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abb.com • HQ: Zurich, Switzerland • Industrial Robotics • Power Grid • Industrial Automation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1988 • Trust A • Hiring 2005, 459 new
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland • Industrial Robotics • Power Grid • Industrial Automation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1988 • Trust A • Hiring 2005, 459 new
ABB is a Swiss-Swedish engineering group headquartered in Zurich that makes electrification products, robotics, motion and drive systems, and process automation and measurement equipment for utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure. Formed in 1988 through the merger of ASEA and Brown Boveri, it is listed in Zurich and Stockholm, operates in more than 100 countries and includes B&R machine automation, founded in Austria in 1979; Morten Wierod has been chief executive since August 2024. Its global careers site lists engineering, project management, service sales, production assembly and operator, quality, HR and legal roles across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
$83k – $133k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Washington • Sacramento • San Diego • Remote (United States, EST hours) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
overland.ai • HQ: Seattle, United States • Military Robotics • Defense AI • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 41, 4 new
HQ: Seattle, United States • Military Robotics • Defense AI • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 41, 4 new
Overland AI is a defense technology company that develops off-road autonomy software and autonomous ground vehicles for military use, built to operate cross-country without roads or GPS. Founded in 2022 with roots in University of Washington robotics research, it supplies its autonomy stack and ULTRA vehicles to United States Army and Marine Corps programs and tests in Ellensburg, Washington. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.
$150k – $250k per year • Equity • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Seattle, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required • Junior
zoox.com • HQ: Foster City, United States • Ride Hailing • Automotive Manufacturing • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2014 • Trust B • Hiring 230, 10 new
HQ: Foster City, United States • Ride Hailing • Automotive Manufacturing • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2014 • Trust B • Hiring 230, 10 new
Zoox is an American autonomous vehicle company founded in 2014 that designs a purpose-built robotaxi rather than retrofitting an existing car. Its vehicle has no steering wheel or driver position, seats four passengers facing each other, drives equally well in either direction and was developed alongside the sensors, compute and software that operate it, which required the company to certify the design under its own self-certification of federal motor vehicle safety standards. Amazon acquired the company in 2020 and it has since begun public robotaxi service in Las Vegas and San Francisco while testing in several other American cities.
atoms.co • HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Mining & Heavy Industry Robotics • Industrial Automation • Industrial Robotics • 1001-5000 employees • Trust A • Hiring 307, 32 new
HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Mining & Heavy Industry Robotics • Industrial Automation • Industrial Robotics • 1001-5000 employees • Trust A • Hiring 307, 32 new
Atoms is an industrial robotics company that rebranded from City Storage Systems, the parent of CloudKitchens. It builds task-specific robots and automation infrastructure across food, mining and transport, and its openings are concentrated in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and New York. The company is based in the United States.
amazon.com • HQ: Seattle, United States • Robotics AI • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics • Video Production • Developer Tools • Advertising • Logistics • Streaming & OTT Platforms • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Marketplaces • 1-10 employees • Est. 1994 • Trust B • Hiring 15514, 1133 new
HQ: Seattle, United States • Robotics AI • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics • Video Production • Developer Tools • Advertising • Logistics • Streaming & OTT Platforms • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Marketplaces • 1-10 employees • Est. 1994 • Trust B • Hiring 15514, 1133 new
Amazon is an American technology and retail conglomerate founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookstore and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It operates the world's largest online marketplace together with a global logistics network, physical grocery stores and a third-party seller platform that accounts for most units sold. Amazon Web Services, launched in 2006, is the leading public cloud provider and generates the majority of the group's operating profit, while advertising, Prime Video, Alexa devices and Kuiper satellite broadband round out the business.
aurora.tech • HQ: Pittsburgh, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • Autonomous Driving • 501-1000 employees • Hiring 98, 8 new
HQ: Pittsburgh, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • Autonomous Driving • 501-1000 employees • Hiring 98, 8 new
Aurora Innovation is an autonomous vehicle technology company dedicated to developing self-driving systems for commercial trucking and passenger mobility. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the company develops the Aurora Driver, an integrated platform combining proprietary hardware, software, and data services to safely operate vehicles without human intervention. Through strategic partnerships with leading automotive manufacturers and logistics carriers, the firm aims to transform long-haul freight and transportation into a safer, more efficient, and scalable industry.
allenai.org • HQ: Seattle, United States • Research Institutes • Foundation Models • Natural Language Processing • AI Research Labs • Est. 2014 • Trust A • Hiring 16, 2 new
HQ: Seattle, United States • Research Institutes • Foundation Models • Natural Language Processing • AI Research Labs • Est. 2014 • Trust A • Hiring 16, 2 new
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is a non-profit research institute founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to conduct high-impact artificial intelligence research and engineering in the public interest. The organization focuses on advancing open science, developing large-scale natural language processing models, and building foundational AI systems for scientific discovery and environmental conservation. Additionally, it freely releases its datasets, open-source models, and research papers, alongside creating tools like Semantic Scholar to accelerate global scientific research.
shield.ai • HQ: San Diego, United States • Defense Manufacturing • Drone AI • Defense AI • Military Drones • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015 • Trust B • Hiring 634, 55 new
HQ: San Diego, United States • Defense Manufacturing • Drone AI • Defense AI • Military Drones • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015 • Trust B • Hiring 634, 55 new
Shield AI is an American defence technology company founded in 2015 that builds autonomy software and uncrewed aircraft for military missions. Its Hivemind autonomy stack lets aircraft fly, navigate and complete objectives without GPS, a remote pilot or a communications link, which matters in contested environments where those links are jammed. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the company fields the V-BAT vertical take-off aircraft with United States and allied forces, licenses Hivemind to other manufacturers and is developing the X-BAT jet for high-end missions.
$130k – $200k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • In office (Seattle, San Diego, Dallas, Boston, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Top Secret • Senior
blueorigin.com • HQ: Kent, United States • Space Services • Launch Services • 5000+ employees • Est. 2000 • Trust A • Hiring 1507, 75 new
HQ: Kent, United States • Space Services • Launch Services • 5000+ employees • Est. 2000 • Trust A • Hiring 1507, 75 new
Blue Origin is an American aerospace company founded quietly by Jeff Bezos in 2000, and funded for two decades largely out of his own fortune rather than external investment. It flies the suborbital New Shepard vehicle for space tourism and research payloads, and developed the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket alongside the BE-4 engine, which also powers United Launch Alliance's Vulcan. Headquartered in Kent, Washington, the company is building the Blue Moon lunar lander under a NASA Artemis contract and has moved from a deliberately slow development culture toward far more aggressive schedules under chief executive Dave Limp.
brincdrones.com • HQ: Seattle, United States • Law Enforcement • Homeland Security • Drones & UAVs • Est. 2017 • Trust B • Hiring 29
HQ: Seattle, United States • Law Enforcement • Homeland Security • Drones & UAVs • Est. 2017 • Trust B • Hiring 29
BRINC is a public safety technology company that designs drones for police, fire and emergency services. Its Drone as First Responder programme sends drones to emergency calls ahead of officers, and its indoor tactical drones support SWAT teams in barricade and hostage situations with two-way communication and live video. The company builds and assembles its drones in the United States for agencies across the country and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.
accenture.com • HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) • Systems Integrators • Management Consulting • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1989 • IT services • Trust A • Hiring 4924, 220 new
HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) • Systems Integrators • Management Consulting • IT Consulting & Digital Transformation • 5000+ employees • Est. 1989 • IT services • Trust A • Hiring 4924, 220 new
Accenture is a professional services company that began as the consulting arm of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, separated as Andersen Consulting in 1989 and took its present name in 2001. It is one of the largest technology services organisations in the world, employing well over seven hundred thousand people and running strategy, consulting, technology, operations and industry work for most of the Fortune Global 500. Incorporated in Dublin and built on a delivery network concentrated in India and the Philippines, it has reoriented around cloud migration, cybersecurity and generative AI, which it now books as a distinct multi-billion dollar revenue line.
$70k – $196k per year • Staff+ • 12+ years exp • Hybrid (New York, Milwaukee, Dallas, Columbus, Kirkland, United States) • Associate's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
anduril.com • HQ: Costa Mesa, United States • Defense Manufacturing • C4ISR • Military Drones • Defense AI • 5000+ employees • Est. 2017 • Trust B • Hiring 2090, 165 new
HQ: Costa Mesa, United States • Defense Manufacturing • C4ISR • Military Drones • Defense AI • 5000+ employees • Est. 2017 • Trust B • Hiring 2090, 165 new
Anduril Industries is an American defence technology company founded in 2017 that builds autonomous systems and command software for military and border security customers. Rather than bidding on cost-plus programmes, it develops products with its own capital and sells them as finished systems, from surveillance towers and counter-drone interceptors to underwater vehicles and collaborative combat aircraft. Its Lattice software platform fuses sensor data into a single operating picture and controls the hardware family, and the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California with a large manufacturing site in Ohio.
$145k – $240k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • Hybrid (Seattle, United States) • Full-Time • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required • Senior
fieldai.com • HQ: Irvine, United States • Robotics AI • Industrial AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2023 • Trust B • Hiring 104, 7 new
HQ: Irvine, United States • Robotics AI • Industrial AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2023 • Trust B • Hiring 104, 7 new
FieldAI is a robotics company that builds embodied AI and autonomy software, marketed as a general-purpose robot brain, that lets mobile robots operate safely in unstructured real-world environments, headquartered in Irvine, California. Founded in 2023 by a team with backgrounds at NASA JPL, DeepMind, Tesla, NVIDIA and Amazon, it reports production deployments on three continents for customers in construction, energy, manufacturing, mining and federal markets. Its openings are mostly for robotics autonomy, perception and mapping engineers, machine learning and ML platform engineers, embedded, electrical and mechanical hardware engineers and infrastructure software roles.
arm.com • HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1990 • Trust A • Hiring 397, 47 new
HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • Semiconductor IP & Chip Design Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1990 • Trust A • Hiring 397, 47 new
Arm Holdings is a British semiconductor and software design company headquartered in Cambridge, England. Rather than manufacturing physical chips directly, Arm designs energy-efficient central processing unit (CPU) architectures and intellectual property (IP), licensing them to major technology partners such as Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Nvidia.
nvidia.com • HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • Servers & Data Center Hardware • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993 • Trust B • Hiring 2399, 148 new
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Computer Components • Servers & Data Center Hardware • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993 • Trust B • Hiring 2399, 148 new
NVIDIA is an American technology company founded in 1993 that invented the graphics processing unit and has become the dominant supplier of accelerated computing platforms for artificial intelligence. Its portfolio spans data centre GPUs and systems built on the Hopper and Blackwell architectures, GeForce consumer graphics, automotive and robotics platforms, high-speed networking acquired with Mellanox, and the CUDA software stack that binds the ecosystem together. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company sells to cloud providers, enterprises, research institutions and gamers worldwide and is one of the most valuable listed businesses on the Nasdaq.
aerovect.com • HQ: South San Francisco, United States • Air Transport • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2020 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 39, 1 new
HQ: South San Francisco, United States • Air Transport • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2020 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 39, 1 new
AeroVect is an autonomous driving technology company founded in 2020 that develops the AeroVect Driver, a self-driving software and sensor kit that automates airport ground support equipment such as baggage tractors and cargo haulers. Its systems are deployed with airlines and ground handlers at passenger and cargo hubs, and it hires motion planning and localization engineers, operations safety leads and autonomous vehicle test drivers in Atlanta, Toronto and New York. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States.
$162k – $202k per year • Staff+ • 7+ years exp • Hybrid (Atlanta, New York, Seattle, South San Francisco, United States, Toronto, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
≈ $79k – $155k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 4+ years exp • New York • South San Francisco • Seattle • Boston • Atlanta • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
$350k – $500k per year • Lead • 15+ years exp • Hybrid (South San Francisco, New York, Seattle, United States, Toronto, Canada) • Full-Time • Principal
sptlabtech.com • HQ: Melbourn, United Kingdom • Laboratory Equipment • Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 16, 4 new
HQ: Melbourn, United Kingdom • Laboratory Equipment • Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 16, 4 new
SPT Labtech is a British laboratory automation company that designs and manufactures instruments for life science research, including liquid handling, sample preparation and cryo-electron microscopy sample preparation systems. Its products, such as the mosquito and dragonfly liquid handlers and the chameleon system, are used by pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic laboratories for drug discovery, structural biology and genomics. The company is headquartered in Melbourn, England, United Kingdom.
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Hybrid27%
43
On site70%
112
Relocation package12%
19
Equity52%
84
The market right now
Alion currently lists 161 open Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle from 28 companies. 37 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 23 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. 8 of the 161 carry the marks of a stale or abandoned posting - open far beyond the usual time to fill, reposted, or on a board that mostly never closes a role - and are marked as likely inactive; the list can hide them. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
133 of these Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $175K and $265K a year, with a median of $226K. By level, the median runs junior at $144K, middle at $193K, senior at $240K, staff at $315K, and lead at $260K. The step from junior to lead is worth about 1.8x on median pay. 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 United States (5), Germany (2), France (2), Netherlands (2), and Sweden (2). 27% offer a hybrid arrangement, while the rest expect you on site.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle right now are Amazon (36), Overland (25), BRINC (18), Aurora Innovation (15), Zoox (13), and Atoms (7). 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 Python (89), C++ (72), Machine Learning (57), AWS (28), Computer Vision (27), Java (26), CI/CD (26), and Linux (24). 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 Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle, 2 state visa sponsorship, 19 offer a relocation package, and 84 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
How many Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle are open right now?
There are 161 open Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle on Alion from 28 companies. The list was last refreshed on October 23, 2026.
Are all of these Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle still being filled?
Probably not all of them. 8 of the 161 show the marks Alion reads as a likely inactive posting: open far longer than employers usually take to fill such a role, reposted several times, or sitting on a board that rarely closes anything. They stay listed with a warning, and the list can hide them with one switch.
What do Robotics Engineer jobs in Seattle pay?
The median is $226K a year, and the middle half of the market falls between $175K and $265K. This is based on the 133 listings that state pay.
Are any of these roles remote?
6 of the 161 listings (4%) are fully remote, and you can filter the list down to them in one click.
Which companies are hiring?
The most active employers right now are Amazon, Overland, BRINC, Aurora Innovation, Zoox, and Atoms. Each has its own page on Alion with the rest of its open roles.
Can I get visa sponsorship or relocation?
Yes - of the current listings, 2 state visa sponsorship and 19 offer a relocation package. Both are filters on the jobs page.
How do I apply?
Open any listing and apply on the employer's own board through the link on the page. No account is required to browse or to apply.
