Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

Tests and improves electro-mechanical robotic systems through control tuning, reliability validation, firmware regression testing, automated test scripting, and failure analysis. Designs test plans, fixtures, and equipment; analyzes test data; troubleshoots mechanical and electrical failures; implements corrective actions; and leads continuous improvement and lean lab practices.

Leads development, testing, maintenance, prototype design, and customer support for Kawasaki robotics systems used in semiconductor manufacturing. Serves as the technical focal point, coordinates mechanical, electrical, software, and prototype teams, responds to technical inquiries, and provides on-site field support during system startup, including domestic and international travel.

Owns industrial robot programming, controls, device integration, simulation, commissioning, and troubleshooting for robotic automation cells. Develops FANUC programs, integrates vision systems, PLCs, HMIs, conveyors, and industrial networks, and validates cycle time, safety, accuracy, and reliability. The role independently manages loosely defined tasks from simulation through startup, diagnoses motion and communication issues, maintains documentation, supports customer communication, and guides junior team members.

Leads controls engineering for robotic automation projects from concept through commissioning. Defines cell architectures, robot programs, safety systems, vision and sensor integration, PLC and HMI communications, calibration, validation, reliability, and troubleshooting. Leads multi-robot and external-axis systems, estimates controls effort, commissions cells on-site, communicates with customers, and mentors engineers.

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.

Designs and hardens security controls for autonomous vessel fleets across embedded edge systems, vessel networks, and cloud orchestration. Responsibilities include secure boot, hardware roots of trust, cryptographic identity, mutual authentication, key management, secure updates, NixOS hardening, dependency vulnerability management, container security, CI/CD security, threat modeling, and incident response. The role collaborates with autonomy, platform security, manufacturing, field, enterprise security, and application security teams.

Leads the design, programming, integration, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of robotic welding cells and automation systems. Oversees cell capability, uptime, cycle time, weld quality, safety, and repeatability while coordinating with manufacturing, engineering, quality, maintenance, planning, and vendors. Provides technical direction and training to robotics personnel, develops standards and documentation, supports production planning, and drives Lean improvements, root-cause analysis, reliability initiatives, and automation capital planning.

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, prototype, test, and troubleshoot mechanical systems for autonomous agricultural weeding robots. The engineer will own mission-critical vehicle systems, solve field issues, build durable designs, and collaborate across disciplines in a fast-paced startup environment. Designs must withstand challenging farm conditions and reach production quickly.

Develop computer vision and AI/ML software for robotic perception, including object detection, tracking, localization, pose estimation, and decision-making. Integrate and calibrate camera systems, test algorithms on physical robots, build data analysis tools, and validate system performance. The role involves production-quality C++ and Python, deep learning model training, unit testing, code reviews, documentation, and cross-functional agile collaboration.

Supports robotics process engineering in a hands-on startup environment. Plans, collects, analyzes, and communicates technical data; applies knowledge of materials, mechanisms, fabrication, heat and mass transfer, optics, CAD, programming, and machine shop tools. Collaborates with teammates and leadership, develops engineering practices, fulfills commitments, and grows technical competency through mentorship and initiative.

Robotics Process Engineer responsible for executing complex engineering tasks, including planning, quantitative analysis, documentation, instrumentation, fabrication or procurement, integration and testing. The role involves automated testing or component alignment using robotics, machine vision, or electrical test equipment, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and help establish engineering practices in a startup environment.

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.

Build, configure, test, troubleshoot, and improve Flippy robotic systems. Develop system-level verification, validation, regression, and reliability tests; create Python automation tools; diagnose hardware and software failures; analyze data and identify root causes. Support prototype development, system integration, and occasional customer deployments. The role combines hands-on assembly, physical testing, software and QA automation, and field support in an on-site Pasadena environment.

Develop and integrate embodied AI applications for robotic-assisted surgery. Design system architectures connecting edge AI, firmware, operating systems, hardware, and cloud services; build real-time sensor-fusion and robotic-control pipelines; optimize machine-learning models for embedded platforms; and lead end-to-end robotics projects. Collaborate with motion-control, perception, software, hardware, research, and product teams while maintaining safety, reliability, performance, and quality.

Develops and integrates robotic and autonomous systems spanning sensors, actuators, perception, motion planning, manipulation, navigation, SLAM, control, and human-robot interaction. Builds robotic software in C++ and Python, develops control GUIs, conducts laboratory and field testing, analyzes data, and reports results. Collaborates with research and business teams to translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements and deployable robotics solutions for energy applications.

Leads electrical design, integration, verification, and validation of robotic medical-device electromechanical systems. Responsibilities include PCB and circuitry design, IEC 60601 compliance, root-cause analysis, manufacturing collaboration, design-for-manufacturing, risk analysis, team leadership, and production support. The role requires advanced laboratory debugging, cross-functional coordination, and up to 25% domestic and international travel.

Lead the development and deployment of learned autonomy skills for heavy equipment. Build robot-learning proof of concepts, define technical roadmaps and system architectures, implement reinforcement and imitation learning policies, develop data and training workflows, transfer policies from simulation to physical machines, integrate with robotics systems, and establish reliable evaluation. The role requires hands-on coding, hardware debugging, cross-team technical leadership, mentoring, and delivery of production-quality autonomy capabilities.

Design, build, and integrate software for autonomous robots across sensor integration, motion planning, perception, localization, control, and behavioral systems. The role requires production experience with ROS or ROS 2, real-time and concurrent systems, sensor fusion, simulation environments, debugging, field testing, and hardware integration. The engineer will collaborate cross-functionally, translate ambiguous requirements into solutions, conduct code and design reviews, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop production C++ software for autonomous directed-energy systems, including sensor ingestion, tracking, control, and autonomy. Work with raw sensor data, threading, process architecture, latency analysis, and real-time performance. Build Python testing and range tools, debug hardware during weekly field tests, and collaborate across mechanical, electrical, optical, and software teams. The role requires hands-on implementation, rapid learning, and comfort operating in an ambiguous, fast-paced defense startup environment.

Build and maintain production infrastructure for deployed robotic machines, integrate robotic arms, sensors, input devices, and remote-operation equipment, and troubleshoot hardware-software issues. Develop interfaces and abstraction layers connecting hardware with data and machine learning pipelines. Collaborate with hardware and machine learning teams to deploy capabilities reliably under strict latency requirements.

Develop and deploy robotics software for warehouse automation, spanning perception, object detection, planning, manipulation, navigation, and hardware integration. Own features from ideation through testing and deployment, optimize system performance, conduct end-to-end debugging, analyze production data, and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role also involves simulation, documentation, safety compliance, and occasional domestic customer-site travel.

Supports software development, debugging, and integrated testing of robotic warehouse automation systems. Operates robots during test runs, analyzes logs and sensor data, documents issues, performs preliminary root-cause analysis, maintains test cases and technical documentation, and follows warehouse safety protocols. The role offers hands-on exposure to object detection, action planning, manipulation, navigation, and industrial automation, with opportunities to advance into full software development.

Build AI tools, agent workflows, APIs, automation systems, and evaluation capabilities for robotic engineering and research. Automate model training, experiment setup, testing, simulation, and real-robot evaluation. Develop logging, analysis, debugging, and data-generation tools while applying statistical rigor to experiments. Ensure solutions are reliable, secure, safe, measurable, and integrated into team operations. The role requires hands-on robotics experience, production Python, C++ familiarity, Linux, CI/CD, Docker, APIs, and distributed systems.

Develop embedded robotics software for motion control, trajectory generation, multi-axis coordination, diagnostics, and EtherCAT-based distributed control systems. Collaborate with engineering, product, manufacturing, field service, and customers to define features, troubleshoot issues, design tests, and improve software quality through automated testing and DevOps practices.