Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design and implement robotic automation and controls systems for aerospace manufacturing, including welding, fabrication, material handling, and inspection applications. Support production robots through simulation, offline programming, and deployment. Architect factory automation solutions that improve speed, quality, reliability, and efficiency. Develop industrial safety systems, assess technical risks, create electrical and pneumatics schematics, and collaborate with mechanical, manufacturing, and design engineers.

Develop production robotics perception software for manufacturing environments. Responsibilities include 3D geometry reconstruction, segmentation, inspection, active perception, viewpoint planning, multi-sensor fusion, GPU acceleration, hardware-software integration, debugging, and deployment support. The role works directly with physical robots and sensors, assists application teams with proofs of concept and deployments, and travels to customer sites for system-level troubleshooting.

Design, implement, and optimize robot task and motion planning algorithms and integrate computer vision for industrial robotic systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to test, document, and deploy software using ROS/MoveIt, CI/CD, and containerization, while following software development best practices.

Lead the architecture and hands-on development of manipulation systems for physical insectoid robots. Design contact-rich behaviors, planning, learned-policy integration, force control, monitoring, recovery, and real-time execution in C++ and Python. Establish experiments, metrics, regression tests, and failure-analysis processes that improve repeated physical-task performance. Mentor engineers, lead cross-stack reviews, and make technical decisions across sensing, control, actuation, interfaces, and mechanical constraints.

Build and maintain robotics software for simulation and real robotic arm hardware across motion planning, control, perception, and manipulation. Prototype ideas, harden successful systems for deployment, and develop tests and metrics to measure robot performance and prevent regressions. The role requires ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and practical expertise in robotics software development.

The role involves developing algorithms for robotic task and motion planning, collaborating with engineers, and enhancing software solutions for robotics systems.

Design, implement, and optimize robotics and machine-control software for industrial additive manufacturing and automated production. Build real-time, reliable control systems integrating robots, sensors, vision, PLCs, and factory equipment. Lead architecture, troubleshoot integrations, improve throughput and uptime, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deploy production-ready automation solutions.

Develop and optimize robotics task and motion planning and computer vision software. Implement algorithms for symbolic task planning, kinematics, collision detection, optimization, and constraint satisfaction. Integrate and test planning and vision components, maintain development best practices, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust robotic software.

Own the architecture and integration of onboard sensing, compute, communications, power, data interfaces, timing, calibration, and software pathways for autonomous insectoid robots. Select and integrate sensors, embedded boards, compute modules, harnesses, and middleware; define interface contracts; characterize timing and latency; and diagnose hardware-software faults involving communications, power, thermal behavior, calibration, and mechanical alignment. Write C++ or Python integration code and maintain compatibility and calibration records.

Build, configure, test, troubleshoot, and improve Flippy robotic systems. Develop system-level verification, validation, regression, and reliability tests; create Python automation tools; diagnose hardware and software failures; analyze data and identify root causes. Support prototype development, system integration, and occasional customer deployments. The role combines hands-on assembly, physical testing, software and QA automation, and field support in an on-site Pasadena environment.

Provides advanced technical support for robotic systems during commissioning and 24/7 customer operations. Diagnoses hardware, software, controls, Linux, network, and automation failures; analyzes logs and telemetry; develops integrations and support workflows; leads major incidents; coordinates engineering, field service, and customer teams; manages cases and corrective actions; validates AI-assisted diagnostics; and mentors engineers while improving system reliability and recovery times.

The Robotics Engineer will design, configure, troubleshoot robotic systems and support electrical/software design, ensuring compliance with safety standards and optimizing production processes.

Designs and integrates electrical and mechanical systems for humanoid robots, including PCB development, new robot form factors, rapid prototyping, deployment, and troubleshooting. The role requires hands-on experience with robotics, embedded systems, Linux and ROS 2, CAD and ECAD tools, electronics testing equipment, actuators, CAN bus, batteries, industrial requirements, component sourcing, and vendor coordination.

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

Develop and deploy robotics software for intelligent manufacturing automation. Build internal tools, dashboards, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and production workflow features. Collaborate with operations, program management, and quality teams, write tested code, participate in reviews, and contribute to architecture and risk assessment. The role involves real production systems supporting aerospace and defense manufacturing and requires on-site work in Los Angeles.

Develop, deploy, test, and support software for high-DOF robotic manufacturing systems used in government projects. Build algorithms for planning, learning, perception, and control; execute proofs of concept; prototype sensors, tools, and processes; and collaborate with systems, applications, and robotics software engineers. Maintain deployed software, rapidly iterate on the software stack, evaluate emerging robotics technologies, and transition R&D prototypes into production code.

Develop robotics and embedded software in C++ and Python using ROS and PX4. Integrate sensors, actuators, and communications interfaces; improve control, navigation, and autonomy; troubleshoot hardware and software; and validate systems through simulation, bench testing, and field trials. Collaborate on design, code reviews, documentation, and feature deployment. The role requires robotics, Linux, embedded systems, hardware integration, and collaborative development experience.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux. Owns platform components through deployment and fleet operation, improves reliability and performance, diagnoses complex concurrency and systems issues, and translates safety requirements into software behavior and verification. Collaborates across autonomy, systems, hardware, and software teams while leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

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

Develop and maintain real-time kinematics algorithms and a shared kinematics library for 6+ DoF robotic systems, own calibration tools/methodologies using industrial metrology, and serve as the SME for kinematics, motion modeling, and multi-axis synchronization across robotics products.

Design, implement, and maintain high-performance kinematics algorithms and a shared kinematics library for 6+ DoF robotic systems. Develop calibration tools and methodologies using industrial metrology and localization hardware. Act as SME for robot kinematics, motion modeling, and multi-axis synchronization while owning projects from design through deployment in a cross-functional R&D manufacturing environment.

Develop and deploy motion-control systems for 6-DOF robotic arms used in commercial kitchens. Responsibilities include kinematic and dynamic modeling, trajectory generation, control-loop tuning, sensor and perception integration, real-time software development, simulation, hardware testing, calibration, safety mechanisms, fault recovery, and performance optimization. The engineer will collaborate across disciplines, validate systems on physical robots, support field deployments, and improve reliability in demanding restaurant environments.

The Robotics Engineer will design, develop, and implement robotic solutions, manage projects from concept to completion, and work closely with the founder. Responsibilities include prototyping, interface with suppliers, and machine assembly.

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.

Lead development, maintenance, and production-readiness of an end-to-end robotic workforce: robot and teleoperation design, control systems, fleet control and navigation optimization, hardware-software integration, sensor data pipelines, and delivery of production systems while mentoring and unblocking the team.