Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Develop, integrate, and validate autonomy features for autonomous vehicles, lead technical executions for deployments, and debug systems across sensors and software stacks.

Lead the Cell Platform team owning the software/hardware layer between firmware and application on robot cells. Responsible for product roadmap, releases, hands-on development, hiring, and cross-team partnerships. Deliver embedded Linux/BSP bring-up, sensor integration, real-time determinism, middleware (ROS2/DDS) and data transport design, containerized images, CI/CD release engineering, and fleet-scale OTA/provisioning and observability for production robot fleets.

Engineer low-latency, high-throughput sensor and actuator pipelines, optimize system performance, and integrate complex models into real-time workflows while collaborating across teams.

As a GPU Inference Engineer, improve model serving efficiency, optimize performance, and build infrastructure to support AI systems at scale.

Design and scale infrastructure for multimodal training at OpenAI, focusing on distributed data systems and collaborating with researchers.

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.

As a Robotics System Integration Engineer, you'll integrate and test robotic systems, triage issues, and ensure reliable operation across hardware and software layers.

Design, implement, and optimize software for robotics data collection and evaluation across diverse hardware. Own hardware integration lifecycle, develop robot control interfaces, build automation tooling for policy evaluation, and lead data collection, visualization, and quality control while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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 intelligent robotic control algorithms, integrate with sensors, validate models, ensure system performance, and work in a fast-paced startup environment.

The Lead Robotics Software Engineer will develop key functionalities of Dapster's robot technology, focusing on motion planning and navigation algorithms.

Develop robotics software for tractor-mounted AI systems, focusing on perception and localization algorithms. Optimize code for performance and support across software and hardware stacks.

As a Robotics Software Engineer, you will develop software for AI-powered camera systems focused on perception and localization, optimizing code for edge computing performance.

The Senior Embedded Engineer leads firmware development and hardware-firmware integration, collaborates with teams for system performance, and mentors others in troubleshooting.

Design, build, test, and maintain the mission behavior engine for robots across the stack: core behavior capabilities, scalable APIs, cloud integrations, AI/NLP configuration, and backend infrastructure. Own projects from design through deployment, collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure quality via testing and CI, and drive architectural decisions.

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

Lead design and delivery of autonomy and robotics systems: manage CI/CD, builds, deployments, configuration, and testing for hardware/software/IoT systems; develop automation for infrastructure provisioning; ensure OTA security; mentor team and manage project schedules and budgets.

Develop and maintain core robot software for warehouse fleets using ROS 2, C++/Python. Integrate sensors, implement state estimation, localization, navigation, and motion control. Build and test in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop, debug physical robots, optimize onboard compute, and support deployments at customer sites.

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

Lead system-level architecture and integration across mechanical, electrical, and software domains for an autonomous rebar-tying robot. Establish systems engineering practice, write requirements and ICDs, drive hazard analysis and risk assessment, perform trade studies and root-cause investigations, translate field feedback into design changes, and mentor engineers while aligning technical tradeoffs with business priorities.

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.

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.

Design, implement, and deploy autonomy software across perception, localization, sensor fusion, navigation, planning, and embedded inference. Work from prototype through simulation, HITL, flight test, and deployment, collaborating with hardware, sensing, and ML teams. Develop evaluation pipelines, metrics, and tooling; optimize for real-time embedded compute under SWaP and latency constraints; design for degraded operation, fault detection, and uncertainty-aware decision-making.

Analyze and validate multi-modal robotics data, build automated validation pipelines and visualization tools, define quality metrics and schemas, synchronize cross-modal timestamps, catalog failure modes, and work with collection teams to trace and fix data issues.