Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

Architect and develop high-performance Linux user-space daemons and middleware services for aerial and ground robots. Build robotics applications in C/C++, Rust, and Python; implement inter-process communication, device lifecycle features, sensor and actuator integration, ROS2 use cases, autonomous behaviors, and video pipelines. Design comprehensive unit and integration testing, CI pipelines, and technical documentation. Collaborate across controls, vision, hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams while mentoring engineers and supporting products through launch and post-release.

Designs and releases high-density multilayer PCBs for robotic systems, including placement, routing, signal and power integrity, EMI/EMC, thermal, and mechanical integration. Collaborates with engineering, fabrication, and assembly partners on stack-ups, DFM/DFA/DFT, documentation, manufacturing inspections, and failure analysis. Maintains component libraries and develops reusable layout constraints and workflows.

Designs and develops mechanical systems for a novel medical robotic platform from concept through product launch. Responsibilities include collaborating with manufacturing and clinical teams, building and bringing up robotic prototypes, supporting preclinical lab use, identifying technical risks, documenting manufacturability and reliability findings, and contributing to design reviews, verification, regulatory processes, and product development milestones.

Develop real-time perception and sensor-fusion software for autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles. Responsibilities include processing lidar, camera, IMU, and GPS data; implementing computer vision, state estimation, calibration, tracking, and optimization algorithms; validating systems in simulation and field deployments; supporting ruggedized sensor hardware; and collaborating across ML, firmware, embedded, and systems engineering teams.

Design methods and tools for robotic systems, adapt machine learning to robotics, and work with simulation platforms while contributing to experiments and publications.

Design and develop AI software for autonomous robotics, focusing on computer vision and VLA models, while collaborating across functions.

Design, implement, optimize, and verify real-time robot controls software for an AI-driven surgical robotics platform. Responsibilities include deterministic data transfer, latency and jitter reduction, DDS and network QoS optimization, performance profiling, hardware and virtual testing, observability, integration, code reviews, and collaboration with controls, electrical, mechanical, and product teams.

Lead development and maintenance of software powering autonomous robotic strawberry harvesting. Build across SCADA communications, perception, motion planning, and robotic controls; translate requirements into production-ready software; validate through simulation and field testing; troubleshoot deployments; and collaborate with robotics, hardware, controls, and operations teams to improve system reliability.

Design and implement perception systems for automated heavy machinery: integrate and calibrate advanced sensors, build real-time image/point-cloud processing and fusion pipelines, develop object-detection and ML models, support simulation/visualization, and lead sensor integration, testing, and cross-functional teams to enable collision avoidance, localization, and motion planning.

Design and implement firmware and low-level embedded software for robotics. Perform platform bringup, driver development, sensor integration, calibration, and testing. Lead interdisciplinary teams, mentor hires, and help shape testing frameworks, toolchains, and CI/CD practices for production and prototype systems.

Lead design, implementation, installation, and support of robotic automation cells. Provide mechanical/electrical design input, program and troubleshoot Fanuc and UR robots, manage small projects and integrators, train plant personnel, develop KPIs, and create contingency and recovery plans. Travel across North America up to 50%.

Design, execute, and document test plans for autonomous driving subsystems. Develop automation and test scripts in Python/C++, use ROS1/ROS2 and rosbag tooling, interface with vehicle CAN, calibrate and verify sensors, perform track and public-road testing, analyze logs, and maintain audit-ready test documentation and test infrastructure.

The role involves developing and maintaining robotic control stacks, managing sim-to-real pipelines, and collaborating with researchers on robotic learning projects.

Own the end-to-end loop from simulation to physical robots: integrate and maintain physics simulators, build and operate teleoperation rigs, bring up and maintain robot platforms, and ensure reliable drivers, calibration pipelines, data recording, and deployment workflows for reproducible experiments.

Develop and maintain software ecosystem for robots, implement system services applications, and bridge software layers for effective feature development.

Lead design, build, and production bring-up of robotic systems for manufacturing. Own controls, motion, and robotics logic; integrate vision/ML, PLCs, and factory control systems; support lamination, material handling, and automated trimming alongside mechanical engineers.

Designs, programs, commissions, troubleshoots, and maintains industrial robotic systems and automated manufacturing equipment. Leads automation projects, develops preventative/predictive maintenance and process controls, integrates PLC/HMI/vision systems, and supports continuous improvement to boost safety, quality, and productivity.

Deploy, develop and implement AI-powered robotics systems on farms, collaborating with farmers and sales teams to solve real-world problems.

Lead motion planning and trajectory optimization for a high-DOF manipulator, turning planned paths into time-optimal, dynamically feasible, safe trajectories. Own path planning architecture, integrate perception, validate performance in simulation and hardware, define metrics, benchmark approaches, and mentor engineers to improve cycle time and reliability.

Develop automated test frameworks and hardware-in-the-loop validation environments for robotic hardware, firmware, and software. Reproduce multidisciplinary failures, maintain requirements-to-results traceability, generate reliability and performance data, and support root-cause analysis and product readiness decisions.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop and support software for robotic manipulation, focusing on motion planning, kinematics, and integration with robotic systems, while providing mentorship to junior engineers.

The Senior Robotics Engineer will lead the development of core C++ software for mobile robotic systems, mentor engineers, and guide technical innovation across teams.

Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for industrial humanoid robots. Integrate manipulation, locomotion, and perception capabilities; develop safe, reactive plan execution using classical control and learned policies; build data curation, synthetic data generation, behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression-testing pipelines. The role supports simulation and deployment at live industrial sites and requires expertise in robotics autonomy, world models, NVIDIA Cosmos, and Isaac Sim.

Develop motion-planning and control algorithms for outdoor construction robots, deploy them on hardware, benchmark and tune them for robust real-world operation, and integrate them with perception and learning components. Interns own scoped projects, work with mentors, and demonstrate results. Projects may include safe-stop and human-avoidance behaviors or manipulation from moving platforms on rough terrain.

Lead the Cell Platform team owning the software/hardware layer between firmware and application on robot cells. Responsible for product roadmap, releases, hands-on development, hiring, and cross-team partnerships. Deliver embedded Linux/BSP bring-up, sensor integration, real-time determinism, middleware (ROS2/DDS) and data transport design, containerized images, CI/CD release engineering, and fleet-scale OTA/provisioning and observability for production robot fleets.