers and professional engineers (P.
Eng.), and with our vision, software and product teams, using the latest machine vision technology to design and build complete industrial vision guided robotic cells,



from the first concept sketch to production. You'll also own a piece of hardware that matters.

Our VuePort cameras are the eyes of every Apera system: we build them from off-the-shelf 2D machine vision cameras, assemble them in-house and calibrate them to deliver high-fidelity, high-accuracy 3D perception. You'll maintain and improve the calibration methods and the calibration system behind them, and keep pushing them to continue being the most accurate 3D system in the industry. What You'll Actually Do Own VuePort calibration.

Maintain and improve the calibration methods and calibration system for our VuePort cameras and the fixtures, targets and tooling that support them. Stay at the frontier of calibration. Research, prototype and benchmark new calibration methods and metrology techniques, and bring the ones that work into production so Apera continues shipping the most accurate, highest-fidelity 3D system available. Design and build the next generation of VuePorts.

Drive the physical design, iteration and manufacturing of future VuePort cameras, enclosures, optics and camera mounting, thermal and sealing considerations, assembly fixtures and the production process that keeps every unit calibrated and consistent. Build and maintain robot drivers. Together with the team, write and maintain the drivers that connect Apera software to ABB, Fanuc, Yaskawa, Universal Robots and other robot brands, in C++ and Python.



Optimize robot motion.

Tune motion profiles, cycle time and vision-to-motion timing so cells run efficiently, accurately and reliably. Design full industrial cells. Do mechanical and electrical design
- end-of-arm tooling, mounts, fixtures, camera enclosures, cell layouts, cell safety, wiring and panel design with our seasoned mechatronics engineers. Run quick, structured tests. Script experiments in Python, measure accuracy, repeatability and cycle time in our Vancouver Research and Development lab, and turn results into design decisions.

Take products from concept to production. Contribute across the whole lineup of physical automation products: prototyping, design-for-assembly, documentation, supplier coordination and production handoff. Support deployments. Diagnose field issues, run root-cause analysis and close the loop with the vision and software teams, gathering input and making suggestions that push for system-wide fixes rather than hot patches. Why This Is a Career Move (Not Just a Job) At Apera, we give robots vision.

Now we're building the hardware around it — the cells, tooling and cameras that turn that vision into working automation. You'll join at the inflection point. Apera is moving from a software product with a little mechanical work to a company that designs and ships serious hardware. The decisions you make now will shape our whole physical automation lineup. You'll own the eyes of the system. VuePort calibration is yours to improve. Every accuracy gain you find shows up in every robot we deploy. You'll learn from the best.

Senior mechatronics engineers and P.
Engs on the team, and applied vision scientists and software engineers. You'll work with real indu

📌 Mechatronics Engineer (Vancouver)
🏢 Apera AI
📍 Vancouver