Field Robotics Autonomy Engineer

FieldAI; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Experience deploying mission-critical/

Jira/Wrike/Confluence experience

Customer-facing experience

Excellent communication skills

Travel and on-site with customers

Job summary

FieldAI's Irvine team is at the forefront of embodied AI and robotics deployments, building risk-aware, field-ready AI systems that solve hard problems in robotics. This role focuses on testing, deployment, and integration of wheeled robotic platforms across federal and commercial programs.

You’ll own deployment, integration, and ongoing performance in the field, working with customers and internal teams to rapidly improve reliability and drive adoption of mission-critical systems from day one.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in software engineering across the full program lifecycle, with a focus on early-stage system design and development.
• Experience/Familiarity with robotics middleware such as ROS / ROS 2 or similar distributed robotics software systems.
• Experience/Familiarity with distributed systems (multiple nodes, real-time comms).
• Experience/Familiarity with embedded systems (C/C++ on constrained hardware).
• Ability to work effectively across adjacent domains, including software, electronics, networking, and mechanical interfaces.
• Proven track record managing complex programs with multiple dependencies in agile/hybrid frameworks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to executives and diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical capabilities, with experience in financial modeling, ROI analysis, and tracking KPIs.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments; proactive, adaptable, resilient.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic integration, debugging, and rapid capability development while providing essential software support.
• Build robust utilities and tools to facilitate integration and automated testing for system software builds.
• Provide high-level technical expertise and analytical insights to advance the development of robust software architectures.

Skills

Software engineering lifecycle

Robotics middleware ROS/ROS 2

Distributed systems

Embedded systems (C/C++)

Cross-domain collaboration

Agile/hybrid governance

Executive communication

Analytics / ROI analysis

Education

PhD in Robotics, CS, EE, or related field

MS in related field with 2+ years industry/research

Tools

Jira or Wrike or Confluence

Job description

FieldAI's Irvine team is at the forefront of embodied AI and robotics deployments, building risk-aware, field-ready AI systems that solve hard problems in robotics. This role focuses on testing, deployment, and integration of wheeled robotic platforms across federal and commercial programs.

You’ll own deployment, integration, and ongoing performance in the field, working with customers and internal teams to rapidly improve reliability and drive adoption of mission-critical systems from day one.