Senior Robotics Research Engineer — Hybrid Lab

Arm Limited; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 198,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Arm Limited in Austin invites applications for a Staff Robotics Research Engineer to advance hands-on, cross-disciplinary robotics research. You will develop novel methods, implement on real robotic platforms, and collaborate with researchers across disciplines to build and evaluate complete robotic systems.

The role emphasizes publishing impactful research across robotics, AI, and systems, driving architectures that power future Arm technologies for Physical AI.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Strong research expertise in at least one area relevant to intelligent robotic systems.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate and solve open-ended research problems.
• Experience implementing and evaluating algorithms on robotic systems or high-fidelity simulation.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or Python.
• Ability to work across disciplinary boundaries and integrate research into larger robotic systems.
• Strong publication record or equivalent evidence of research impact.
• Ability to independently drive research projects and influence technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Conduct original research in robotics areas such as machine learning, perception, planning, control, optimization, safety, or mechatronics.
• Develop new methods for enabling intelligent robots to perceive, reason, plan, learn, and act in real-world environments.
• Explore how robotic capabilities can be composed into coherent, hierarchical systems.
• Investigate architectures for combining classical robotics with learning-based methods and foundation models.
• Build, integrate, and evaluate research prototypes on real robots and in simulation.
• Collaborate across ML, perception, planning, control, systems, and compute architecture researchers.
• Identify system-level bottlenecks and translate insights into requirements for future compute/software platforms.
• Publish research at leading venues and engage with the research community.
• Help define new research directions and contribute to Arm’s Robotics Research Lab roadmap.
• Collaborate across Arm and with external partners.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics research

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Research publication

System integration

Education

PhD or equivalent in Robotics/CS/EE/ME/ML

Tools

Simulation platforms

Job description

Arm Limited in Austin invites applications for a Staff Robotics Research Engineer to advance hands-on, cross-disciplinary robotics research. You will develop novel methods, implement on real robotic platforms, and collaborate with researchers across disciplines to build and evaluate complete robotic systems.

The role emphasizes publishing impactful research across robotics, AI, and systems, driving architectures that power future Arm technologies for Physical AI.