Novanta supplies photonics, vision and precision motion components to equipment manufacturers. Its lasers, encoders and imaging subsystems go into medical and advanced industrial machines. The company operates through a family of specialised engineering brands.
HQ: Bedford, United States • Information Technology • Data & Analytics • Health Care • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1968
≈ $31k – $70k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Barcelona, Spain) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Junior • Spanish
Git
Robotics
CANopen
EtherCAT
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
≈ $31k – $70k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 1+ year exp • In office (Barcelona, Spain) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Junior • Spanish
Git
Robotics
CANopen
EtherCAT
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
≈ $23k – $82k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Barcelona, Spain) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior • Spanish
Python
Python
PyQt
DevOps
Git
Robotics
CANopen
EtherCAT
Vanderlande is a Dutch company founded in 1949 and headquartered in Veghel. It builds automated baggage handling, parcel sortation and warehouse systems together with the software that runs them. Its systems operate in hundreds of airports and distribution centres worldwide.
HQ: 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands • Digital Media • Logistics • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1949
$73k – $96k per year (gross) • Remote/Hybrid (Veghel, Netherlands) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • English
C++
MATLAB
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
Robotics
CANopen
3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and founded in 1902. The company produces a vast range of products including adhesives, abrasives, window films, personal protective equipment, and automotive components. It operates through three primary business segments - Safety and Industrial, Transportation and Electronics, and Consumer - following the 2024 spin-off of its healthcare division.
HQ: Saint Paul, United States • Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) • Tools & DIY Supplies • Automotive Manufacturing • Chemical Manufacturing • Consumer Goods • Advanced Materials • Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1902
≈ $91k – $178k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (Austin, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
C++
Python
AI/ML
OpenCV
Robotics
CANopen
EtherCAT
Pronto.ai is an autonomous vehicle technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2018 by Anthony Levandowski. The company builds camera based autonomy that retrofits onto heavy haul trucks, aimed at off road industrial sites rather than public roads. It deploys its systems in quarries and mines, where autonomous haulage runs on fixed routes under controlled site conditions.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Fleet Management • Mining Tech • Natural Resources • Autonomous Driving • Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • Transportation & Logistics • Mining & Heavy Industry Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018
$182k – $230k per year • Equity • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
AI Robot Association (AIRoA) is a Japanese non-profit organization dedicated to advancing AI-powered robotics through open data platforms and collaborative research. The association develops scalable robot data ecosystems, foundation models, and shared software tools to accelerate the deployment of humanoid and general-purpose robots worldwide.
Tokyo • Robotics AI • Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2023
≈ $28k – $81k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Tokyo • Remote (Japan) • Full-Time • Middle
C++
MATLAB
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
Vector
RTOS
Robotics
EtherCAT
Motion Planning
CANopen
MuJoCo
Pinocchio
≈ $28k – $81k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office • Middle • Japanese
C++
MATLAB
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
Vector
RTOS
Robotics
EtherCAT
Motion Planning
CANopen
MuJoCo
Pinocchio
In office • Japanese: C1
C++
Python
AI/ML
Anomaly Detection
DevOps
RTOS
Robotics
ROS
Teleoperation
ROS2
CANopen
EtherCAT
Micro-ROS
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.
HQ: Kalamazoo, United States • Real Estate • Biotechnology • Health Care • Medical Devices • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $26k – $55k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 9+ years exp • In office (Bengaluru, India) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
DevOps
CI/CD
Robotics
CANopen
IoT
MQTT
QA
Pytest
Fully automated pick and pack, all temperatures and categories, item level data and control. Fulfil delivers what no other automation can.
Hillsboro • Mountain View
≈ $117k – $243k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • In office (Mountain View, United States) • Staff
C++
C++
CMake
Protobuf
AI/ML
Computer Vision
DevOps
Bazel
CI/CD
gRPC
Robotics
CANopen
IoT
MQTT
Cowboy is a Belgian company founded in 2017 that designs connected electric bicycles. Its bikes pair with a mobile application that handles navigation, theft detection and over-the-air software updates. The company sells directly to consumers across Europe.
HQ: Brussels, Belgium • Bicycles & Cycling • Est. 2017
Remote/Hybrid (Brussels, Belgium) • Master's Degree • Full-Time
C++
Robotics
CANopen
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
IoT
Zephyr OS
Founded in 1988, XP Power is a leading global provider of power solution products, including AC-DC power supplies, DC-DC converters, and high voltage power systems. The company serves critical industries such as healthcare, industrial technology, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, designing critical components that power essential electronics. Operating internationally with manufacturing facilities and design centers across Asia, Europe, and North America, it focuses on delivering highly efficient, reliable power conversion technology.
HQ: Singapore • Electronic Components • Hardware • Power Supplies
$75k – $81k per year • Remote/Hybrid (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Junior • English
Seattle's premier destination for ceremonial-grade matcha from Shizuoka, Japan. Shop online or visit our cafes and matcha bars.
Seattle • Commerce • Food & Beverages
$118k – $155k per year • In office (Seattle, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Rust
Rust
Embassy
Robotics
CANopen
UAVCAN
IoT
Embedded Rust
FreeRTOS
Staubli is a Swiss mechatronics group headquartered in Pfaffikon, Switzerland, and founded in 1892 in Horgen. The company runs three divisions covering textile machinery, quick release connectors and fluid couplings, and industrial robotics, including cleanroom and high speed pick and place robots. It is family owned, manufactures in Europe and Asia, and serves the automotive, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and textile industries from subsidiaries in around 30 countries.
HQ: Pfäffikon, Switzerland • Mechanical Components • Hardware • Textile Manufacturing • Manufacturing • Industrial Robotics • Robotics • Industrial Machinery • 5000+ employees
≈ $33k – $81k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid (Italy) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Italian: C1
C++
Python
Robotics
CANopen
IoT
FreeRTOS
MQTT
Zigbee
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| All levels |
9 |
$51K |
$55K |
$57K |
Few employers in this selection publish pay, so these figures are Alion estimates built from comparable listings by role, level and country. Gross annual, converted to USD.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 15 open CANopen jobs from 11 companies. 2 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 10 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
Most employers in this selection do not publish a figure, so the range below is Alion's own estimate, derived from 9 comparable listings priced by role, level and country. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $51K and $57K a year, with a median of $55K. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Spain (3), United Kingdom (1), Belgium (1), Italy (1), and Netherlands (1). 7% of the listings are fully remote and a further 27% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open CANopen jobs right now are Novanta (3), AI Robot Association (3), Vanderlande (1), 3M (1), Pronto.ai (1), and Stryker (1). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are CANopen (15), C++ (9), Python (8), EtherCAT (7), MATLAB (3), RTOS (3), MQTT (3), and Simulink (3). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current CANopen jobs, 1 offers a relocation package and 1 includes equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
