Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

Conduct original robotics research across areas such as robot learning, perception, planning, control, safety, systems, and mechatronics. Develop and implement novel methods on real robots and in simulation, integrate capabilities into intelligent systems, publish research, identify system-level requirements, and collaborate with multidisciplinary researchers and external partners to shape Arm’s robotics technology roadmap.

Build and operate a robotic test fleet for Neuralink’s surgical robots. Develop component test rigs, fixtures, sensing, logging, and automated verification and validation workflows. Diagnose failures across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and software; collaborate with simulation and HIL engineers; and convert failures into repeatable regression tests. The role requires hands-on robotics experience, hardware troubleshooting, test automation, instrumentation, and disciplined evidence-based release judgment.

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.

Design and deploy vision and robotics systems for automated wire-harness production. Build perception pipelines (classical CV and/or ML), perform camera/hand-eye calibration, develop and tune robot motion for pick/place, routing, insertion, and termination, and deploy and harden systems on the production floor. Collaborate with mechanical, controls, and production teams to improve cycle time, yield, and reliability.

Conduct original robotics research across learning, perception, planning, control, safety, systems, and mechatronics. Develop and evaluate methods on real robotic platforms and simulations, integrate multidisciplinary capabilities into intelligent systems, publish research, identify system-level bottlenecks, and influence the technical roadmap for future robotics compute and software platforms.

Own and advance autonomous robotics features, including localization, SLAM, planning, control, and multisensor fusion. Conduct experiments, verification and validation, performance analysis, failure-mode investigations, and system integration on embedded platforms. Collaborate with engineering teams, suppliers, and external partners while contributing to standards and code reviews. Mentor junior engineers and ensure reliable, safe field performance of robotic systems.

Designs, programs, tests, commissions, and supports industrial robotic systems. Develops robot programs, configures end-of-arm tooling and vision systems, integrates robots with PLCs and safety systems, optimizes cycle times, troubleshoots equipment, performs root cause analysis, and supports continuous improvement. Manages automation projects and coordinates suppliers while collaborating with controls engineers and manufacturing teams.

Designs and develops electrical systems for uncrewed undersea vehicles, sensor payloads, and command-and-control systems. Responsibilities include analog and digital circuit design, PCB development, board bring-up, hardware debugging, sensor integration, embedded system interfaces, and lab, pool, and at-sea testing. The role collaborates with mechanical, software, and systems engineers while maintaining design and test documentation and contributing to electrical architectures and system requirements.

Design and develop autonomy software for autonomous aircraft, including perception, navigation, sensor fusion, state estimation, calibration, simulation, mapping, and advanced sensing. Optimize real-time AI algorithms, integrate autonomy systems, monitor performance, and collaborate with sensing, controls, and flight software teams. The role also involves technical architecture, documentation, code reviews, mentorship, and development of safe, scalable robotics software.

Leads robotics and automation strategy, standardization, integration, programming, commissioning, and optimization across North American manufacturing facilities. Evaluates automation opportunities, develops business cases and proof-of-concept solutions, and supports robotic cell design, PLC and vision integration, troubleshooting, safety compliance, and continuous improvement. Provides technical guidance and training to engineering teams while deploying advanced robotics, cobots, smart manufacturing, simulation, and virtual commissioning technologies across multiple plants.

Supports the design, integration, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of robotic automation systems used in production and testing. Responsibilities include mechanical CAD design, PLC and PC-based control programming, industrial robot integration, sensor and vision system integration, fixture fabrication, system troubleshooting, performance optimization, documentation, and collaboration with engineering teams and vendors.

Develop and deploy machine learning systems for humanoid robot manipulation, covering data collection, annotation, synthetic data generation, model training, simulation, hardware deployment, and fine-tuning. Diagnose vision, calibration, sensor fusion, model, and data bottlenecks to improve reliability. Build real-time robotic software using modern computer vision and deep learning, while mentoring engineers and driving architectural excellence across the robotics organization.

Lead development of perception, mapping, sensor fusion, and calibration systems. Improve SLAM for GPS-degraded environments, automate LiDAR and imagery alignment across sessions, eliminate field extrinsic measurements, and improve data quality and scalability for large-scale mapping and analytics delivery.

Architect and develop the mechatronics software stack for intelligent warehouse robots. Build real-time, high-performance C++ applications interfacing with hardware devices, sensors, peripherals, and motor controls. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, debugging production systems, code review, mentoring, testing, performance optimization, evaluating technologies, and documenting best practices. The role requires expertise in distributed and real-time systems, industrial communication protocols, Linux, software toolchains, and production-quality robotics software.

Provides technical support throughout the sales cycle for robotic solutions, consulting with customers, designing proof-of-concepts, building simulation models, and delivering demos, hackathons, workshops, and training. Develops customer-facing software and open-source contributions using C++, ROS, and robotics platforms. Feeds customer insights to product and R&D teams while supporting solution adoption and regularly traveling to customer sites and industry events.

Designs and integrates electrical and mechanical systems for humanoid robots, including PCB development, new robot form factors, rapid prototyping, deployment, and troubleshooting. The role requires hands-on experience with robotics, embedded systems, Linux and ROS 2, CAD and ECAD tools, electronics testing equipment, actuators, CAN bus, batteries, industrial requirements, component sourcing, and vendor coordination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Own Jetson’s developer experience, system performance, competitive intelligence, and product roadmap for edge AI and robotics. Lead requirements and release readiness across real-time execution, low-latency networking, RDMA, memory optimization, profiling tools, SDK usability, onboarding, documentation, and sample code. Partner with engineering, customers, partners, ISVs, and developers to prioritize performance-critical features and strengthen NVIDIA’s platform leadership.

Designs, builds, and integrates software for autonomous robots across sensor integration, motion planning, perception, localization, control, and behavioral systems. The role requires C++ and Python development, ROS or ROS 2 production experience, sensor fusion, simulation, real-time debugging, field testing, and hardware integration. Responsibilities include translating ambiguous requirements into production-quality solutions, collaborating cross-functionally, conducting code and design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.