Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Design and lead development of robotics software foundations connecting sensing, planning, control, actuation, middleware, operating systems, and hardware accelerators. Build APIs, SDKs, diagnostics, testing workflows, and production-ready reference platforms for Arm-powered devices. Optimize real-time performance, reliability, safety, and resource usage while mentoring engineers and collaborating across robotics, AI, hardware, product, and customer teams.

Develop and deploy reinforcement learning and imitation learning policies for whole-body humanoid locomotion and manipulation. Build high-fidelity simulation environments, improve sim-to-real transfer, conduct experiments, evaluate models, write reusable code, contribute to publications, and deliver policies to production customer sites. The role spans robotics research, computer vision, model development, and end-to-end deployment.

Design and build software and hardware for robotic teleoperation and large-scale data collection. Develop electromechanical devices, operator interfaces, backend processing, data-quality metrics, augmentation pipelines, and adaptation systems for robot learning. Work across robot arms and mobile manipulators, modern sensing hardware, robotics middleware, and manipulation policies. Collaborate with teleoperators, research teams, and customers to move robotic capabilities from prototypes into deployed products.

Develop production-grade robotic manipulation systems spanning foundation models, reinforcement learning, simulation, synthetic data, and real hardware. Train, adapt, evaluate, and deploy vision-language-action and related policies across robotic arms, mobile manipulators, and humanoids. Build scalable data and software pipelines, conduct end-to-end experiments, contribute to research publications and open source, and collaborate with customers to deploy manipulation capabilities.

Design, prototype, test, and troubleshoot mechanical systems for autonomous agricultural weeding robots. The engineer will own mission-critical vehicle systems, solve field issues, build durable designs, and collaborate across disciplines in a fast-paced startup environment. Designs must withstand challenging farm conditions and reach production quickly.

The Senior Robotics Engineer will develop advanced robotics systems for agriculture, collaborating on design, testing, and research to enhance autonomous technology.

Build realistic simulation environments, tools, and infrastructure for autonomous boats, drones, ground vehicles, and multi-agent systems. Develop configurable scenarios, sensor models, agent behaviors, closed-loop SIL and HIL workflows, replay and regression testing, and automated scenario evaluation. Integrate simulations with autonomy stacks, mission software, command-and-control systems, and data pipelines. Improve simulation scalability, fidelity, debugging, and developer workflows while helping engineering teams reproduce field failures and validate systems before deployment.

Seeking Robotics Engineers to integrate technology onto hardware and manage customer deployments, optimizing AI models for robotics with cross-functional collaboration.

As a Robotics Engineer, you'll operate and test robot platforms, integrate sensors, manage data pipelines, and debug issues to improve model evaluation.

Own the technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap for an autonomous construction robotics stack spanning localization, planning, controls, and safeguarding. Make build-versus-reuse-versus-buy decisions, design safety systems, guide integration and field validation, establish shared technical foundations across autonomy programs, and mentor engineers. The role requires architecting and shipping production autonomous systems, strong compiled-language software skills, broad systems judgment, and 10+ years of relevant experience.

Own the architecture and technical direction of autonomy and vehicle software for autonomous underwater vehicles. Lead cross-disciplinary robotics challenges spanning onboard software, GNC, state estimation, sensing, fault management, testing, field operations, and fleet-scale deployment. Improve unattended mission reliability through FDIR, safe-state behaviors, telemetry, logging, sensor synchronization, OTA updates, and rollback. Mentor engineers, establish quality standards, manage the roadmap, support on-call operations, and drive practical AI adoption.

Design methods and tools for robotic systems, adapt machine learning to robotics, and work with simulation platforms while contributing to experiments and publications.

Deploy, develop and implement AI-powered robotics systems on farms, collaborating with farmers and sales teams to solve real-world problems.

Design, program, integrate, and deploy industrial robotic solutions (palletizing, picking, goods-to-person) for fulfillment and manufacturing. Work includes robot programming, systems integration with conveyors and vision, simulation, commissioning troubleshooting, cycle-time optimization, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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.

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 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.

Develop and implement vehicle control architecture and real-time control systems for industrial mobile equipment using ROS2 and embedded controllers. Implement ros2_control interfaces, firmware/drivers for CAN-FD/I2C/SPI/UART/RS485, design and tune closed-loop controllers (PID/MPC/LQR), integrate sensors for state estimation, and model/control electro-hydraulic systems.

Develop on-vehicle and simulation software across the autonomy stack: planning behaviors, sensor and payload integration, embedded/vehicle platforms, realistic UxS simulation, and electronics prototyping. Ensure reliable, testable code and support onsite test/integration events (up to 25% travel).

Design, test, and optimize electromechanical systems and motor designs. Develop and tune motor control firmware (FOC) for BLDC motors, specify harmonic drives and gearboxes, and collaborate with mechanical engineers on joint and thermal management.

Process high-resolution tactile and force-torque data, implement slip-detection and compliant control, train multi-fingered multi-finger grasping policies for unknown objects, integrate tactile sensing into robotic platforms, and conduct experiments to validate tactile perception and dexterous manipulation.