Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Build and optimize high-throughput, low-latency robot autonomy software using modern C++, GPUs, CUDA, multithreading, and hardware accelerators. Develop performance tooling and infrastructure for tracing, profiling, benchmarking, and metrics. Collaborate across perception, decision-making, trajectory generation, optimization, and control teams to remove compute bottlenecks, deploy software to production robots, and scale performance across fleets.

Own end-to-end mechanical design of custom mobile manipulators by integrating robot arms with AMR/AGV bases. Create CAD models, mounting structures, cable routing, simulation-ready geometry, and mass, payload, and center-of-gravity analyses. Iterate multiple design concepts, document tolerances and assembly procedures, and support physical builds. Collaborate with simulation and platform evaluation engineers during validation. This is a hands-on mechanical and mechatronic design role focused on hardware integration rather than robotics software or controls.

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.

Design and implement embedded hardware and firmware for a small-scale AS/RS robotics system: select microcontrollers and sensors, write and optimize firmware, create schematics and PCB layouts, perform system-level and HIL testing, collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, and maintain design documentation through product lifecycle.

Own the software infrastructure supporting robot data collection and experimentation. Build robot-side and backend services, data pipelines, telemetry, deployment systems, and operator tools. Improve observability, reliability, testing, recovery, and rollback while diagnosing failures across devices, Linux, networking, concurrency, and storage. Collaborate with researchers and operators to prioritize improvements, document systems, and deliver durable fixes that increase experiment throughput and data quality.

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.

Design and integrate mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical hardware for robotic vehicle platforms. Responsibilities include CAD packaging, PCB design, sensor and compute integration, thermal and structural solutions, actuation and control systems, fabrication, hardware bring-up, debugging, validation, and field deployment support. The role spans the full hardware lifecycle and requires close collaboration across mechanical, electrical, embedded, sensor, and autonomy engineering teams.

Integrate control systems, autonomy software, and payloads onto large wheeled, legged, humanoid, and quadruped robotic platforms. Responsibilities include platform abstraction, robot controls, electro-mechanical integration, sim-to-real validation, SIL/HIL testing, safety systems, charging and docking infrastructure, fleet scaling, and field deployment. The role collaborates across autonomy, manipulation, mechanical, and electrical teams to deliver reliable robots for challenging industrial environments.