Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

As a Senior Software Engineer in Robotics, you will transition Perception tasks to machine learning, focusing on system integration and optimization.

The Robotics Application Engineer will design, develop, and deploy software for robotic systems, integrating solutions into production environments while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance performance.

Design, implement, and maintain production robotics software across the autonomy stack including ROS-based control, sensor integration, motion planning, and embedded C++ systems. Work hands-on with hardware to debug, calibrate, and optimize robots for real-world construction environments and build production monitoring and diagnostics infrastructure.

Lead system-level architecture and integration across mechanical, electrical, software, perception, and safety for an autonomous construction robot. Establish systems engineering practices, write requirements and ICDs, run trade studies, perform hazard analyses, translate field feedback into design changes, lead reviews and root-cause investigations, and mentor engineers while aligning technical risk with business priorities.

Design and implement near real-time controls, motion planning, and networking systems for deployed robots. Optimize stacks for high-frequency data, tune drivers/kernels/middleware for real-time performance, and build telemetry and tooling for latency measurement, debugging, and fault detection. Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, autonomy, perception, and deployment teams to ensure safe, low-latency, and reliable robot operation.

Design components and systems for production robots, ensuring performance and manufacturability. Collaborate with engineers to support product development.

The Robotics Controls Engineer will design and maintain control systems for autonomous haul trucks, focusing on localization, path following, and control algorithms, while collaborating with cross-functional teams and debugging issues.

Develop high-level autonomy systems for coordinating fleets of autonomous haul trucks in mining environments, focusing on path planning, multi-vehicle coordination, and dispatch systems.

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.

Develop and lead software for robotic systems, focusing on control, sensing, teleoperation, and integration with AI and hardware teams.

Build and ship web and CLI product surfaces for robotics developers using TypeScript and Go. Design features, iterate from prototype to production, engage with customers, and contribute to technical and product decisions to improve developer experience and observability.

Develop, test, and deploy core robotics libraries and runtime application software across the robotics stack to improve warehouse operations. Work with the software team and CTO, own design through implementation and testing, and act as tech lead on projects.

Design, build, test, and iterate mechatronic systems for a robotic solar-farm factory. Integrate sensors, actuators, motors, hydraulics, robot arms, PLCs, and control systems. Commission and optimize mechanical, electrical, and software interfaces to ensure reliability and safety for factory and field deployments.

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer, you'll develop and maintain robotics software, interface with hardware, and implement motion planning for production-level robotic systems.

Design and develop software for robotic systems, focusing on performance optimization, motion planning, and collaboration with hardware engineers. Conduct simulations to validate system performance.

Design and implement real-time control systems for multi-DOF robotic manipulators, focusing on torque control, trajectory optimization, inverse dynamics, and state estimation. Build optimization-based controllers, fuse multi-sensor data, validate in simulation and on hardware, and own controller performance through bring-up, tuning, and regression testing while integrating with autonomy, hardware, and testing teams.

Develop and own safety-critical, real-time robotics software (localization, sensor fusion, fail-safe communications, motion-stopping). Integrate safety toolchains, contribute to HARA/DFMEA, build diagnostics, mentor engineers, and scale safety practices across the stack.

Responsible for design, planning, and management of projects, ensuring customer satisfaction for automation and robotics systems. Requires troubleshooting, programming, and customer training while maintaining quality and efficiency.

Design, test, and optimize electromechanical systems and motor control firmware. Specify and tune BLDC motors, harmonic drives, and gearboxes. Implement FOC firmware on microcontrollers and integrate industrial communications (EtherCAT, CAN). Collaborate with mechanical engineers on joint design and thermal management to improve efficiency and torque density.

Develop and evaluate high-resolution tactile sensing and dexterous manipulation systems by processing tactile and force-torque data, implementing slip-detection and compliant control, training multi-fingered grasping policies, integrating solutions into robotic platforms, and conducting experiments to validate performance.

The Robotics Test Engineer will design and execute test suites, build automation frameworks, and manage test requests to ensure quality in autonomous vehicle software. Responsibilities include coordinating field tests, analyzing results, and improving testing processes.

The Staff Software Integration Engineer will develop motion control software for robots, manage firmware development, and work with hardware teams on prototypes.

The Senior Robotics Manipulation Engineer will address manipulation and control challenges by developing models and improving software in robotic systems.

As a Mechanical & Robotics Engineer, you'll design and produce hardware for an assistive robotic arm, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive product development from concept to production.

As a Robotics System Engineer, you will architect large-scale software/hardware systems, gather customer requirements, and support engineering teams in testing and validation to exceed expectations.