Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

Design, build, test, and deploy autonomy components for large off-road machines across perception, planning, control, and learning. Own robotics components from prototype through production on real hardware, contribute across the autonomy stack, and collaborate in outcome-focused teams. The role involves software certification, simulation, on-vehicle deployment, and field robotics in customer environments.

Lead robotics engineering efforts across perception, planning, control, and learning for autonomous off-road machines. Design, test, certify, and deploy production-quality autonomy components on real hardware, taking systems from prototype through production. Collaborate across the full robotics stack while specializing in AI, motion planning, perception, controls, or SLAM. Work includes simulation, vehicle deployment, field robotics, and potentially MLOps and training infrastructure.

Build and own physics-grade robotics simulation infrastructure for manipulation, perception, SLAM, and navigation validation. Model robot dynamics, kinematics, actuation, and sensors; develop scene-authoring and CAD import tools; integrate simulation into CI; support AI data generation; and lead virtual commissioning and digital twin capabilities. The role also evaluates simulation-to-hardware divergence, supports infrastructure users, and balances simulation fidelity with performance.

Design, program, implement, test, troubleshoot, and maintain PLC- and robotics-based automation systems in a manufacturing facility. Support capital projects, installations, modernization, root cause investigations, continuous improvement, technical documentation, and front-line maintenance. The role includes vendor collaboration, periodic on-call coverage, and work in a 24/7 plant environment.

Designs, implements, tests, maintains, and improves automated manufacturing processes and robotic equipment. Develops production layouts, tooling, electromechanical systems, and process documentation while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Supports engineering changes, equipment upgrades, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. The role may involve programming robotic and programmable logic controllers, automated paint booths, robotic inspection systems, and related software.

Designs, documents, troubleshoots, and improves automated manufacturing equipment and electrical control systems. Responsibilities include working with PLCs, motors, servo drives, and variable frequency drives; developing automation designs and construction packages; using CAD tools; and collaborating with engineering, quality, safety, and IT teams.

Design and implement mission autonomy systems for real-world robots, including perception-aware planning, VLM-based long-horizon reasoning, task replanning, failure recovery, and multi-robot coordination. Develop reliable autonomy software using Python, C++, ROS, and related tools, while supporting testing, safety, performance, and deployment on real robotic hardware.

The Principal Robotics Engineer will design, develop, test, and deploy autonomy components across perception, planning, control, and learning for large off-road machines. The role owns robotics components from prototype through production on real hardware, contributes across the autonomy stack, and participates in software testing, analysis, witnessing, and certification. Responsibilities include field deployment, simulation, on-vehicle development, and collaboration within outcome-focused engineering teams.

Designs, documents, troubleshoots, and improves automated manufacturing equipment and electrical control systems for high-rate production. Responsibilities include working with PLCs, motors, servo drives, and variable frequency drives; developing electrical automation construction packages; creating CAD documentation; and collaborating with mechanical, quality, safety, and IT teams. The role supports missile, launch system, and ground vehicle manufacturing and requires U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Designs, documents, troubleshoots, and improves automated manufacturing equipment and electrical control systems. Responsibilities include working with PLCs, motors, servo drives, VFDs, robots, conveyors, and vision systems; creating CAD-based construction packages; supporting fabrication, assembly, startup, maintenance, and upgrades; and collaborating across engineering, quality, safety, and IT teams to meet production goals.

Designs, tests, fabricates, implements, maintains, and upgrades automated manufacturing processes and equipment. Works with robots, conveyors, vision systems, programmable controllers, and electromechanical systems to improve quality and efficiency. Provides engineering guidance on automation concepts and specifications, supports continuous improvement, and ensures regulatory compliance. Requires a technical bachelor’s degree, manufacturing experience, robotics knowledge, and the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Designs, documents, troubleshoots, and improves automated manufacturing equipment and electrical controls, including PLCs, motors, servo drives, and variable frequency drives. Creates CAD-based construction packages for fabrication, assembly, checkout, and startup. Collaborates with mechanical engineering, quality, safety, and IT teams to deliver safe, efficient manufacturing solutions for missile, launch system, and ground vehicle production.

Design, build, test, certify, and deploy autonomy components across perception, planning, control, and learning for large off-road machines. Own robotics components from prototype through production hardware, contribute across the autonomy stack, and support simulation, on-vehicle deployment, and real-world field operations.

Build and deploy perception systems for autonomous agricultural equipment. Responsibilities include integrating and calibrating cameras, LiDAR, radar, GNSS, and IMU sensors; developing obstacle detection, tracking, sensor-fusion, and computer-vision pipelines; deploying models on edge hardware; creating data evaluation workflows; and troubleshooting field issues. The role requires production-quality code, real-time optimization, on-vehicle validation, and occasional customer-site travel.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for robotic inspection systems, owning systems engineering, architecture, integration, verification, troubleshooting, and production transition. Leads multidisciplinary teams across mechanical, electrical, controls, embedded computing, sensing, and software; manages requirements, interfaces, trade studies, testing, manufacturing readiness, field demonstrations, and technical risk. Mentors engineers and supports proposals, customer engagements, intellectual property, and technology roadmaps.

Design and implement robotic automation and controls systems for aerospace manufacturing, including welding, fabrication, material handling, and inspection applications. Support production robots through simulation, offline programming, and deployment. Architect factory automation solutions that improve speed, quality, reliability, and efficiency. Develop industrial safety systems, assess technical risks, create electrical and pneumatics schematics, and collaborate with mechanical, manufacturing, and design engineers.

Designs, programs, implements, tests, and troubleshoots PLC-controlled and robotic manufacturing systems. Supports capital projects, equipment installations, modernization, maintenance, root-cause investigations, and continuous process improvements. Provides frontline technical support in a 24/7 manufacturing environment, collaborates with vendors and maintenance teams, updates engineering documentation, and participates in safety initiatives. Periodic on-call, weekend, holiday, and extended-hours coverage is required.

Own end-to-end customer deployments of a Physical AI robotics platform. Translate scientific workflows into technical requirements, integrate robots, instruments, and software, and build, test, debug, and deploy production workflows. Work directly with customers and forward-deployed scientists during site bring-up and validation, diagnose cross-system failures, extend integrations, and generalize deployment learnings into reusable platform capabilities. The role is fully in-person in San Francisco and requires approximately 30% travel.

Designs, integrates, tests, troubleshoots, and improves robotic workcells for automated discovery laboratory workflows. Responsibilities include robot and equipment integration, controls and safety interfaces, physical layout, reliability improvements, simulation, FAT/SAT execution, technical documentation, root cause analysis, vendor coordination, and compliance with EHS, biosafety, and regulated-environment expectations.

Lead the architecture and hands-on development of manipulation systems for physical insectoid robots. Design contact-rich behaviors, planning, learned-policy integration, force control, monitoring, recovery, and real-time execution in C++ and Python. Establish experiments, metrics, regression tests, and failure-analysis processes that improve repeated physical-task performance. Mentor engineers, lead cross-stack reviews, and make technical decisions across sensing, control, actuation, interfaces, and mechanical constraints.

Build software and robotics for a highly automated biology lab. Responsibilities include integrating laboratory instruments and robotic systems, developing experiment orchestration and scheduling, enabling monitoring and error recovery, capturing complete experimental data, optimizing workflows for throughput and reproducibility, and transferring automated assays across partner laboratories. The role bridges software engineering, robotics, hardware integration, and biology while requiring hands-on troubleshooting and close collaboration with scientists and laboratory operators.

Design, prototype, test, and iterate in-house four-wheeled and quadruped robotic platforms. Lead mechanical, electrical, and embedded hardware development from rapid prototypes to manufacturable, deployable products, incorporating customer feedback and overseeing reliability and production readiness.

Develop production robotics perception software for manufacturing environments. Responsibilities include 3D geometry reconstruction, segmentation, inspection, active perception, viewpoint planning, multi-sensor fusion, GPU acceleration, hardware-software integration, debugging, and deployment support. The role works directly with physical robots and sensors, assists application teams with proofs of concept and deployments, and travels to customer sites for system-level troubleshooting.

Leads the physical automation architecture and engineering strategy for scalable, self-driving discovery laboratories. Defines robotics, controls, safety, sensors, facility integration, simulation, reliability, maintainability, vendor governance, technical standards, and lifecycle support. Partners with scientists, AI, IT/OT, facilities, quality, procurement, and operations teams to integrate automated workcells and scientific workflows. Provides technical governance, challenges vendor designs, supports technology evaluations, mentors engineers, and drives cross-site standardization and industrialization.

Design and develop robotics behaviors and features for intelligent products. Implement, test, and extend robotics software components in C++ and Python; explore proof-of-concept concepts; research robot learning methods; benchmark system performance; work with physical robots; and collaborate across robotics, software, hardware, and machine learning teams.