Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Provides technical leadership for designing, integrating, validating, and deploying robotic automation systems for data center operations. Leads transition of robotics concepts from R&D to production, coordinates internal and external partners, guides verification and validation, troubleshoots full-stack systems, and develops scalable software, hardware, and fleet-management capabilities. The role also mentors engineers, influences technical direction, evaluates emerging technologies, and supports deployment across partner and manufacturing sites.

As a Technical Lead, you will provide leadership in vehicle dynamics and controls systems, leading software engineering practices, mentoring engineers, and defining technical visions for GMs Super Cruise system.

Design, build, and integrate software for autonomous robots across sensor integration, motion planning, perception, control, and behavioral systems. The role requires production robotics experience, real-time and concurrent systems debugging, simulation, sensor fusion, field testing, and hardware integration. The engineer will collaborate cross-functionally, translate ambiguous requirements into robust solutions, conduct code and design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and deliver production-quality software.

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.

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.

Implement real-time motion control for an autonomous turret: convert vision outputs into precise, safe actuation via control loops, calibration, coordinate transforms, and motion safety constraints. Optimize low-latency performance and define robust software/hardware actuation contracts.

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.

Develop production robotics software for trajectory execution, task sequencing, hardware coordination, autonomy behaviors, fault recovery, and system integration. Diagnose deployed robot issues using telemetry, logs, simulation, and physical testing. Improve cycle time and reliability while integrating motion planning with controllers, sensors, end effectors, conveyors, and safety systems. Collaborate across perception, controls, hardware, testing, and deployment teams.

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.

Lead end-to-end robotics service and support operations across the US. Troubleshoot hardware and software issues on industrial robotic machinery, debug Python code, work with PLCs and machine communication protocols, and document bugs and field requirements for European engineering teams. Build customer relationships, manage escalations independently, and drive product and service improvements through field insights.

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.

Lead onsite discovery, design, integration, programming, and commissioning of industrial robotics cells for enterprise distribution centers. Own robot motion, palletizing and sortation logic, functional safety, controls interfaces, vision-to-motion workflows, failure recovery, operator interfaces, testing, documentation, and customer handoff. Collaborate directly with distribution, engineering, IT, maintenance, and EHS stakeholders while converting customer-specific solutions into reusable platform capabilities.

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.

The Senior Robotics Engineer will lead perception and sensor fusion projects, implement localization methods, and integrate multi-modal sensors for autonomous robotics in warehouse automation.

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.

Design, develop, test, and deliver control algorithms and software for autonomous mobile robots performing navigation, localization, manipulation, and case handling. Collaborate with robotics, software, product, and engineering teams; troubleshoot production issues; improve reliability, testability, and system performance; and support successful customer deployments.

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

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.

Lead evaluation, design, prototyping, and integration of robotic manipulation and automation for autonomous vehicle operations in logistics yards. Champion vendor selection, system architecture, perception, motion planning, controls, and field validation to enable safety-critical tasks like automated trailer coupling.

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