Senior Robotics Systems Lead

edtric corp.; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

edtric corp. seeks a Robotics Systems Lead to bridge prototype and commercial product, shaping architecture across design, engineering, manufacturing, and field ops.

You will coordinate with external partners to realize a scalable platform and ensure robust field deployment. The role blends systems thinking with hands-on validation, requiring travel to sites and a track record of delivering production-ready robotics solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
• 10+ years developing complex electromechanical systems.
• Strong systems mindset—hardware, software, controls, and operations integration.
• Proven ability to create technical specifications, requirements, and engineering documentation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own system-level requirements for current and future robotic platforms.
• Define subsystem specifications and interface requirements.
• Build and maintain architecture descriptions, design records, and technical data.
• Establish traceability from customer needs to engineering requirements and features.
• Run system-level trade studies and architecture evaluations.
• Surface gaps in performance, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability.

Skills

Systems thinking

Technical documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or related field

Job description

We're building autonomous robots that clean hotel rooms — and we are already at testing in real hotels today. Our machines run in live, unstructured environments, where we're focused on the problems that actually matter: cleaning reliability, autonomy performance, and the operational scale it takes to run a fleet in the real world.

We're now at a demanding point in any robotics company's life: turning a robot that works, into a product that ships. That means hardening a proven prototype into a manufacturable, serviceable, deployable commercial platform — and we're looking for someone to lead that effort.

This is a high-ownership technical leadership role. You'll help shape the architecture of our next-generation platform and work across industrial design, engineering, product, manufacturing, and field operations to bring it to life.

We're building autonomous robots that clean hotel rooms — and we are already at testing in real hotels today. Our machines run in live, unstructured environments, where we're focused on the problems that actually matter: cleaning reliability, autonomy performance, and the operational scale it takes to run a fleet in the real world.

We're now at a demanding point in any robotics company's life: turning a robot that works, into a product that ships. That means hardening a proven prototype into a manufacturable, serviceable, deployable commercial platform — and we're looking for someone to lead that effort.

This is a high-ownership technical leadership role. You'll help shape the architecture of our next-generation platform and work across industrial design, engineering, product, manufacturing, and field operations to bring it to life.

The Role

As our Robotics Systems Lead, you'll own the connective tissue between a working prototype and a commercial product.

You'll partner with our engineering team to bring structure to system documentation, find the reliability and performance gaps in today's robot, define the requirements for what comes next, and coordinate the external engineering, and supplier partners who help us build it.

The role spans systems engineering, product development, sub-contractor management, and hands-on field validation. You'll move between low-level technical detail, customer needs, field testing, and supplier discussions — often in the same day.

You'll thrive here if you're a systems thinker who likes range: someone equally comfortable in a design review, on a hotel floor watching a robot work, and across the table from a software partner.

What You'll Do

Systems Engineering & Product Development

• Own system-level requirements for current and future robotic platforms
• Define subsystem specifications and interface requirements
• Build and maintain the engineering documentation backbone — architecture descriptions, design records, and technical data
• Establish traceability from customer needs to engineering requirements, testing, and product features
• Run system-level trade studies and architecture evaluations
• Surface performance, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability gaps in existing systems

Productization & Reliability

• Analyze field performance data and drive root-cause analysis on system failures
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with software and robotics engineers during deployments and validation testing
• Drive improvements in reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency
• Shape the requirements and design objectives for future product generations

Field Operations

• Test and validate robots in live hotel environments
• Travel to customer sites, suppliers, and deployment locations as needed
• Turn field observations into concrete engineering improvements

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field
• 10+ years developing complex electromechanical systems
• Experience across robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or similarly demanding products
• A strong systems mindset — you understand how hardware, software, controls, and operations interact
• A track record of creating technical specifications, requirements, and engineering documentation
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to Have

• Experience taking products from prototype through pilot or production
• Hands-on experience with robotics platforms and autonomous systems
• Reliability engineering, validation testing, and root-cause analysis
• Familiarity with ROS, robotic manipulators, mobile robots, or industrial automation

What Success Looks Like? — Your First Year

• You've built a clear, shared understanding of the current architecture and documentation
• A structured engineering documentation framework is in place and maintained
• Reliability and productization gaps are identified, prioritized, and being closed
• The requirements for the next-generation platform are defined
• You're helping guide the next generation of robots from design into deployment

Why this role?

• Real robots, real customers, real deployments — your work ships and test runs in the field
• Direct influence over the architecture and direction of the product
• Challenging autonomy, robotics, and productization problems to sink your teeth into
• Significant ownership and visibility in a growing company
• Exposure to the full product lifecycle, from prototype to deployment
• A team that genuinely loves building robots that work in the real world