Robotics Engineer — Remote, Real-World Systems Builder

Metacognition; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working

Collaborative startup environment

Job summary

Metacognition is seeking a Robotics Engineer to build and maintain robotics platforms, software stack and simulation infrastructure for translating research into real-world systems. You will work closely with science and engineering teams to deploy and validate autonomous agents on real hardware, combining software engineering with hands-on robotics experience.

The role emphasizes collaboration, safety, and reliability as you develop data pipelines, perception and planning capabilities for

Qualifications

• Degree in robotics or related field.
• Strong software in C/C++ and Python for real-time systems.
• Hands-on experience building, integrating and debugging robotic systems on real hardware with ROS/ROS 2.
• Solid grounding in core robotics including kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning and perception.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain robotic platforms ( manipulators and mobile robots ), including sensor integration, calibration and actuator control.
• Develop and maintain the robotics software stack, including perception, state estimation, motion planning and control.
• Build simulation environments and sim-to-real pipelines for training and evaluating agents.
• Deploy and optimize learned models on robot hardware with attention to latency, safety and reliability.
• Develop data collection infrastructure, including teleoperation and logging, to generate high-quality datasets for research.
• Work with research scientists and ML engineers to turn research ideas into demonstrators.
• Establish testing, safety and lab practices for operating robots alongside people.
• Contribute to a rigorous and supportive engineering culture, sharing knowledge with colleagues.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in robotics, mechatronics, EE, CS

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Gazebo/Isaac Sim/MuJoCo

Job description

Metacognition is seeking a Robotics Engineer to build and maintain robotics platforms, software stack and simulation infrastructure for translating research into real-world systems. You will work closely with science and engineering teams to deploy and validate autonomous agents on real hardware, combining software engineering with hands-on robotics experience.

The role emphasizes collaboration, safety, and reliability as you develop data pipelines, perception and planning capabilities for