About Rockwell Automation Robotics Center of Excellence
The Robotics Center of Excellence (RCoE) is the "innovation engine" of Rockwell Automation robotics. We are a dynamic, high-impact research group dedicated to applying the latest research to transform real-world industrial operations at scale. Our mission is to move beyond rigid, pre-programmed automation and usher in the new era of Autonomous Operations. Here, you'll work alongside world-class experts in a culture that prizes rapid prototyping, intellectual curiosity, and the drive to see "impossible" ideas working on the factory floor.
About the Job
We are looking for a passionate UX Coop who is eager to shape how humans and robots interact at the frontier of autonomous operations. In this role, you will join a UX team embedded inside a highly technical robotics research group, contributing across user experience research, interaction prototyping, and the design of new ways for people to work with intelligent machines.
This isn't a "make the screens pretty" role. We're thinking about how humans, robots, and machines talk to each other through interfaces, through behaviour, through whatever modality turns out to make sense. Some of what we do looks like traditional UX. A lot of it doesn't yet have a name.
About You
You are a "designer-researcher", someone who is just as comfortable framing a research question on a whiteboard as you are vibe coding a prototype to test it. You are:
Your Responsibilities:
UX Research: Frame the question, design the study, talk to operators and stakeholders, synthesize what you find, and bring it back as something the team can act on.
Interaction Prototyping: Explore and prototype new modes of interaction with robotic systems; voice, gesture, ambient signals, chat-based agent control, spatial, whatever the problem calls for. Vibe code your way to something interactive, get it in front of people, and learn from it.
Design Critique & Collaboration: Bring your work to the team early and often. Defend your decisions, absorb feedback from designers, researchers, and engineers, and help raise the bar through peer review.
The Essentials - You Will Have:
Actively pursuing a bachelors or advanced degree from an accredited college or university.
Legal authorization to work in Canada is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future for this job opening.
The Preferred - You Might Also Have:
UX Research: Comfort designing and running research; framing questions, talking to users, synthesizing what you learn, and defending what it tells you.
Problem Solving: A track record of working through complex, unstructured problems where the answer isn't obvious.
Bonus points if you have:
What We Offer:
Health Insurance including Medical and Dental
Health Care Spending Account (HCSA – dependent on the plan chosen)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Retirement plans
Paid Time off
Volunteering Time off
Employer Savings Plan Matching (includes RRSP, TFSA, and EPSP)
Employer Paid DC Pension
Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up
Fitness Reimbursement Program
Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.
For this role, the Hourly Compensation is from $20 - $32/hour. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education, and experience.
This posting is for a newly created position within our organization.
At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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