Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Lead design, integration, validation, and deployment of data-center robotics and automation systems. Define technical direction, mentor partners, drive verification/validation (simulation, HIL, FAT/SAT), debug hardware/software/PLC stacks, and transition R&D prototypes into production-ready, scalable robotic solutions.

Write automated integration, contract, and ICD conformance tests (pytest) for Apollo, run and maintain HIL test suites, investigate defects with senior engineers, convert escapes into regression tests, triage flaky tests, and collaborate with firmware/stack engineers to verify software-hardware behavior and improve RSIT tooling.

Design and deploy vision and robotics systems for automated wire-harness production. Build perception pipelines (classical CV and/or ML), perform camera/hand-eye calibration, develop and tune robot motion for pick/place, routing, insertion, and termination, and deploy and harden systems on the production floor. Collaborate with mechanical, controls, and production teams to improve cycle time, yield, and reliability.

Develop and improve motion planning and autonomy modules (grasp planning, trajectory generation, collision avoidance, behavior trees) for deployed warehouse unloading robots. Debug production systems, write automated tests, and integrate with perception, hardware, and operations to increase pick success and reduce cycle time.

Design and implement geometric path planners and time-optimal, jerk-limited trajectory optimizers for high-DOF manipulators. Integrate perception into collision-aware planning, validate on hardware, and optimize cycle-time in constrained container environments using MoveIt/ros_control and motion-planning frameworks.

The role involves designing automated manufacturing lines, architecting control systems, PLC programming, integrating robotics, and ensuring safety standards in nuclear reactor production.

The Senior Robotics Engineer will design and implement control systems for aerial defense platforms, requiring expertise in embedded systems, programming, and sensor data integration.

The Robotics Lead will design and implement control systems for drone technology, focusing on motion engineering and high-bandwidth control loops.

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

Design and implement perception systems for automated heavy machinery: integrate and calibrate advanced sensors, build real-time image/point-cloud processing and fusion pipelines, develop object-detection and ML models, support simulation/visualization, and lead sensor integration, testing, and cross-functional teams to enable collision avoidance, localization, and motion planning.

Design and implement firmware and low-level embedded software for robotics. Perform platform bringup, driver development, sensor integration, calibration, and testing. Lead interdisciplinary teams, mentor hires, and help shape testing frameworks, toolchains, and CI/CD practices for production and prototype systems.

Lead motion planning and trajectory optimization for a high-DOF manipulator, turning planned paths into time-optimal, dynamically feasible, safe trajectories. Own path planning architecture, integrate perception, validate performance in simulation and hardware, define metrics, benchmark approaches, and mentor engineers to improve cycle time and reliability.

Develop and optimize backend application logic, automation nodes, and orchestration workflows in Python. Collaborate with international teams, provide Level 3 technical support, and troubleshoot deployments on robotic hardware. Bridge software and hardware, prototype/test sensor integrations and robot arm workflows, and maintain code quality through testing, code reviews, and CI/CD.

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.

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

Design, develop, and integrate mechanical and robotic systems for semiconductor equipment. Lead system-level analyses, testing, qualification, troubleshooting, and supplier/OEM management. Ensure product quality and reliability across lifecycle, build test stands, develop testing software, and support system integration in manufacturing and cleanroom environments.

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

Work with AMHS, AMRs, AGVs and robotic systems to select, install, maintain, and improve semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Design custom automation solutions, increase uptime through preventative maintenance and reliability programs, support repair/process teams, and align with Smart Manufacturing initiatives to optimize factory operations.

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.

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 and engineer robot controls for data-center robotics: motion, safety, and facility integration. Own control-stack integration (fleet management, dispatch, telemetry), design safety architecture, commission and debug systems on-site, and meet availability targets.

Own reliability across vehicle and cloud stacks for AUV operations: onboard Jetson/ROS2 compute, topside systems, cloud ingestion/processing and customer platform. Build automation, observability, runbooks, and self-recovery to reduce on-call toil; manage AWS infrastructure, IaC, container orchestration, and reliability targets. Participate in shared 12-hour on-call shifts and field deployments, mentor team on operational excellence.

Design and deploy real-time state estimation, sensor fusion, motion/trajectory planning, and control algorithms for multi-ton robotic construction platforms. Own C++/Python and MCU firmware codebases, build simulations and HIL setups, integrate and calibrate sensors (IMU, RTK-GPS, LiDAR, cameras, encoders), and iterate through field deployment and validation.