Backend Engineer – Workflow Execution and Orchestration, Kitchener, ON

Job summary

Design and implement scalable workflow services for task coordination, job execution, and state tracking within the Physical AI platform. Collaborate with architects and robotics engineers to integrate orchestration services with APIs and downstream systems.

Job details

Change the future with us. We are looking for dedicated and talented people who solve ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world. About the role: Backend Engineer for Workflow Execution and Orchestration Are you passionate about building systems that coordinate complex tasks across services, users, and machines? Do you enjoy workflow engines, asynchronous processing, distributed state, and orchestration patterns that turn platform capabilities into executable operations? We are seeking a Backend Engineer – Workflow Execution & Orchestration to help build the orchestration backbone of the Canada Physical AI platform. Initially, this role will focus on data-processing workflows, annotation/review workflows, pipeline coordination, and event-driven platform execution. Over time, it is expected to contribute to broader support for robot task workflow execution and machine-level orchestration concepts. This is a strong fit for someone who likes complex backend systems and wants to work on the path from platform workflows toward real-world Physical AI execution environments. What will you do? * Design and implement workflow services for task coordination, job execution, review flows, retries, state tracking, and dependency management. * Build backend logic for data-processing workflows, annotation pipelines, validation jobs, and platform operations. * Create scalable orchestration patterns using queues, event streams, schedulers, workflow engines, or stateful service logic. * Collaborate with platform architects and robotics integration engineers to define how orchestration services interact with connectors, APIs, and downstream systems. * Help evolve the workflow layer toward future robot task workflow execution and machine-level orchestration scenarios. * Implement observability, logging, metrics, and operational controls for workflow systems. * Support error handling, reproducibility, and execution transparency for complex asynchronous systems. * Contribute to engineering quality through testing, code reviews, design discussions, and maintainable implementation patterns. What you will bring: * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. * Strong backend engineering experience with workflow-oriented or distributed systems. * Experience with queues, background job systems, event-driven architectures, stateful backend logic, or workflow engines. * Good understanding of microservices, asynchronous processing, resiliency patterns, and platform observability. * Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar backend languages. * Curiosity for industrial systems, robotics-adjacent applications, or orchestrated execution domains. What sets you apart: * Experience with workflow engines such as Temporal, Airflow, Argo, Cadence, or comparable tools. * Familiarity with robotics task coordination, industrial execution logic, or machine/cell-level workflow patterns. * Experience designing operator-visible execution systems with traceability and operational control. * Exposure to physical system integrations, event telemetry, or hybrid cloud-edge execution. Why Join Us? * Impact: Build the founding team and platform capability for a strategic Physical AI initiative in Canada. * Innovation: Work at the intersection of robotics, AI, industrial software, workflow orchestration, and platform engineering. * Leadership: Shape the direction, culture, and operating model of a new strategic engineering organization. * Collaboration: Partner with leading global research, product, and engineering teams. * Growth: Help define how Physical AI platform capabilities scale from data foundations to runtime-enabled industrial applications. Salary: Salary is commensurate with experience, and base salary ranges between $100,000 CAD - $130,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus of 10 % of base salary, based on Company performance metrics. Why you’ll love working for Siemens! * Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces. * Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects. * Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment. * Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale. * Competitive total rewards package. * Profit sharing available. * Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle. * Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community. * Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events. * Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them! * Employee perks and discounts. * Diversity and inclusivity focused. Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025. About us. We share our ideas and champion the people behind them. Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada. To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted. Siemens is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, Siemens Canada will provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities to support participation of candidates in all aspects of the recruitment process. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. By submitting personal information to Siemens Canada Limited or its affiliates, service providers and agents, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of such information for the purposes described in our Privacy Notice available at www.siemens.ca. Siemens s’engage à créer un environnement diversifié et est fière d’être un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Sur demande, Siemens Canada prendra des mesures d’accommodement raisonnables pour les personnes handicapées, dans le but de soutenir la participation des candidats dans tous les aspects du processus de recrutement. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour ce poste. En transmettant des renseignements personnels à Siemens Canada limitée ou à ses sociétés affiliées, à ses fournisseurs de services ou à ses agents, vous nous autorisez à recueillir, à utiliser et à divulguer ces renseignements aux fins prévues dans notre Déclaration de protection de la confidentialité, que vous pouvez consulter au www.siemens.ca. Job ID 528742 Posted since 06-Nov-2026 Organization Digital Industries Field of work Research & Development Company Siemens Canada Limited Experience level Experienced Professional Job type Full-time Work mode Hybrid (Remote/Office) Employment type Permanent Location(s) * Kitchener - Ontario - Canada

What you’ll do

Design and implement scalable workflow services for task coordination, job execution, and state tracking within the Physical AI platform. Collaborate with architects and robotics engineers to integrate orchestration services with APIs and downstream systems.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering with strong experience in distributed systems and backend development. Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java and familiarity with workflow engines like Temporal or Airflow is essential.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Flexible work environment
• Flex hours
• Telecommuting
• Digital workspaces
• Mentorship programs
• Competitive total rewards package
• Profit sharing
• Vacation entitlement
• Employee perks and discounts

Listed skills

• Python · Preferred
• Go · Preferred
• Java · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Backend engineering
• Workflow orchestration
• Python
• Go
• Java
• Distributed systems
• Microservices
• Asynchronous processing
• Event-driven architecture
• Temporal
• Airflow
• Argo
• Cadence
• Observability
• Robotics integration
• Stateful service logic
• Mentorship
• Operations
• Java (Programming Language)
• Coordinating
• Workflow Management
• Curiosity
• Leadership
• Innovation
• Apache Airflow
• Resilience
• Research
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Data Processing
• Python (Programming Language)
• Software Engineering
• Creativity
• Scalability
• Computer Science
• Business Metrics
• Performance Metric
• Robotics
• Go (Programming Language)
• Exception Handling
• Code Review
• Health Technology
• Product Family Engineering
• Discounts And Allowances
• Telemetry
• Apache Flex
• Telecommuting
• Event-Driven Programming
• Dependency Management
• Traceability
• Hybrid Cloud Computing

Job areas

• Software
• Engineering
• Technology
• Science & Research
• Energy
• Back End Engineer
• Back End Developer / Engineer
• Web and Multimedia Developers
• Web Developers

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