Jobs at Novanta

Accounting Trainee interns support accounts payable operations by processing and validating invoices, checking vendor and purchase order data, tracking exceptions, supporting month-end accrual activities, documenting procedures, and communicating with procurement. The role also involves audit and compliance support, identifying workflow improvements, maintaining error logs, and escalating discrepancies. Candidates must be current Accounting or Finance students with advanced Excel skills, strong analytical ability, attention to detail, communication skills, and legal eligibility to work in Czechia.

Serve as the technical bridge between customers, Sales, and Engineering by developing motion-control solutions. Responsibilities include understanding application requirements, conducting demonstrations, building prototypes, testing and qualifying solutions, integrating complementary technologies, supporting feasibility and costing, and communicating customer needs across internal teams. The role is customer-facing, commercially oriented, and requires approximately 50% domestic travel.

Supports demand and supply planning by preparing recurring reports, analyzing shortages, maintaining forecast data, tracking KPIs, administering the orders application, updating customer commitment dates, and performing ad hoc analysis. The role requires advanced Excel skills, strong analytical judgment, accuracy, communication, and task prioritization. Planning, ERP/MRP, reporting, manufacturing, and supply chain experience are preferred.

Supports development of new RFID systems, tests existing systems and prototypes, validates hardware and software improvements, and prepares technical documentation and reports. The internship also develops skills in telecommunications networks, communication protocols, networked applications, and analytical tools for optimizing telematic services. Candidates should demonstrate technical ability, initiative, adaptability, communication skills, organization, responsibility, motivation, and teamwork.

Lead cross-functional teams delivering complex technical OEM product development projects involving embedded vision, Edge AI, RFID, and spectroradiometer technologies. Define project scope, requirements, schedules, budgets, risks, and mitigation plans; ensure appropriate staffing, regulatory compliance, stakeholder communication, and on-time delivery. Manage project controls, financial performance, and reporting for products used in medical devices, robotics, and scientific instruments.

Develop and maintain multi-platform motion control and communication libraries and GUIs for servo drivers. Implement advanced identification and tuning algorithms, optimize performance, produce internal architecture and design documentation, define test plans with QA, and collaborate closely with firmware teams to deliver robust motion control products.

Serves as a customer-facing technical liaison supporting sales of embedded RFID, machine vision, scanning, display, and touchscreen solutions. Responsibilities include technical advising, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, system integration, cost estimation, documentation, customer relationship management, and representing customer needs internally. Requires collaboration with sales and product teams, frequent travel, and technical knowledge of engineering processes, coding, automation, and machine vision applications.

Own reliability engineering and product performance across the product lifecycle. Design qualification strategies, accelerated life tests, Weibull and life-data analyses, failure investigations, reliability dashboards, and predictive analytics. Support new product introduction, manufacturing transfers, FMEA, risk management, and corrective actions while partnering with Engineering, R&D, Manufacturing, and Quality teams to improve product reliability and customer satisfaction.

The Senior HR Generalist partners with managers and HR teams to deliver employee lifecycle programs, employee relations support, performance management, investigations, compliance, HRIS administration, workforce planning, onboarding, offboarding, engagement initiatives, and organizational change activities. The role also supports HR process improvement, M&A integration, local labor law compliance, and people analytics while coaching managers and ensuring consistent application of global HR programs.

Drive revenue and strategic customer growth across Germany and selected EMEA markets. Develop territory plans, identify OEM opportunities, manage complex technical sales and design-in cycles, negotiate agreements, collaborate with engineering and commercial teams, and maintain forecasts in Salesforce. The role advises customers on motion control, robotics, automation, and related technologies across medical robotics, semiconductor, metrology, satellite communications, and advanced manufacturing.

Coordinate cross-functional R&D projects from concept through product launch. Responsibilities include creating project plans, managing schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, meetings, stakeholder communication, leadership reporting, customer and supplier coordination, and alignment with quality and product-development processes. The role supports new robotics and automation product introduction in a collaborative engineering environment.

A 24-month graduate programme developing electronics engineering skills through electronic assembly, testing, fault finding, process improvement, quality initiatives, new product introduction, validation, and manufacturing projects. Participants receive mentoring, learn Lean Manufacturing methodologies, gain exposure to advanced CO₂ laser technology, travel internationally for specialist training, and present their work to senior leaders.

Supports month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities through journal entries, inventory reconciliations, excess and obsolete inventory analysis, manufacturing work order closure, cost variance analysis, and audit support. The role also facilitates cross-functional reviews and improves cost accounting processes and internal controls while collaborating with operations, supply chain, and finance teams.

Leads customer-facing engineering engagements for robotics and automation technologies. Partners with Sales to understand requirements, develops optimized technical solutions, translates needs into engineering specifications, supports prototyping and validation, mentors junior engineers, communicates value propositions, and collaborates cross-functionally on product development and application performance.

Leads the design and production release of inductive position sensors, encoders, and electric motors. Performs electromagnetic FEA, prototype validation, bench characterization, and simulation-to-test correlation. Develops technology roadmaps, evaluates emerging technologies, ensures regulatory compliance, and coordinates cross-functional project execution. Serves as a technical subject matter expert, mentors engineers, maintains documentation, and supports strategic planning and customer requirements.

Develops and maintains embedded firmware for Novanta products, implements product features and communication protocols, and contributes to motion-control algorithms and new product development. Responsibilities include testing, debugging, hardware collaboration, board bring-up, continuous integration libraries, code optimization, and technical documentation. Requires proficiency in C, bare-metal microprocessor development, MCU peripherals, real-time constraints, schematics, laboratory instruments, and version control. Occasional domestic and international travel is expected.

Drive strategic growth across complex OEM accounts by expanding customer relationships, identifying new opportunities, developing account strategies, and translating customer needs into scalable solutions. Build executive-level relationships, influence product and business strategy, and coordinate with engineering, operations, product management, and program teams. The role requires consultative selling, account planning, pipeline development, strong business acumen, CRM usage, and travel of up to 50%.

Leads Finance functional representation within a global SAP S/4HANA transformation. Responsibilities include harmonizing Finance processes, validating GL, AP/AR, assets, controlling, costing, and period-close designs; overseeing master data readiness, migration, testing, cutover, opening balances, reconciliations, go-live, and hypercare. The role partners with Finance leadership and stakeholders to ensure reporting, controls, compliance, and statutory requirements are reflected in the solution.

Plans manufacturing and customer fulfillment, maintains inventory schedules, analyzes material availability and production requirements, and coordinates with Manufacturing, Sales, Customer Care, and Product Management. The role revises plans based on schedule changes, expedites finished goods, addresses shortages and allocation issues, supports process improvements, and contributes to SIOP planning, inventory optimization, and supply-base reduction.

Lead the AdvanCloud platform team to define cloud-native architecture, drive scalable AWS deployments, oversee CI/CD and observability, translate product vision into technical plans, coordinate Agile delivery, support AI initiatives, ensure security/compliance, and collaborate with stakeholders and partners to deliver a mission-critical SaaS RFID platform.