VP Robotics Engineering

Company Description IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service.

Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #Make Your Moment  so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.About the CTO Office The CTO Office is an independent unit within Product & Customer with a dual mandate: track what is genuinely happening at the frontier of the industry, and convert it into technology strategy and working software inside IFS. It operates close to the executive team, frontier AI labs, robotics OEMs, and strategic partners.

Job Description The role

You will define and build the robotics integration architecture for the IFS suite and grow the engineering team that delivers it. This is a software role. You will not design actuators, motion control, or perception stacks, and hardware experience is not required. What is required is deep, current working knowledge of the software surfaces of the major robot OEM platforms: their SDKs, APIs, fleet managers, autonomy stacks, data models, and their real limitations.

You will also be the engineering counterpart to our robotics ecosystem: OEMs, robotics foundation model companies, startup networks, and standards bodies. When an OEM partner puts their platform engineers in a room, you are the person on our side of the table. It is a player-coach role in a unit that ships. You will build the first integrations yourself, prove them with real customers and live demos, then scale the capability through the team you hire.

What you will do Own the agent-first integration architecture between the IFS suite and robotics OEM platforms, from reference design to production Build the abstraction layer that lets IFS agents and applications treat heterogeneous robot fleets as dispatchable, auditable executors of work Deliver working integrations hands-on: work order dispatch to robots, mission and task orchestration, telemetry and inspection data flowing into asset and service records Evaluate OEM platforms on engineering merit and steer where IFS invests integration effort;

kill weak options early Represent IFS in technical engagements with robot OEMs, robotics foundation model providers, and interoperability bodies Hire and lead a robotics integration engineering team and set its technical bar Ship demonstrable outcomes on real customer scenarios and flagship events, on hard dates Brief executives and customers on the robotics roadmap in commercial terms Qualifications What we are looking for 15+ years…