Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

Lead pre-release software validation for laboratory robotics and automation systems. Develop automated testing tools, unit tests, functional and integration test plans, quality metrics, and release criteria. Perform cybersecurity validation, defect analysis, and release readiness assessments. Operate and troubleshoot integrated automation equipment involving robotics, machine vision, conveyors, sensors, pneumatic systems, and serial devices. Establish testing processes and documentation while collaborating with software, hardware, controls, and quality teams.

Designs and maintains software integrating laboratory instruments, robotics, automation platforms, data systems, and decision tools. Builds APIs, experimental workflow orchestration, sample tracking, scheduling, state management, error recovery, monitoring, and diagnostic capabilities for reliable autonomous research. Collaborates with scientists, robotics and automation engineers, and data scientists to develop scalable software supporting scientific databases, machine learning models, and closed-loop experimentation. Applies testing, Git, CI/CD, documentation, and containerization practices.

Lead hands-on systems engineering for autonomous heavy vehicles, validating autonomy features, integrating hardware, computing, communications, and software, and bringing new vehicle platforms into production. Responsibilities include sensor setup, calibration, tuning, diagnostic tool development, release-quality checks, and collaboration with engineering, operations, and safety teams. The role is on-site in San Francisco five days per week and includes up to 15% travel to customer sites.

Develop and deploy production robotics software across the stack, including real-time control, motion planning, machine learning, perception, compilers, firmware, and cloud services. Build data-labeling tools, integrate hardware and software across platforms, and install and tune systems at customer facilities. Collaborate closely in a small engineering team while taking ownership of technical outcomes and supporting products from initial development through live production use.

Train and evaluate robot control policies in simulation for manipulation and grasping tasks. Establish benchmark baselines, run controlled experiments with synthetic data, analyze results, and translate findings into data-engineering requirements. Present work at conferences and demos, collaborate with external partners, and eventually hire and lead a regional robotics research team.

Lead software system architecture for complex robotics products spanning embedded systems, edge computing, robotics middleware, connectivity, cloud services, and fleet platforms. Define requirements, interfaces, performance metrics, testing, security, deployment, and OTA strategies. Partner with clients, technical project managers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams to manage risks, schedules, budgets, and delivery. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on autonomy, AI, simulation, safety, and long-term serviceability.

Develop and integrate features for a robotic-assisted orthopedic platform across software, hardware, implants, and surgical instrumentation. Translate clinical needs into system requirements, design inputs, and acceptance criteria; develop prototypes; conduct experiments, testing, troubleshooting, and trade studies; analyze data; and maintain requirements traceability and design documentation. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, verification, software, clinical, and customer teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Leads the full lifecycle of warehouse material handling and automation projects, including system design, throughput analysis, vendor selection, controls and software integration, FAT/SAT, commissioning, performance validation, and operational handoff. Provides technical leadership for conveyors, sortation, AS/RS, robotics, PLC systems, scanners, and warehouse software. Troubleshoots system issues, manages technical scope and risks, coordinates OEMs and integrators, establishes acceptance criteria, and mentors engineering staff. The role requires substantial travel to installation and startup sites.

Lead system design and architecture for multidisciplinary hardware and software product-development projects. Serve as the technical client contact, define requirements and performance metrics, coordinate engineering and design teams, oversee system testing and validation, manage technical risks, and support project schedules, budgets, estimates, and delivery. Provide technical guidance and mentorship while ensuring products meet functional, performance, quality, timeline, and budget objectives.

Design and implement embedded robotics software for autonomous interceptor platforms. Develop real-time control loops, PID and advanced control algorithms, actuator and motor-driver interfaces, CAN communication, sensor fusion, and state estimation. Integrate camera and IMU data on NVIDIA Jetson systems, translate vision tracking into motor commands, and build Python tools for calibration, logging, and CI/CD. The role involves hands-on hardware testing, rapid prototyping, and collaboration in an onsite defense startup environment.

Builds developer and customer relationships across the Jetson ecosystem, guides partners through embedded Linux and Jetson software integration, promotes NVIDIA AI libraries and edge AI capabilities, supports production deployments, and communicates developer feedback to engineering and product teams to shape platform roadmaps, reference designs, positioning, and adoption.

Own and characterize a fleet of robotic hardware and capture devices, engineer controlled physical test environments, build instrumentation and ground-truth references, and integrate physical runs into automated evaluation systems. Execute robot bring-up, teleoperation, device-in-the-loop testing, and sim-to-real experiments. Automate calibration, data offload, and condition logging while maintaining safety procedures, fleet operations, documentation, and reproducible test protocols.

Develop robotics datasets and evaluations for embodied AI systems. Responsibilities include defining data schemas, annotations, quality standards, collection protocols, validation tools, and review workflows. The role also involves running experiments to assess how data quality and structure affect model performance, collaborating with research, engineering, vendors, and customers, and taking research tools from conception through deployment.

Integrate and deploy robotic factory systems by architecting, building, testing, documenting, and commissioning mechatronic hardware and software. The role integrates sensors, actuators, motors, hydraulics, robot arms, control systems, and industrial automation hardware while optimizing mechanical, electrical, and software interfaces for reliability and safety. Responsibilities include systematic debugging, validation, field deployment support, and occasional travel to solar construction sites.

Design, build, test, and deploy software for robotic solar-farm installation systems. Develop perception, motion planning, controls, embedded, and low-level safety-critical software while controlling industrial automation hardware. Collaborate in a fast-paced startup environment, document and test code, and support field deployments at solar construction sites. The role is primarily based onsite at the San Leandro headquarters with approximately 10% travel.

Develop, integrate, test, and maintain C++ and Python software for underwater robotic vehicles and oceanographic systems. Responsibilities include ROS 1/ROS 2 development, sensor and subsystem integration, navigation and control, simulation, automated testing, data processing, troubleshooting, documentation, and field or sea operations. The engineer will modernize legacy systems, support vehicle readiness, diagnose issues in demanding environments, and collaborate with engineers, technicians, scientists, operators, and external partners.

Develop and maintain software infrastructure for autonomous robots, including device management, mission control, fleet coordination, cloud connectivity, and robotic device interfaces. Build reliable, scalable, real-time, and multithreaded systems using C++ and Python, integrate ROS/ROS 2 and cloud services, optimize robot-to-cloud communication, and document architectures and APIs. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support robotic operations in construction and industrial field environments.

Build and maintain robotics software for motion and trajectory planning, kinematics, controls, world modeling, device integration, and multi-robot coordination. Develop collision-free plans for physical robotic manipulators, contribute to learning-based methods and simulation, and validate systems through testing. Collaborate with hardware and process engineers, mentor teammates, review code, document systems, and ensure safe, reliable operation on real hardware.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux. Owns platform components through deployment and fleet operation, improves reliability and performance, diagnoses complex concurrency and systems issues, and translates safety requirements into software behavior and verification. Collaborates across autonomy, systems, hardware, and software teams while leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

Own electronics product development from architecture and schematic design through certification, pilot builds, and high-volume production. Lead PCBA design, EMC and safety compliance, signal and power integrity, thermal performance, production testing, root-cause analysis, and EMS collaboration. Design sensor interfaces, communication buses, motor drivers, and embedded power systems for robotic platforms. Mentor engineers, establish design standards, and provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary NPD teams.

Develop and deploy robotics software for intelligent manufacturing automation. Build internal tools, dashboards, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and production workflow features. Collaborate with operations, program management, and quality teams, write tested code, participate in reviews, and contribute to architecture and risk assessment. The role involves real production systems supporting aerospace and defense manufacturing and requires on-site work in Los Angeles.

Designs, integrates, tests, and verifies electrical and embedded systems for terrestrial and space robotics, including actuators, sensors, avionics, power systems, FPGA systems, circuit boards, and flight or ground-support equipment. Supports robotic vehicles, manipulators, aerial and underwater systems, and planetary exploration projects. Responsibilities include electrical circuit design, motor control, hardware integration, debugging, verification and validation, and documenting technical work in collaborative engineering teams.

Develop and deploy production robotics software for physical robots operating in complex outdoor environments. Responsibilities include robotics software development in C++ and Python, system integration across perception, planning, controls, teleoperation, and platform software, reliability engineering, debugging hardware and distributed-system issues, developer tooling, and on-robot validation.

Design complex automated systems and robotic equipment using advanced mechanical engineering principles and CAD tools. Develop assemblies, production drawings, BOMs, I/O lists, P&IDs, and other technical documentation. Support projects from concept through production implementation while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams. Apply expertise in machine design, mechanisms, materials, GD&T, tolerance analysis, DFM/DFA, motion control, pneumatics, sensors, and actuators.

Lead embedded firmware development for robotic hardware, including PCB bring-up, low-level drivers, diagnostics, testing, monitoring, and hardware integration. Troubleshoot component and interface issues, develop automated validation tools, manage test benches, and provide technical mentorship for hardware-firmware root-cause analysis.