Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

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.

Develops human-data capture and integration pipelines for robotics foundation models and reinforcement learning. Responsibilities include reconstructing 3D objects and environments, creating simulation-to-real training environments, designing multimodal policy architectures, evaluating robot foundation models, and transferring human manipulation skills to dexterous hands and humanoid robots.

Provides hands-on leadership for robotics, automation, and controls engineering in manufacturing. Designs and implements PLC, HMI, SCADA, motion, robotics, safety, and industrial network systems; commissions equipment; troubleshoots production systems; performs preventive maintenance and root cause analysis; improves OEE, reliability, scrap, and downtime; supports AMR/AGV and vision integration; develops dashboards; and trains and mentors technical personnel.

Develop production-grade robotics software for motion planning, collision checking, trajectory optimization, and robot trajectory generation. Build tooling, infrastructure, logging, metrics, and data pipelines to measure and improve motion-planning reliability and performance. Collaborate with controls and product teams to test robot motions on hardware, integrate motion capabilities, and support scalable warehouse-automation systems.

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.

Build and integrate robotic hardware and software for repeatable experiments, data collection, demonstrations, and learned-policy deployment. Develop calibration and diagnostic tools for coordinate frames, timing, and sensor quality. Create recording, teleoperation, and evaluation workflows while debugging failures across software, electronics, sensors, and mechanics. Improve system reliability through software enhancements and recovery procedures.

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.

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.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for dexterous robotics software and Physical AI infrastructure. Own manipulation use cases from definition through demonstration, integrating sensing, control, simulation, learned policies, data pipelines, testing, and deployment. Translate ambiguous R&D goals into delivery plans, establish production-grade reliability practices, coordinate cross-functional technical work, and mentor engineers. Develop core software in C++ and Python using ROS 2 while addressing timing, synchronization, safety, reproducibility, and performance constraints.

Develop and demonstrate AI-enabled robotic systems using robot arms, sensor-equipped hands, and application software. Integrate and troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, sensing, control, and AI components; evaluate robot behavior and sensor data; maintain reliable demonstration systems; and support customer evaluations, trade shows, and live troubleshooting. Translate customer feedback and research objectives into demonstrator requirements, test plans, and engineering improvements.

Lead enterprise robotics strategy and architect reusable AMR, cobot, and mobile manipulator platforms for global manufacturing. Define roadmaps, standards, and governance; oversee integration of perception, motion planning, fleet management, safety, IT/OT, and validation. Drive prototyping through factory validation and deployment, mentor engineers, manage supplier/system integrator relationships, establish an automation lab, and influence technology investments to scale robotics across sites.

Lead the product safety strategy for robotic systems, perform system-level hazard analyses and risk assessments, define safety requirements and verification plans, engage regulators and standards bodies, and scale the safety engineering function across hardware, software, controls, and research teams.

Design, prototype, test, and support rugged mechanical systems for robotic sensing and compute platforms. Responsibilities include CAD assemblies, structural and thermal analysis, sensor mounts, ingress protection, material selection, DFM/DFA, mechanical drawings, GD&T, BOMs, prototyping, shock and vibration testing, thermal validation, vendor coordination, QA, field debugging, and production scaling. The intern will collaborate across mechanical, electrical, compute, and systems engineering teams.

Own full sales and partnership cycle to bring voice AI to mobile service robots: engage senior robotics decision-makers, qualify and prioritize opportunities, close deals, and shape the commercial playbook while operating autonomously within a small technical team.

Manage the full deployment lifecycle for retail locations, coordinating installation, network setup, configurations, and troubleshooting, while building automation and ensuring quality.

As an ML Engineer - Robotics, you'll design, train, and deploy intelligent models for autonomous systems, focusing on perception, planning, and decision-making pipelines, while collaborating with robotics engineers to evaluate model performance.

Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-powered features and tooling for the CORI robotic surgery platform using ML, generative AI, computer vision, and AI-assisted developer tools. Build integrations, services, APIs, automation, and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring cybersecurity, privacy, quality, and regulatory compliance. Collaborate on architecture, prototyping, evaluation, deployment, and continuous improvement across robotic software and cloud systems.

Develop robotics-focused integrations for FiftyOne, support the open source community, and create technical blogs, tutorials, videos, courses, and documentation. Apply computer vision and machine learning to robotics perception, navigation, manipulation, and autonomous systems. Organize and speak at robotics events, collaborate through GitHub and Slack, and work with robotics datasets, multimodal sensor formats, simulation environments, models, and perception frameworks.

Leads automation and robotics integration for advanced energetic-materials manufacturing. Responsibilities include designing automated workflows and robotic cells, integrating controls and manufacturing data systems, managing vendors, commissioning production equipment, developing technical documentation, supporting production readiness, and ensuring machine safety and compliance. The role directs technicians and coordinates multidisciplinary teams across production, operations, quality, safety, and external integrators.

Develop, test, validate, and deploy production-ready skills and workflows for humanoid robots. Responsibilities include scripting behaviors with behavior trees or state machines, integrating robot skills into customer workflows, designing test plans, reproducing failures, validating in simulation and on hardware, and supporting occasional customer-site deployments. The role requires hands-on hardware work, Python development, Linux experience, and understanding of robotics from low-level control through task planning.

Develop datasets, evaluation methods, validation tools, and quality standards for robotics and embodied AI systems. Translate research needs into dataset specifications, design collection protocols, audit multimodal robotics data, and run experiments analyzing how data quality and structure affect model performance. Collaborate with research, engineering, data providers, and customers to improve robotics data offerings.

Designs, integrates, and deploys mechanical and robotic automation solutions for manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include defining problems, developing CAD designs, building tooling and fixtures, integrating robotics and vision systems, leading small project teams, conducting design reviews, supporting production-floor implementation, managing schedules and budgets, and developing team members.

Develops, integrates, tests, and verifies object-oriented software controlling robotic manipulators, precision motion systems, and other electromechanical equipment for radiation therapy products. The role involves hardware integration, control-system requirements, automated and system-level testing, troubleshooting, reliability analysis, production launches, documentation, and collaboration across software, mechanical, electrical, embedded, and systems engineering teams. Provides technical leadership, mentors colleagues, and supports safety, quality, and field-service escalations in a regulated environment.