Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design, integrate, and optimize robotic control systems for additive manufacturing. Lead device development, commission EtherCAT/TwinCAT/TwinSAFE networks, configure Kuka robots, calibrate robot cells, design low-voltage enclosures, and support production and R&D automation troubleshooting and validation.

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.

Designs and integrates six-axis robotic manufacturing cells for government projects, including robot transporters, motion systems, end-of-arm tooling, CAD assemblies, manufacturing drawings, and structural validation. The role owns designs from customer requirements through deployment, selects components, maintains BOMs in PDM, manages suppliers and machine shops, ensures safety-standard compliance, prototypes hardware, mentors engineers, and supports customer-site validation.

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.

The Robotics Engineer will implement and support smart robotic assistants, design robotic cells, and enhance customer success through technical solutions and collaborations.

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.

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 software for robotic platforms, motion-control systems, sensing systems, embedded interfaces, test environments, and production tools. Integrate software with motors, sensors, actuators, controllers, and industrial networks. Support simulation, hardware bring-up, integration, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and production operations while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams.

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.

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.

The Robotics & AI Systems Development Engineer II develops robotic systems and AI solutions for manufacturing, focusing on autonomy, fleet management, and system integration.

Develop real-time perception and sensor-fusion software for autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles. Responsibilities include processing lidar, camera, IMU, and GPS data; implementing computer vision, state estimation, calibration, tracking, and optimization algorithms; validating systems in simulation and field deployments; supporting ruggedized sensor hardware; and collaborating across ML, firmware, embedded, and systems engineering teams.

Design, implement, optimize, and verify real-time robot controls software for an AI-driven surgical robotics platform. Responsibilities include deterministic data transfer, latency and jitter reduction, DDS and network QoS optimization, performance profiling, hardware and virtual testing, observability, integration, code reviews, and collaboration with controls, electrical, mechanical, and product teams.

As a Robotics Software Engineer, you will develop software solutions for robotics in the cannabis industry, collaborate with engineers, and ensure effective communication to meet business needs.

The role involves developing and testing software for lunar rover localization, requiring expertise in non-GPS techniques and working with real robots.

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, 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, 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.

Develop and integrate software for robotic systems, including hardware interfaces, motor and sensor integration, automated testing, diagnostics, reliability improvements, and failure analysis. Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, field, and software engineers to support robot deployments, manufacturing, research, and development.