Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

The Software Engineer Intern will develop safety-critical software for robotic systems, collaborating with various engineering teams to ensure functionality and reliability.

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer, you will maintain and improve the Tally software stack, develop new software packages, enhance autonomy and navigation, and assist in DevOps and CI/CD processes.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain the Tally software stack, enhance robot navigation and autonomy, and support CI/CD processes.

Develop motion planning and control systems for industrial robots, optimizing software performance and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions.

Design, build, test, and deploy robotics software for field-deployed solar-farm robots. Work across perception, motion planning, controls, and low-level embedded systems to safely operate industrial automation hardware in unstructured outdoor environments. Contribute to documentation, CI, and iterative improvements; support field deployments.

The Robotics System Test Engineer will lead test strategies for robotic systems, perform testing in outdoor environments, and ensure safety and reliability for autonomous operations.

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for complex robotics software supporting autonomous platforms. Design fault-tolerant systems for vehicle control, motion planning, localization, perception, controls, and fleet management. Collaborate across robotics, hardware, machine learning, perception, systems engineering, and product teams; establish software standards, testing, deployment, and validation practices; debug hardware-software integrations; and mentor engineers. The role focuses on reliable, safety-critical production software for autonomous agricultural and heavy machinery.

Design and validate mechanical systems for deployment machines: chassis, drivetrains, manipulators, and end effectors. Produce CAD, detailed drawings, GD&T, and DFM handoff. Run FEA and fatigue analysis, build and test prototypes, and drive vendor relationships to scale prototypes into field-deployed fleets in harsh outdoor environments.

Lead machine-level systems engineering for robotics: derive requirements from deployment targets, define use cases and interfaces, build error/performance budgets, run verification/validation, own safety architecture, support integration, field-commission devices, and drive cross-functional alignment.

Build and own hardware test function for robotic systems: design fixtures and rigs, create test plans, instrument DAQ systems, run environmental and durability tests, diagnose root causes, build reliability models, and automate test reporting to qualify machines for field deployment.

Design and own electrical systems for off-grid deployment robots: end-to-end PCB design, power electronics and battery systems, motor drives integration, sensor and compute integration, EMI/EMC and safety, field bring-up and debugging, and manufacturer handoff for production.

Design and integrate electrical and firmware systems for heavy mobile robots: motor control, power distribution, sensing (encoders, IMU, RTK-GNSS), embedded real-time control (CAN/EtherCAT), safety interlocks, bench and field bring-up, and ruggedization for harsh environments. Support prototype-to-fleet transition through harness DFM, supplier coordination, and field debugging.

Design, implement, and own backend and real-time systems for deployed robots, including Rust services, low-latency streaming, FlatBuffers schemas, ROS2 integrations, fleet tooling, observability, and debugging on hardware in San Francisco.

Design and write software for surgical robots, ensuring reliability and precision in high-stakes medical applications, while collaborating in a meritocratic environment.

The Senior/Staff Linux Software Engineer will design and implement a vision compute pipeline on an embedded Linux platform and optimize controls for medical robotic systems.

Design and develop the mechanical aspects of data-center robotics including end effectors, docking, and robot-plant interfaces. Rapidly prototype, test to failure, instrument trials, and productionize hardware with DFM, reliability, and spare strategies while collaborating closely with controls and software teams.

Build software for data-center robotics including task planning, fleet coordination, perception, navigation stacks, and integration with company systems. Ship autonomy glue combining perception, navigation, and task logic. Own operational tooling for monitoring, teleoperation fallback, and diagnostics. Integrate robotics mission and exception data into platform. Require production robotics experience, ROS or equivalent middleware, remote-failure engineering, enterprise integration, and hardware-software debugging.

Design, develop, test, and debug features for autonomous construction equipment while optimizing controls systems and maintaining code quality standards.

Lead the design, development, and deployment of autonomous systems for heavy construction equipment while mentoring engineering teams and improving system performance.

The Planning & Controls Engineer will develop and deploy planning and control systems for robotics in outdoor environments, working on trajectory generation and real-time control techniques.

Develop software for motion control and safety management of robotic systems. Collaborate with teams, contribute to the software lifecycle, and lead prototype integration.

The Robotics Controls Engineer will develop advanced motion control systems for robotics, integrating software and hardware across multiple disciplines while implementing effective control algorithms and ensuring safety and efficiency.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll ensure robotics system reliability, build telemetry integration, and develop tools for diagnostics and automation, collaborating with engineering teams for enhanced production reliability.

As a Robotics Research Engineer, you will design, implement, and deploy intelligent robotic systems, focusing on system architecture and control methods for manufacturing applications.

Assemble, test, and bring up humanoid robotic subsystems and full systems; interpret drawings and wiring diagrams; troubleshoot electromechanical issues; support prototyping, validation, documentation (BOMs, work instructions), and partner with supply chain and operations.