Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead integration of autonomous hardware and software onto production work vehicles, from early prototypes through dependable field deployment. Responsibilities include vehicle platform bring-up, device setup, calibration, performance tuning, diagnostics, validation criteria, release gates, and collaboration with engineering, field operations, and safety teams. The role supports industrial-site deployments and production readiness across multiple countries.

Develop and improve Skydio’s drone simulator, including core architecture, physics and dynamics, sensor and hardware modeling, autonomy-stack integration, performance, and fidelity. Build real-time C++ and Python components, collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers, debug complex software-physical interactions, and contribute to simulator strategy and documentation.

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.

Build and own the robotics simulation platform, including environments, robot models, actuator and contact modeling, GPU-parallel training infrastructure, system identification, domain randomization, regression testing, and CAD-to-simulation asset pipelines. The role focuses on improving simulation fidelity, performance, reproducibility, and sim-to-real transfer for controls, planning, SLAM, and manipulation systems.

Develop and maintain real-time actuator and motor-control firmware for robotic systems from prototype through production. Design hierarchical feedback-control systems, architect reliable embedded software, validate motor controllers and sensors, and collaborate with electrical and mechanical engineers on custom hardware. Build calibration and sensing pipelines for encoders, current, voltage, filtering, synchronization, and system characterization while implementing safety mechanisms and meeting production timing and robustness requirements.

Design and develop control systems for production robots, translating high-level motion commands into precise whole-body behavior. Implement hierarchical feedback loops, motor control software, compliant and force-sensitive controllers, and QP-based whole-body control. Develop embedded, real-time software integrated with custom hardware and communication interfaces. Build pipelines for sensing, encoder calibration, filtering, synchronization, and system characterization while ensuring robotic safety, timing, reliability, and robustness.

Design and ship end-to-end teleoperation systems for bimanual home robots. Build VR and 3D operator interfaces, integrate headsets and controllers, develop motion-retargeting and optimization-based control, reduce perceived network latency, and create shared-autonomy capabilities. Specify ergonomic operator stations and collaborate across mechanical, robotics, and software teams. The role combines HCI, sensing, ergonomics, robotics, systems profiling, and empirical testing to deliver reliable tools used by operators in real-world settings.

Build and deploy vertically integrated robotic systems across hardware and software. Responsibilities include integrating sensors, troubleshooting cross-stack issues, bringing new robots from first power-on through deployment, configuring customer-specific workflows, validating robots at customer sites, and creating runbooks and tooling. The role requires hands-on experience with robotic or electromechanical systems, hardware and software debugging, and deployment or integration at customer locations.

Design and develop the behavioral and autonomy architecture for real-world robots. Build systems that translate goals and robot state into coordinated actions, integrate perception, controls, navigation, and learned methods, and ensure safety through preconditions, fallbacks, timeouts, and recovery. Diagnose cross-stack issues involving latency, failures, and resource contention. Establish robust interfaces, review system-wide designs, and provide technical leadership across robotics teams.

Build and maintain robotics software for simulation and real robotic arm hardware across motion planning, control, perception, and manipulation. Prototype ideas, harden successful systems for deployment, and develop tests and metrics to measure robot performance and prevent regressions. The role requires ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and practical expertise in robotics software development.

Build and maintain robotics software for robotic arms, mobile robots, sensors, grippers, and laboratory instruments. Develop motion planning, perception, safety logic, task execution, simulation, and recovery workflows for automated biology labs. Integrate hardware and instruments, debug physical systems, support material handling and sample tracking, and collaborate with scientists and engineers to automate laboratory processes. Evaluate AI, computer vision, and autonomy techniques for reliable robotic execution.

Build and validate robotics simulation and digital-twin systems for laboratory automation. Develop Real2Sim and Sim2Real workflows, integrate perception, motion planning, AI models, sensors, and robot control systems, and create synthetic-data, telemetry, and evaluation tools. Benchmark performance, debug physical and simulated systems, support new equipment installations, and collaborate with robotics, software, AI, automation, and scientific teams.

Designs, prototypes, debugs, and brings up custom PCBs and electrical hardware for warehouse robots. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB layout, electrical architecture, hardware testing, design documentation, rapid prototyping, firmware integration, and collaboration with mechanical, firmware, and software teams. The engineer also supports EMC-compliant production releases and works with fabrication houses and contract manufacturers to transition boards from prototype to production.

Designs, validates, and deploys precision PCBA test fixtures and infrastructure for robotic systems. Responsibilities include mechanical architecture, CAD and released drawings, probe and bed-of-nails fixtures, tolerance and force analysis, hands-on assembly and debugging, acceptance testing, vendor coordination, documentation, and contract-manufacturer deployment. The role requires collaboration across electrical, firmware, software, manufacturing, and reliability teams to ensure repeatable, safe, maintainable fixture operation.

Build and operate a robotic test fleet for Neuralink’s surgical robots. Develop component test rigs, fixtures, sensing, logging, and automated verification and validation workflows. Diagnose failures across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and software; collaborate with simulation and HIL engineers; and convert failures into repeatable regression tests. The role requires hands-on robotics experience, hardware troubleshooting, test automation, instrumentation, and disciplined evidence-based release judgment.

Design, build, program, integrate, and deploy robotic manufacturing cells for high-voltage pulsed-power hardware. Responsibilities include robot selection, end-effector and fixture design, machine vision and sensor integration, PLC and motion-control integration, safety architecture, automated assembly and inspection, maintenance practices, and production-line development. The role partners with mechanical and electrical engineers, supports design for automated assembly, and helps grow the robotics team in a fully onsite startup environment.

Provides advanced technical support for robotic systems during commissioning and 24/7 customer operations. Diagnoses hardware, software, controls, Linux, network, and automation failures; analyzes logs and telemetry; develops integrations and support workflows; leads major incidents; coordinates engineering, field service, and customer teams; manages cases and corrective actions; validates AI-assisted diagnostics; and mentors engineers while improving system reliability and recovery times.

The Robotics Engineer will design, configure, troubleshoot robotic systems and support electrical/software design, ensuring compliance with safety standards and optimizing production processes.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.