Senior Robotics Systems Engineer: Deployable AI Robots

RoboForce; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options/equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

RoboForce seeks a Senior Robotics Systems Engineer to drive the core platform for perception, planning, control, and autonomous operation. You will bridge high-level software with sensors, actuators, and embedded controllers to turn prototypes into reliable production robots.

You will collaborate five days a week in-office with the team, tackling complex system integration and field deployment across demanding environments. Advanced robotics and real-time systems expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on robotics experience in industry, academia, or research labs, with a track record of building, integrating, and deploying real robotic systems.
• Experience developing drivers, hardware abstraction layers, or software interfaces for sensors, actuators, or embedded devices.
• Hands-on experience with ROS/ROS2, real-time or embedded Linux, fieldbus or device communications, distributed middleware, sensor/actuator integration, and performance optimization.
• Ability to design and troubleshoot basic electrical circuits and mechanical components for robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Design software interfaces between high-level robot applications and low-level sensors, actuators, embedded controllers, and communication buses.
• Design and integrate mechatronic systems, mechanisms, and test fixtures; develop, troubleshoot, and improve electrical subsystems and interfaces.
• Integrate and debug complex robotic systems spanning software, embedded, networking, electrical, and mechanical domains.
• Diagnose performance, reliability, timing, and hardware-interface issues across the robot stack.
• Drive system reliability and scalability through rigorous testing and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Robotics systems

System integration

Debugging

Root-cause analysis

Electrical circuit design

Mechanical component design

ROS/ROS2

Real-time Linux

Embedded Linux

Fieldbus

Education

BS/MS in Robotics or related field

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Real-time Linux

Embedded Linux

Fieldbus/Device communications

Job description

RoboForce seeks a Senior Robotics Systems Engineer to drive the core platform for perception, planning, control, and autonomous operation. You will bridge high-level software with sensors, actuators, and embedded controllers to turn prototypes into reliable production robots.

You will collaborate five days a week in-office with the team, tackling complex system integration and field deployment across demanding environments. Advanced robotics and real-time systems expertise are essential.