Staff Robotics Engineer — On-Device Autonomy Leader

Arm; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm seeks a Staff Robotics Engineer to advance Physical AI on Arm-powered devices. You will design software foundations linking sensing, planning, control, and actuation for autonomous, on-device operation without cloud reliance.

You will provide technical leadership across robotics architecture, platform integration, and developer workflows, shaping how robots run on Arm hardware and molding production-grade reference platforms for customers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of robotics or embedded software experience in real-world environments.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python with strong design, debugging, and code-quality practices.
• Strong understanding of robotics middleware and communication patterns, ROS 2, sensor/actuator interfaces, timing, and Linux-based RTOS environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement modular robotics software that integrates sensors, state estimation, planning, control, and actuators.
• Define stable interfaces and system boundaries across the autonomy stack, middleware, OS, and hardware accelerators.
• Lead integration of robotics components into production-ready reference platforms and customer-facing demonstrations.
• Build APIs, SDKs, and reusable components to simplify robotics development, configuration, and deployment.
• Improve workflows for simulation, on-target testing, calibration, logging, replay, and OTA component updates.
• Create observability and diagnostic tools that expose timing, resource use, faults, and robot behavior across distributed components.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics middleware

ROS 2

Real-time systems

Leadership

Linux

Git

Tools

Linux

Git

C++ tooling

Job description

Arm seeks a Staff Robotics Engineer to advance Physical AI on Arm-powered devices. You will design software foundations linking sensing, planning, control, and actuation for autonomous, on-device operation without cloud reliance.

You will provide technical leadership across robotics architecture, platform integration, and developer workflows, shaping how robots run on Arm hardware and molding production-grade reference platforms for customers.