Robotics Engineer

Strive Robotics; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Strive Robotics in Somerville, MA seeks an early-career engineer to build robots for real manufacturing work. You will contribute to manipulation, controls, perception, planning, and AI-assisted robotics development while working directly with hardware.

You will integrate sensors, end-effectors, robots, and equipment into complete systems; design experiments, analyze failures, and improve repeatability. You will prototype capabilities using AI tools to accelerate iteration and deliver reliable

Qualifications

• Hands-on robotics work through projects, coursework, or experience.
• Ability to design useful experiments and debug interactions among software, electronics, mechanics, sensors, and environment.
• Curiosity, good experimental habits, and willingness to own ambiguous technical problems.
• Applicants should indicate the kinds of systems they want to own and develop.

Responsibilities

• Integrate sensors, end-effectors, robots, and equipment into complete systems.
• Design experiments, analyze failures, and improve repeatability and recovery behavior of robot workflows.
• Prototype new capabilities using AI-assisted tools to accelerate iteration.

Skills

Hands-on robotics

Experiment design

Systems debugging

Ownership mindset

Tools

Sensors

End-effectors

AI models

Job description

We are looking for an early-career engineer who wants to build robots that perform real manufacturing work. You will contribute to manipulation, controls, perception, planning, and AI-assisted robotics development while working directly with hardware.

What you may work on:

• Integrate sensors, end-effectors, robots, and manufacturing equipment into complete working systems.
• Design and run experiments, analyze failures, and improve the repeatability and recovery behavior of robot workflows.
• Use AI models and development tools to prototype new capabilities, automate supporting work, and accelerate iteration.

What we are looking for:

• Evidence of hands-on robotics work through projects, research, coursework, open-source contributions, professional experience, or independent builds.
• The ability to design useful experiments and debug interactions among software, electronics, mechanics, sensors, and the physical environment.
• Curiosity, good experimental habits, and a willingness to take ownership of ambiguous technical problems.
• Applicants should indicate the kinds of systems they want to own and develop.

Who this is for:

Early-career engineers with hands-on robotics experience, strong experimental habits, and the curiosity to own ambiguous technical problems.

About Strive:

Strive Robotics is an AI systems integrator for manufacturing. We build robots and software that let customers deploy and reconfigure robotic workflows without outside integrators or robotics experience. Our approach combines classical controls, model-based perception, and fine-tuned vision-language-action models, choosing the tools that get reliable robotic solutions into customers’ hands as quickly as possible.