Robotics jobs in the United States: robotics, software and AI engineering roles

5,883 open roles at 535 robotics companies in the United States: Robotics engineering (1,176), Software engineering (1,016), AI, perception and data (571), Hardware and embedded (433), Mechanical and manufacturing engineering (1,006), Field service and robot technicians (705), Product, programs and leadership (872), Graduates and internships (104). 5,064 of them are open to candidates of any nationality; the rest ask for citizenship or a government security check. 536 mention relocation support.

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open roles
5,883
companies
535
open to any nationality
86%
median stated pay
$173k

Companies hiring

CompanyOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
Intuitive Surgical258100%2
Waymo245100%8
AeroVironment2415%20
Zoox191100%
Applied Intuition19085%5
Atoms137100%
Amazon13195%14
KION Group102100%1
Skydio10094%85
Anduril Industries983%3
FieldAI9496%
Terex Corporation89100%2
Nuro86100%
Symbotic83100%14
Pickett77100%1

Newest roles

Amazon

amazon.com
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 15691, 1085 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 15691, 1085 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.
Jeff Bezos · Founder & Executive Chairman · decision-maker
Scott McMillan · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Emily Austin · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Joel Wallenstrom · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Sr. Thermal & Mechanical Packaging Engineer, Annapurna Labs

$154k – $215k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Austin, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Machine Learning
DevOps
AWS
SpaceTech
Abaqus
ANSYS
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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Controls Application Engineer, Controls Design eXecution

$117k – $160k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Austin, Bellevue, Herndon, Columbus, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
AWS
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Rhoda AI

rhoda.ai
rhoda.ai • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Industrial Robotics • Humanoid Robots • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 44, 7 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Industrial Robotics • Humanoid Robots • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 44, 7 new
Rhoda AI is an artificial intelligence and robotics company that develops foundational models and humanoid manipulation platforms for industrial automation. Founded in 2024, the startup utilizes large-scale video pretraining to enable autonomous robots to execute complex manufacturing and logistics tasks. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company provides software and hardware solutions to streamline real-world commercial workflows.
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Senior / Staff Technical Program Manager, AI Research

≈ $249k – $452k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • In office (Mountain View, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Post-training
Pre-training
World Models
Machine Learning
Embodied AI
Computer Vision
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Software Engineer, Rhoda Platform

≈ $135k – $275k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Mountain View, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Rust
C++
Python
AI/ML
World Models
DevOps
gRPC
WebSockets
Amazon S3
GCP
AWS
Robotics
ROS
ROS2
Teleoperation
IoT
MQTT
+5
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Overland

overland.ai
overland.ai • HQ: Seattle, United States • Military Robotics • Defense AI • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 40, 3 new
HQ: Seattle, United States • Military Robotics • Defense AI • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 40, 3 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.
Benjamin Barocas · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Gregory Okopal · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Stephanie Bonk · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Byron Boots · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Software Safety Engineer

$170k – $225k per year • Equity • In office (Seattle, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Nationals only
C++
Python
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Robotics
ROS
SpaceTech
DO-178C
Defense
MIL-STD-882
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System Safety Engineer

$170k – $225k per year • Equity • In office (Seattle, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Nationals only
Machine Learning
Management
Jira
SpaceTech
FMEA
SysML
Cameo Systems Modeler
IBM DOORS
MBSE
Defense
MIL-STD-882
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Intuitive Surgical

intuitive.com
intuitive.com • HQ: Sunnyvale, United States • Medical & Healthcare Robotics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1995 • NASDAQ: ISRG • Trust B • Hiring 583, 85 new
HQ: Sunnyvale, United States • Medical & Healthcare Robotics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1995 • NASDAQ: ISRG • Trust B • Hiring 583, 85 new
Intuitive Surgical is an American medical device company founded in 1995 that created the market for robotic-assisted soft tissue surgery with its da Vinci systems. A surgeon works from a console controlling instruments mounted on robotic arms, and the company earns most of its revenue not from the systems themselves but from the instruments and accessories consumed in every procedure and from service contracts on the installed base. Headquartered in Sunnyvale and listed on Nasdaq, it has expanded into lung biopsy with the Ion catheter platform and reports procedure volumes as its primary growth measure.
Jamie Samath · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Gary Guthart · Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Frederic Moll · Co-founder · founder
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Sr Supplier Engineer – Electronics, Future Forward

≈ $90k – $169k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years exp • In office (Sunnyvale, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • GMP / cleanroom • Middle • English
Windows
SpaceTech
FMEA
GD&T
MedTech
CAPA
ISO 13485
21 CFR Part 820
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Manufacturing Engineer - Systems

≈ $69k – $125k per year (Estimated) • Junior • In office (Sunnyvale, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • GMP / cleanroom • Middle • English
SolidWorks
MedTech
Design History File
Design Controls
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Bedrock Robotics

bedrockrobotics.com
bedrockrobotics.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Construction Robotics • Robotics • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 49, 2 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Construction Robotics • Robotics • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 49, 2 new
Bedrock Robotics is a San Francisco company developing autonomous driving systems that retrofit heavy construction equipment such as excavators, helping contractors add capacity and speed up infrastructure and site work. Founded in 2024 by veterans of self-driving and robotics programs, it has engineering teams in San Francisco and New York and field operations and testing in Lockhart, Texas. Its openings are largely engineering roles in state estimation and localization, behavior and world-model machine learning, onboard inference infrastructure, sensor systems, fleet platform software, hardware integration and validation, including a large 2027 internship program.
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Technical Program Manager, Data Products

≈ $172k – $318k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 7+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
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Operations Manufacturing Test Lead

≈ $107k – $247k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Anomaly Detection
AI Agents
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Waymo

waymo.com
waymo.com • HQ: Mountain View, United States • Ride Hailing • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 5000+ employees • Est. 2009 • Trust B • Hiring 355, 25 new
HQ: Mountain View, United States • Ride Hailing • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 5000+ employees • Est. 2009 • Trust B • Hiring 355, 25 new
Waymo is an American autonomous driving company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009 and became a standalone Alphabet subsidiary in 2016. It operates the largest fully driverless commercial ride-hailing service in the world through the Waymo One app, carrying paying passengers with no human in the vehicle across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin and an expanding list of cities. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company builds its own sensor suite and the Waymo Driver software stack, integrates them into vehicles from partners such as Jaguar, Zeekr and Hyundai, and also develops autonomous trucking technology.
Dmitri Dolgov · Co-Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer · decision-maker
Tekedra Mawakana · Co-Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Sebastian Thrun · Founder of the Google Self-Driving Car Project · founder
Anthony Levandowski · Founding Engineer
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Machine Learning Engineer, Scenes

$175k – $215k per year • Equity • In office (Mountain View, San Francisco, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
PyTorch
Machine Learning
Robotics
Motion Planning
Reinforcement Learning
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Senior Technical Program Manager, Partner Trip Platform

$230k – $284k per year • Equity • Senior • 7+ years exp • In office (Mountain View, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
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Skills these roles ask for

Python 1,997C++ 1,532Machine Learning 878Linux 724Computer Vision 508CI/CD 429Physical AI 371PyTorch 360ROS 330SolidWorks 324Sensor Fusion 306Motion Planning 281AWS 280SQL 258Reinforcement Learning 248Multimodal AI 247

Where the roles are

San Francisco 711Sunnyvale 501Mountain View 459Austin 244Pittsburgh 227Foster City 169Seattle 149Boston 144Santa Clara 136New York 131

Robotics roles that fit you

Tell us your field once: new robotics roles that fit it arrive in your matches every day.

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

5,064 of the 5,883 roles here state no citizenship or security-check demand. A role that does - defence drones and export-controlled autonomy work often do - says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which robotics companies hire most?

Intuitive Surgical (258), Waymo (245), AeroVironment (241), Zoox (191), Applied Intuition (190).

Which employers count as robotics companies?

Companies whose main business is robots - industrial and warehouse automation, surgical and service robots, humanoids, drones and autonomous vehicles, and the makers of their sensors, actuators and robot software - and every role whose title names robotics work at any employer.

How fresh is this?

Every role is re-checked on the employer's own careers board at least every 48 hours, and the page is rebuilt every night.

Source: 5,883 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 23 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0