Top Robotics Engineer Jobs

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 technical architecture and execution for medical device mechatronic systems—integrating software, electronics, optics, sensors, and algorithms. Guide cross-functional teams through design, verification, regulatory compliance, risk management, and commercialization while mentoring engineers and evaluating emerging enabling technologies.

Own safety-critical robotic arm control software, including motion limits, collision response, stopping behavior, control-loop monitoring, and real-time operation. Build hardware-in-the-loop test benches integrated with continuous integration, maintain safety evidence and stopping-time measurements, and document control designs. The role requires physical-system controls experience, strong C++ and Python skills, Linux real-time programming, physics and dynamics knowledge, mission-critical software experience, and hardware-in-the-loop testing expertise.

Designs and integrates six-axis robotic manufacturing cells for government projects, including robot transporters, motion systems, end-of-arm tooling, CAD assemblies, manufacturing drawings, and structural validation. The role owns designs from customer requirements through deployment, selects components, maintains BOMs in PDM, manages suppliers and machine shops, ensures safety-standard compliance, prototypes hardware, mentors engineers, and supports customer-site validation.

Develop and deploy advanced robotic and autonomous systems for energy-transition applications. Responsibilities include designing, integrating, testing, and validating electromechanical, mechanical, fluidic, sensing, actuation, and control systems; developing motion planning, perception, manipulation, and human-robot interaction capabilities; leading technical projects and proposals; coordinating internal and external partners; and presenting progress to executive stakeholders.

Own software releases and integration for robotic systems, coordinating release scope, readiness criteria, testing, deployment, and fleet monitoring. Responsibilities include assembling reproducible releases, maintaining regression and endurance test plans, debugging failures through logs and code, shipping updates to internal and customer robots, managing hotfixes, and improving test coverage. The role partners with engineering, product, infrastructure, quality assurance, operations, and support teams.

Execute manual and structured testing of robotic systems in lab and controlled environments. Monitor robot behavior, identify and reproduce bugs, document failures, validate fixes, perform regression testing, and improve QA procedures and checklists. Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve issues and provide real-time feedback on system performance, safety, and reliability.

Develop and integrate machine drivers, hardware abstractions, sensor and actuator interfaces, and vehicle-specific software for Hive’s autonomous robotics platform. Connect vehicle data, commands, diagnostics, and telemetry; configure and calibrate systems; debug hardware-software issues; and create automated, simulation, regression, and hardware-in-the-loop tests. Validate robotic systems on real machines, support field commissioning and customer acceptance, and help develop reusable integration patterns.

Design, build, and maintain robotics software for simulation and real robotic hardware. Work across motion planning, control, perception, and manipulation; rapidly prototype ideas and harden successful systems for reliable deployment. Develop tests, metrics, and monitoring to measure robot performance, detect regressions, and reduce simulation-to-reality gaps. Collaborate with a senior team while independently owning problems from discovery through implementation.

Develop, deploy, test, and support software for high-DOF robotic manufacturing systems used in government projects. Build algorithms for planning, learning, perception, and control; execute proofs of concept; prototype sensors, tools, and processes; and collaborate with systems, applications, and robotics software engineers. Maintain deployed software, rapidly iterate on the software stack, evaluate emerging robotics technologies, and transition R&D prototypes into production code.

Build and integrate robotic vehicle and aircraft platforms, including mechanical enclosures, mounts, cable harnesses, power systems, drive-by-wire, actuators, motors, and sensors. Design components in parametric CAD, fabricate prototypes, manage vendors, document builds, and bring up and verify systems. Support field testing, client demonstrations, procurement, maintenance, and on-site repairs in demanding outdoor environments.

Build end-to-end sensor data pipelines that ingest multi-sensor captures (video, depth, inertial, audio), perform segmentation, pre-labeling, automated QC, privacy redaction, encoding and packaging, and deliver validated, versioned datasets at petabyte scale for frontier AI labs.

Lead the end-to-end architecture and development of robotic systems for large-scale solar construction. Design and iterate on hardware and software, establish engineering, testing, validation, and documentation standards, close technical capability gaps, mentor the robotics team, and coordinate with hardware, software, manufacturing, and deployment leaders. The role is hands-on and based in San Francisco with regular travel to West Texas.

Develops, deploys, programs, and improves automated manufacturing systems with a focus on robotics. Responsibilities include supporting equipment, evaluating hardware and software, teaching robot points, developing robotic solutions, troubleshooting electrical and pneumatic systems, addressing obsolescence, and supporting manufacturing process launches. Requires an engineering degree or equivalent experience and at least three years designing, programming, or integrating automated equipment and robotic solutions.

Leads architecture and delivery of robotic data-collection platforms, end effectors, sensing systems, and customer workcells from requirements through field deployment. Responsibilities include hardware design, prototyping, validation, reliability testing, manufacturing documentation, system integration, deployment, troubleshooting, technical reviews, standards development, and mentoring. The role collaborates with robotics, controls, machine learning, manufacturing, safety, operations, suppliers, and customers while establishing scalable hardware platforms and deployment processes.

Conduct robot learning research across simulated and real robotic systems, training and evaluating imitation learning, diffusion, VLA, and reinforcement learning policies. Build evaluation infrastructure and scalable pipelines for synthesizing, annotating, and curating robotics datasets. Analyze how data affects policy performance, reproduce state-of-the-art research, deploy policies on robot hardware, and contribute findings to leading robotics, computer vision, and machine learning publications.

Design and implement high-performance algorithms for robotic guidance, inspection, 3D perception, and navigation in dynamic industrial environments. Build production-ready C++ software, optimize real-time embedded systems, and contribute throughout development from prototyping through deployment. Collaborate across teams to deliver commercial robotics solutions for manufacturing and maintenance applications.

Develop production C++ and Python software for industrial robots used in assembly and inspection. Integrate cameras, sensors, and actuators; implement calibration, coordinate transforms, and real-time data pipelines; architect reliable multi-process and multithreaded systems; collaborate on 3D vision deployment; and build testing, debugging, and deployment infrastructure.

Develop and lead robotics software for motion and trajectory planning, kinematics, robot control, world modeling, and hardware integration. Build collision-free planning systems, real-time driver layers, validation suites, and learning-based robotics capabilities. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate with hardware and process teams, and ensure reliable, safe operation on physical robots.

Leads systems engineering for robotic surgical end effectors and electromechanical subsystems. Translates clinical and user needs into requirements, architectures, interfaces, and verification strategies. Coordinates integration across electrical, mechanical, software, controls, clinical, quality, and regulatory teams. Supports risk management, design history file documentation, system verification and validation, technical trade studies, and process improvements while mentoring engineers.