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The Principal Applied Robotics Engineer is the most senior capability-engineering individual contributor, exercising broad technical authority across multiple enterprise-critical initiatives for what robots can do for the enterprise and how their behavior is engineered. The incumbent sets the engineering direction for applied robotic behavior perception, navigation, manipulation, and autonomy across the portfolio and serves as the definitive technical resource for the hardest capability and feasibility problems. Working in close partnership with research scientists who own forward-looking research. The principal leads hands-on productionization and enterprise-scale evaluation of emerging capability without duplicating the research mandate, and partners with enterprise architects on standards. This is an individual-contributor role with no direct reports that provides broad functional and technical leadership while modeling stewardship, integrity, and a commitment to developing others in service of patients, staff, and the organization.\n Bachelor's degree in robotics, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, or a related field and ten (10) years of progressively responsible relevant experience required, including demonstrated technical leadership of complex initiatives.\nMaster's or doctoral degree in a related field preferred.\nExtensive, demonstrated authority engineering and evaluating robotic behavior and autonomy on physical platforms at scale is expected. Track record setting technical direction for perception, autonomy, or manipulation; deep simulation-to-reality and learning-based expertise, including approaches such as vision-language-action (VLA) and foundation models; leadership of emerging-technology assessment for humanoid and generalist systems; healthcare or comparable safety-critical settings.\nThe preferred candidate will possess:\nSignificant experience developing and productionizing robotic or autonomous systems, including experience with perception, navigation, manipulation, motion planning, and/or autonomous decision-making.\nAdvanced programming experience in C++ and Python and demonstrated experience developing production-quality robotics software.\nExperience with ROS/ROS 2 and related robotics frameworks, tools, and ecosystems.\nExperience integrating and fusing data from robotic sensors such as cameras, depth cameras, LiDAR, force/torque sensors, or other sensing modalities.\nExperience with robotics simulation, testing, and validation technologies such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo, digital twins, hardware-in-the-loop, or simulation-in-the-loop environments.\nExperience with AI/ML techniques applied to robotics, including computer vision, robot learning, reinforcement learning, foundation models, or other approaches to intelligent autonomous behavior.\nDemonstrated experience evaluating the performance, reliability, safety, and failure modes of autonomous robotic capabilities in complex, dynamic, human-centered environments.\nExperience serving as a technical lead or senior individual contributor across multidisciplinary robotics initiatives, including translating emerging research into scalable, production-ready capabilities.\n Experience developing robotic or autonomous systems for healthcare, medical devices, logistics, industrial automation, or other safety- or mission-critical environments.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3850,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Health Care","Hospitals & Health Systems","Research Institutes","Medical Education & Training"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T02:39:36Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 479 · green card filings: 4","filings_12m":479,"filings_prev_12m":557,"green_card_filings_12m":4,"median_offered_wage_usd":89115,"route":null,"cap_exempt":true,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0},{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; 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