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Robotics Engineer Jobs in Palo Alto, CA

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Los Altos, CA7 days ago

strong>Position Overview:

Looking for a consultant to deploy and extend our Python metrics pipeline for processing robotics test data (ROS2) in AWS. ECLARO is currently recruiting for a Robotics Metrics Infrastructure Engineer in the Los Altos, CA area for one of our clients.

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San Jose, CA2 days ago

$186,000–$225,000 Per Year

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Mountain View, CA5 days ago

$200,000–$260,000 Per Year

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San Jose, CA9 days ago

$100,000–$180,000 Per Year

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Milpitas, CA9 days ago

$100,000–$140,000 Per Year

Known for consistently delivering projects on time and within budget, the firm fosters a supportive environment where engineers have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully, expand their technical expertise, and work alongside industry veterans on challenging and rewarding projects. Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal.

Palo Alto30 days ago

$64–$65 Per Hour
Temporary
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Help develop, automate, and validate real-world testing environments for firmware and controls functionality tied to compliance, stability, and customer-facing energy features. Support the validation and controls engineering efforts behind Client's Energy residential products including Powerwall and grid-connected backup systems.

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Santa Clara, CA2 days ago

$124,000–$171,000 Per Year

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South San Francisco, CA2 days ago

$112,500–$300,000 Per Year

p>This role is similar to being a hands-on AI startup CTO inside Zipline: you report directly to the Head of Operations, work in a small team, own delivery of important projects, move quickly from problem discovery to shipped product, and partner directly with users.

You will work closely with operators, engineers, product teams, and business leaders to understand user needs, define the right technical approach, and implement solutions that improve how Zipline runs.

Cupertino,, California30+ days ago

$60–$65 Per Hour
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The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

Provide design and tradeoff guidance to Product Design teams through early-stage simulations, particularly for fast charging and high-power functions.

Sunnyvale, CA7 days ago

$31.45–$42.95

You must be able to initiate and consult on original and creative technical efforts; This may include the following:

Evaluate and integrate new technologies in cooling, interconnect and other relevant areas to develop future solution set for company networking products.
Provide project scoping and resource planning to support new product development and relevant technologies for the project; Track deliverables in support of programs and resolve cross-functional issues.

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Mountain View, CA2 days ago

$220,000–$240,000 Per Year

li>Proven track record of successfully leading the development, launch, and full product lifecycle of complex hardware products, preferably in robotics, autonomous vehicles, automotive, or industrial automation. The Director will ensure strong cross-functional collaboration with other teams, interact with customers and vendors, contribute significantly to the company’s overall product roadmap and strategic objectives, and overall foster a culture of innovation and execution excellence.

Cupertino, CA14 days ago

$53–$56 Per Hour

p>Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's or master's degree (MS/PhD preferred) in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
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San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$45–$48 Per Hour

Responsibilities include developing and manufacturing an autonomous delivery robot platform and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient production and quality control. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

You will be responsible for installing and configuring robotic arms, cameras, and grippers, running calibration and inverse kinematics (IK) tests, and ensuring seamless integration between physical robots and machine learning (ML) models. You will work closely with simulation engineers to align virtual and physical setups, support real-world data collection, and log performance metrics for continuous improvement.

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Mountain View, CA5 days ago

This research and development supports a wide variety of NASA and non-NASA customers through direct technology delivery, field testing (in extreme environments and on the International Space Station), and deployment.

The Intelligent Robotics Group (irg.arc.nasa.gov) conducts aggressive and focused research and development for robot missions on Earth and in space.

Sunnyvale, CA30 days ago

$189,000–$270,000 Per Year

Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C. San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Cupertino, CA16 days ago

$50–$54 Per Hour

You must be familiar with assembling, performing testing QA of the solutions, including final deployment environments, capable testing robots that go from point A to point B, know the mechanics, how the different parts are connected, and how to operate using the software. " Tasks include the ability to debug the deployed solutions, perform the QA and assist with debugging issues.

Palo Alto, California30+ days ago

Its software-defined hardware approach powers military and commercial-grade autonomous systems across sea, air, and land to sense, decide, and act together in complex and contested environments.

As a Robotics Engineer – Ground Autonomy, you will design, build, and deploy autonomy systems for unmanned ground vehicles operating in complex, unstructured environments.

Milpitas, California20 days ago

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Dynamic Motion Planning: Architect and implement advanced local planners (e.g., optimization-based approaches like MPC, MPPI, or custom contouring control) that translate AI-generated routes into trajectories that a heavy, non-holonomic base can physically execute on uneven terrain.

WBC Integration: Architect the local planning interfaces to seamlessly pass base trajectories, velocity limits, and dynamic constraints to our upcoming Whole-Body Control (WBC) architecture, bridging the gap between base mobility and upper-body manipulation.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

backed by an amazing group of investors, co-led by Fifty Years (Scott Phoenix) and BoxGroup, with participation from Betaworks and Pace Capital, plus standout angels including Logan Kilpatrick (Google AI), Mohith Mothukuri (Physical Intelligence), and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel).

We’re transforming the world’s ~50 million software engineers into robotics engineers by building a full-stack platform—hardware, software, infra, and ML—designed from first principles for performance, usability, and cost.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

p style="min-height:1.5em">As a Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer, you'll serve as the first line of technical defense for our growing fleet of robotic systems deployed across warehouse and external data-collection environments. Primary Robot Fleet Issue Technical Triage Point: Manage incoming fleet issue ticket queue, prioritize based on fleet-wide implications and operational goals, and triage as hardware, software, or operational issue.

Sunnyvale, CA30 days ago

$250,000–$400,000 Per Year

Proven track record shipping learning-based systems - behavior cloning, RL, or VLA policies - to real robots in production or near-production settings.

Palo Alto, California28 days ago

You will own the end-to-end loop that takes a policy from simulation onto physical hardware and back again: integrating and maintaining physics simulators, building and operating teleoperation rigs for demonstration collection, bringing up and maintaining real robot platforms, and ensuring our software stack, drivers, calibration pipelines, and data recording infrastructure are reliable enough for both rapid iteration and reproducible experiments.

Working knowledge of the ROS/ROS 2 stack, including writing and debugging nodes, working with TF, message types, launch files, and integrating sensors (RGB-D cameras, force/torque sensors, IMUs).

San Jose, CA7 days ago

li>Collaborate with mechanical, controls, and systems engineers to perform failure and root cause analyses, then implement design improvements in iterative R&D cycles.

Requirements:

Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or related field with a focus on mechanical/hardware systems.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

$215,280–$364,320 Per Year

This role is ideal for a strong hands-on engineer who can contribute deeply to humanoid robot control, whole-body motion generation, robot learning, and sim-to-real deployment, while helping coordinate technical direction and mentor a small team.

XPENG is a leading smart technology company at the forefront of innovation, integrating advanced AI and autonomous driving technologies into its vehicles, including electric vehicles (EVs), electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and robotics.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$210,000–$259,000 Per Year

Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World''s Most Experienced Driver-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$147,200–$208,250 Per Year

While you will have the support of dedicated backend engineers to build core infrastructure, you should be entirely comfortable navigating backend code to understand and debug data flows, trace API endpoints, and collaborate effectively across the stack.

Backend Confidence: A strong ability to collaborate with backend teams - you should be comfortable navigating codebases in Go, C++, or Python and understanding data structures to trace data flows and unblock frontend integration tasks.

Fremont, CA30+ days ago

Partner with infrastructure and logistics teams to understand operational requirements and identify opportunities for robotics and automation to improve efficiency and safety Translate customer and operational needs into actionable product requirements and technical specifications.

Hands-on experience with large-scale automation systems, including relevant workflows, automation analysis software (for simulating factories, automating processes, and analyzing manufacturing workflows), and direct AGV experience is expected.

Mountain View, California30+ days ago

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Lead root-cause investigations for complex integration issues, using data-driven techniques and principled experimentation, proactively creating test plans for new features and defining useful metrics for analyzing performance . Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.

Mountain View, California30+ days ago

You will define the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for vehicle dynamics and controls software, drive design quality from architecture through validation, and align multiple teams to ship reliable, scalable autonomy capabilities that meet company goals.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

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Technical Strategy: Collaborate closely with Partnerships to identify new customer sites that align with our product roadmap and provide technical feedback to our engineering team to influence the next generation of Bedrock systems. Backed by $350M in funding, we're working quickly to close the gap between Americas surging demand for housing, data centers, manufacturing hubs, and the construction industrys growing labor shortage.

San Francisco, California21 days ago

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We began by revolutionizing plasmid sequencing, making it exponentially cheaper and faster, with innovative sequencing technologies and a global network of laboratories that turn samples into answers in hours, not weeks. style="min-height:1.5em">Your responsibilities will span:

Writing production-quality Python code to control our robotic platforms, integrating with various lab instruments.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training.

As a founding member of our Engineering team, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying the AI and software infrastructure for our autonomous robotics systems.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

p>What you will be doing:

Design and maintain teleoperation software for controlling humanoid robots with low latency and high precision;
Develop and optimize the control stack, including locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control algorithms;
Deploy and evaluate neural network models in physics simulation and on real humanoid hardware;
Implement tools and processes for regular robot maintenance, diagnostics, and troubleshooting to ensure system reliability;
Monitor teleoperators at the lab and develop quality assurance workflows to ensure high-quality data collection;
Collaborate with researchers on model training, data processing, and the full MLOps lifecycle.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Master's or PhD's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field;
- Experience at autonomous driving or humanoid robotics companies on real hardware deployment;
- Experience in robot hardware design;
- Demonstrated Tech Lead experience, coordinating a team of robotics engineers and driving projects from conception to deployment as well as contributions to popular open-source robotics frameworks or research publications in top-tier conferences, such as ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$158,000–$241,900 Per Year

B.S. with strong work experience in the field may be considered • 3+ years of experience in motion planning or related field • Deep understanding of optimal controls and trajectory optimization algorithms • Good grasp of classical and modern feedback control theory and techniques • Solid understanding of vehicle dynamics • A demonstrated track record of building high quality autonomous software systems • Deep expertise in Planning and Controls system design • Experience with C++/Python in a large, distributed development environment • Strong organizational and communication skills • Passion for self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world. • Lead root-cause investigations for complex integration issues, using data-driven techniques and principled experimentation, proactively creating test plans for new features and defining useful metrics for analyzing performance.

San Mateo, California30+ days ago

$170,000–$240,000 Per Year

The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios, and beyond.

We are looking for a software engineer to build and evolve the core of the Skydio Simulator — a high-fidelity, real-time digital replica of the physical world used both by customers and by Skydio’s autonomy engineers every day.

Cupertino, CA30+ days ago

$90,000–$150,000 Per Year

You must be familiar with assembling, performing testing QA of the solutions, including final deployment environments, capable testing robots that go from point A to point B, know the mechanics, how the different parts are connected, and how to operate using the software. Tasks include the ability to debug the deployed solutions, perform the QA and assist with debugging issues.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

$124,000–$171,000 Per Year

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Redwood City, CA23 days ago

$176,000–$196,000 Per Year

You'll work across the stack: extending the core engine with new robot behavior capabilities, designing scalable APIs that customers actually want to use, building cloud integrations for remote customization, and developing AI integrations that let us configure behavior through natural language.

As a Robotics Software Engineer II on the Mission Behavior team, you'll build the engine that lets us rapidly customize robot behavior for new use cases-turning our robots from one-off solutions into a true platform.

Cupertino, CA30+ days ago

$150,000–$155,000 Per Year

You must be familiar with assembling, performing testing QA of the solutions, including final deployment environments, capable testing robots that go from point A to point B, know the mechanics, how the different parts are connected, and how to operate using the software. By providing your phone number, you consent to: (1) receive automated text messages and calls from the Judge Group, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively "Judge") to such phone number regarding job opportunities, your job application, and for other related purposes.

Cupertino, CA30+ days ago

You must be familiar with assembling, performing testing QA of the solutions, including final deployment environments, capable testing robots that go from point A to point B, know the mechanics, how the different parts are connected, and how to operate using the software. Tasks include the ability to debug the deployed solutions, perform the QA and assist with debugging issues.

San Mateo20 days ago

p>We are looking for a Robotics Engineer specializing in Deployment & Testing to help further the performance and capabilities of Skild AI’s world-class high-level software and products through formalized, rigorous testing.

Collaborate closely with robotic software developers and machine learning engineers and provide feedback on what needs to be improved to produce and sustain a top-quality product that meets customer expectations.

San Mateo20 days ago

We believe massive scale through data-driven machine learning is the key to unlocking these capabilities for the widespread deployment of robots within society.

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Mountain View, CA7 days ago

p>We are always focused on advancing the in all areas of general purpose robotics, including agentic reasoning, real world understanding, action generalization, human robot interaction, dexterity, whole-body-control, continual learning, and more. These models include Gemini Robotics (our most advanced Gemini model for the physical world), and Gemini Robotics On-Device (our fastest Gemini model that runs without a data network).

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$197,800–$271,975 Per Year

p>For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in digitized factories, mobility, and digital healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world.

Mountain View, California27 days ago

The team formulates and solves online optimization problems that balance kinematic feasibility, collision avoidance, and ride comfort, and plays a central role in delivering safe, comfortable vehicle behavior through the Local Planner Controller and related guardrails systems.

Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience, or PhD, in Robotics, Controls, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$170,000–$240,000 Per Year

About the Role:

We are looking for a software engineer to build and evolve the core of the Skydio Simulator - a high-fidelity, real-time digital replica of the physical world used both by customers and by Skydio's autonomy engineers every day.

Union City, CA30+ days ago

$160,000–$250,000 Per Year

li>Debug complex autonomy issues end-to-end: Investigate perception-driven autonomy failures, reproduce field issues, analyze logs and sensor data, and collaborate across robotics disciplines to identify root causes.

Improve perception performance in real-world conditions: Address noise, occlusion, sensor uncertainty, edge cases, dynamic obstacles, reflective surfaces, lighting variation, and other challenges common in warehouse and industrial environments.

San Francisco, CA30 days ago

$160,000–$190,000 Per Year

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Operations, to build end-to-end inspection solutions that deliver consistent, accurate results under real-world factory conditions. You will work across the full pipeline-from algorithm development to production deployment-helping turn prototype inspection capabilities into reliable, high-throughput features that operate at scale across our automation lines.

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