Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

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 and integrate autonomy architectures for unmanned underwater vehicles, payloads, sensors, navigation systems, and undersea effectors. Build and test prototypes using software- and hardware-in-the-loop environments, conduct maritime field testing, and support system architecture and mission analysis. Higher-level responsibilities include managing engineering projects, technical risks, budgets, schedules, security compliance, technology transitions, customer engagement, proposals, and mentoring engineers.

Develop and deploy robotics software solutions for manufacturing, including machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, simulation, and real-time applications. The role involves designing prototypes, building and testing robotic cells, streamlining robotics engineering processes, integrating systems at scale, and collaborating with manufacturing engineering teams. Travel to GM facilities in the U.S. and Mexico is required up to 25% of the time.

Design, develop, integrate, validate, and maintain software for autonomous mobile robots and fleet management systems. Responsibilities include navigation, localization, path planning, robot control, multi-robot coordination, system integration, simulation, debugging, mapping, commissioning, and customer deployments. The role supports industrial robotics solutions through onsite troubleshooting, factory integration, supplier collaboration, and domestic and international travel.

Leads robotics and automation technology projects across shipyard facilities, including feasibility studies, business cases, vendor selection, system development, programming, testing, installation, and operational support. Manages multidisciplinary teams, schedules, budgets, procurement, facilities integration, and Navy customer engagement. Provides hands-on robotic development, technical documentation, mentoring, and subject-matter expertise for manufacturing automation systems.

Entry-level robotics engineering development role focused on designing and testing electrical components for medical devices. Responsibilities include prototyping, bench testing, electrical system analysis, requirements evaluation, engineering documentation, design controls, risk management, and collaboration with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing, and Project Management teams. The 20-month onsite program includes functional rotations, technical training, leadership exposure, and mentorship.

Entry-level robotics engineering development program focused on designing and testing electrical components for medical devices. Responsibilities include prototyping, circuit testing, requirements analysis, research, engineering documentation, design controls, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration. The 20-month onsite program includes functional R&D rotations, technical training, mentorship, and leadership exposure.

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.

Develop and deploy full-stack robotics software spanning mechatronic hardware, robot control, motion planning, perception, computer vision, and machine learning. Design, test, debug, and improve safe, reliable robotic systems; develop controllers and planning algorithms for multi-robot and human-robot collaboration; manage production robotics data pipelines; and incorporate customer requirements into system design.

Design and lead development of robotics software foundations connecting sensing, planning, control, actuation, middleware, operating systems, and hardware accelerators. Build APIs, SDKs, diagnostics, testing workflows, and production-ready reference platforms for Arm-powered devices. Optimize real-time performance, reliability, safety, and resource usage while mentoring engineers and collaborating across robotics, AI, hardware, product, and customer teams.

Deploy, configure, calibrate, troubleshoot, and support robotic manipulation systems at customer sites and demonstrations. Triage fleet issues across hardware and software, analyze telemetry and logs, perform root-cause analysis, develop diagnostic tools and procedures, document field operations, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability. The role travels more than 50% and requires independent technical leadership during deployments.

Robotics Engineer Intern supporting the design, development, and testing of collaborative robotic systems. Responsibilities include ROS2 control architectures, sensor fusion, computer vision, deep learning, synthetic data generation, reinforcement and imitation learning, simulation-to-real transfer, and integration of robotics with production systems. The intern will use NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, and Omniverse while evaluating GPU-accelerated x86 and Jetson platforms and documenting proof-of-concept demonstrations.

Robotics engineering internship focused on designing, testing, and integrating collaborative robotic systems. Responsibilities include ROS2 control architectures, sensor fusion, computer vision, deep learning, synthetic data generation, reinforcement and imitation learning, simulation-to-real transfer, NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Omniverse development, GPU-accelerated computing, and physical cobot validation.

Own the technical path from customer sale through robot deployment. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, recreating customer environments, designing and assembling mechatronic solutions, testing robots in the lab, conducting timing studies, documenting deployment solutions, and handing production-ready systems to field teams.

Design and develop control systems for production robots, translating high-level motion commands into precise whole-body behavior. Implement hierarchical feedback loops, motor control software, compliant and force-sensitive controllers, and QP-based whole-body control. Develop embedded, real-time software integrated with custom hardware and communication interfaces. Build pipelines for sensing, encoder calibration, filtering, synchronization, and system characterization while ensuring robotic safety, timing, reliability, and robustness.

Build and own the robotics simulation platform, including environments, robot models, actuator and contact modeling, GPU-parallel training infrastructure, system identification, domain randomization, regression testing, and CAD-to-simulation asset pipelines. The role focuses on improving simulation fidelity, performance, reproducibility, and sim-to-real transfer for controls, planning, SLAM, and manipulation systems.

Develop and maintain real-time actuator and motor-control firmware for robotic systems from prototype through production. Design hierarchical feedback-control systems, architect reliable embedded software, validate motor controllers and sensors, and collaborate with electrical and mechanical engineers on custom hardware. Build calibration and sensing pipelines for encoders, current, voltage, filtering, synchronization, and system characterization while implementing safety mechanisms and meeting production timing and robustness requirements.

Build and deploy vertically integrated robotic systems across hardware and software. Responsibilities include integrating sensors, troubleshooting cross-stack issues, bringing new robots from first power-on through deployment, configuring customer-specific workflows, validating robots at customer sites, and creating runbooks and tooling. The role requires hands-on experience with robotic or electromechanical systems, hardware and software debugging, and deployment or integration at customer locations.

Build and integrate tools for configuring, simulating, and testing robots; optimize scalable robot and sensor simulation systems; integrate APIs for distributed simulator deployments; and develop microservices using network communication protocols. The role requires strong C, C++, and Python skills, experience with physics simulation or robotics, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Design and develop the behavioral and autonomy architecture for real-world robots. Build systems that translate goals and robot state into coordinated actions, integrate perception, controls, navigation, and learned methods, and ensure safety through preconditions, fallbacks, timeouts, and recovery. Diagnose cross-stack issues involving latency, failures, and resource contention. Establish robust interfaces, review system-wide designs, and provide technical leadership across robotics teams.

Design and ship end-to-end teleoperation systems for bimanual home robots. Build VR and 3D operator interfaces, integrate headsets and controllers, develop motion-retargeting and optimization-based control, reduce perceived network latency, and create shared-autonomy capabilities. Specify ergonomic operator stations and collaborate across mechanical, robotics, and software teams. The role combines HCI, sensing, ergonomics, robotics, systems profiling, and empirical testing to deliver reliable tools used by operators in real-world settings.

Provides advanced technical support for robotic systems during commissioning and 24/7 customer operations. Diagnoses hardware, software, controls, Linux, network, and automation failures; analyzes logs and telemetry; develops integrations and support workflows; leads major incidents; coordinates engineering, field service, and customer teams; manages cases and corrective actions; validates AI-assisted diagnostics; and mentors engineers while improving system reliability and recovery times.

Design, build, and integrate software for autonomous robots across perception, sensor integration, localization, motion planning, control, and behavioral systems. Develop production robotics software using ROS, C++, and Python; debug real-time and concurrent systems; support hardware integration and field testing; collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders; and mentor junior engineers through code and design reviews.

As a Software Engineer in Robotics, you'll develop production software for Vision-Language-Action models, including data integration, benchmarking, and dataset management, collaborating with clients to enhance robot learning systems.

Develop simulation software, operational tools, and algorithms for aerospace and planetary robotic systems. Integrate software and hardware, support flight-software-in-the-loop testing, create operator tools for validating command sequences, and operate Mars rovers including Perseverance and Curiosity. The role requires software development, robotics simulation, 3D visualization, effective teamwork, and collaboration with experienced engineering staff.