Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people's lives and redefining what's possible. We create for our general customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3 D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Derived from the Latin word "celer" for quick and swift, the name Celera reflects our commitment to delivering motion control solutions that accelerate our customers' ability to deliver innovative solutions to their markets.

Celera

Motion's cohesive vision, superior technologies, consultative team approach and best-in-class reliability make us the trusted partner in solving the most challenging motion control problems.

Celera

Motion's precision component and subsystem solutions solve application-specific challenges for technology-driven original equipment manufacturers from a range of markets. We are looking for a talented, and highly motivated engineer who will be responsible for bringing new products to market reality whilst ensuring high levels of quality to current products. Come join a team of deeply knowledgeable engineers that strive to build the most robust and reliable motion control systems using cutting-edge development tools and practices.

The selected engineer will be focused on developing and maintaining the multi-platform Motion control libraries delivered together with our products. These libraries simplify the commissioning of the system by providing high level abstraction layers and advanced diagnostic functions (i.e.

Primary Responsibilities Develop and maintain a set of Communication libraries Develop and maintain a set of Motion Control libraries,



including advanced identification algorithms and tuning tools Develop and maintain Graphical User Interfaces to simplify the commissioning of the servo-drivers Make performance and optimization trade-offs to meet product requirements Write internal documentation for Novanta Motion software platforms (architecture, detailed design, etc.). Work closely with the Firmware team to improve Novanta Motion products and software solutions. Define, together with the Quality Assurance team, test plans for Novanta Motion software products.

Experience and Education BSc, MSc or Ph D in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline Minimum experience: Strong proficiency in Python. Motion control knowledge (motor types, feedback sensors, controls, etc.).

Experience in source code control for software development (i.e.

Experience with software testing methodologies and automated testing practices. Knowledge of Agile development methodologies.

Personal

Interest in the Robotics / Motion Control field. Fluent written and spoken Spanish and English. Nice to have requirements Capacity to analyze a problem from multiple perspectives and explore creative solutions Self-motivated with strong drive to achieve business objectives Positive, proactive, and energetic attitude High attention to detail with a desire for excellence Industrial communication protocols (Ether CAT, Ether Net/IP, Profinet, CANOpen)Experience developing desktop applications using Qt, Py Qt, Py Side, or similar technologies.

Experience developing cross-platform software applications for Windows and Linux environments. Previous experience in motion control, robotics, lab or medical automation markets will be highly appreciated. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

Barcelona, Spain Type: Full time

📌 Engineer - Software Engineering (Barcelona)
🏢 Novanta
📍 Barcelona