Remote Medical Robotics Engineer — Controls & Validation

Rex.zone; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 41,328 - 68,880; Full time

Job summary

Rex.zone is seeking a Medical Robotics Engineer (Remote) to design, implement, and validate robotic systems used in surgery and hospital automation. This role emphasizes safety, verification, and regulatory alignment, with focus on ROS, C++, Python, and real-time software.

The position supports distributed design reviews and cross-functional collaboration with mechanical and electrical teams, while ensuring traceability and audit-ready documentation for ISO standards.

Qualifications

• Mid-Senior experience in robotics, mechatronics, or related engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in control systems, kinematics/dynamics, and numerical methods.
• Hands-on software development in C++ and Python.
• System integration and debugging across software/firmware/mechanics.
• Comfort with testing, measurement, and calibration workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robotics control and motion planning (kinematics, dynamics, trajectory generation).
• Integrate sensors (encoders, IMUs, force/torque, cameras) and apply sensor fusion for state estimation.
• Develop and maintain C++/Python modules (ROS/ROS2 where applicable) with real-time considerations.
• Collaborate with mechanical/electrical teams on calibration, bring-up, and system integration.
• Plan and execute verification & validation (unit, integration, and system-level protocols and reports).
• Contribute to risk management (hazard analysis, mitigations, traceability) and safety-related design reviews.

Skills

Robotics

Control systems

C++

Python

System integration

Testing/calibration

ROS/ROS2

Embedded Linux

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Embedded Linux

Job description

Rex.zone is seeking a Medical Robotics Engineer (Remote) to design, implement, and validate robotic systems used in surgery and hospital automation. This role emphasizes safety, verification, and regulatory alignment, with focus on ROS, C++, Python, and real-time software.

The position supports distributed design reviews and cross-functional collaboration with mechanical and electrical teams, while ensuring traceability and audit-ready documentation for ISO standards.