Joshua Joseph

Autonomous Manufacturing | Tesla AMRs | IISE Director | ASME Watchlist 2026

Austin, Texas, United States

About

The factories of the future are being built right now - inside legacy facilities, around human workflows, on manufacturing lines nobody designed for autonomy. As Tesla’s 1st AMR deployment engineer I scale the company’s in-house program across its Gigafactories, where production speeds and scale give zero margin for error. But successful forward deployments alone are not enough. The industry needs standards, frameworks and governance that can keep pace with the technology. That is the work I do beyond the factory floor. I’m a contributing author & voting member on National standards bodies (A3 R15.08, ASTM F45 and F50). My practitioner research examines how we can govern heterogeneous autonomous systems (industrial robots, mobile robots, humanoids and AI agents) operating together at scale. I speak about this work at major industry conferences including Automate, MODEX, Robotics Summit, and IROS, serve on Industrial Advisory Boards, and write here on LinkedIn. 𝘖𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩.

Experience

  • Tesla (Austin, Texas, United States)
    • Manufacturing Engineer
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      Scaling Tesla's high-volume Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) fleets across Texas & Nevada factories

    • Associate Manufacturing Engineer
      Mar 2025 - Jun 2025 · 4 mos

      Tesla's 1st AMR Deployment Engineer — pilot operations and roadmap for high-volume launch

    • Associate Process Engineer
      Jan 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Process design and line balancing for Cybertruck Chassis, Doors & Final assembly

  • Board Member at Northeastern University College of Engineering
    Jul 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Industrial Advisory Board, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

  • Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (1 yr 7 mos)
    • Director
      Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

      Logistics & Supply Chain (LSC) Division LSC Awards & Competitions Committee

    • Co-Chair
      Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

      Facilities Design & Planning (FDP) Track, IISE Annual Conference 2027

    • Regional Lead
      2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      Regional Young Professionals (RYP) Lead, South-Central US Judge, Technical Paper Competition - IISE South Central Conference 2026

  • Committee Member at ASTM International
    2026 - Present · 7 mos

    F45 Committee on Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems - WK98228 Selecting Samples of Fleets of Homogeneous A-UGVs - WK95917 Technical Requirements for Universal Wireless Charger for Mobile Robot Systems F50 Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing - Inaugural member

  • Committee Member at A3 - Association for Advancing Automation
    2026 - Present · 7 mos

    R15.08 Committee on Industrial Mobile Robots - TR R15.108 Dynamically Stable Industrial Mobile Robots