Robotics Jobs

A Robotics engineer in the agentic economy combines classical robotics (kinematics, control, perception, simulation) with foundation models: vision-language-action policies, learned manipulation, and embodied agents. The hottest hiring is at humanoid startups (Figure, 1X, Physical Intelligence), at autonomous-vehicle companies, and at warehouse-automation firms. The role expects strong systems-engineering skills (real-time loops, ROS, embedded), willingness to debug hardware, and growing fluency with diffusion policies, action-chunked transformers, and sim-to-real training. Most listings prefer candidates who have shipped to physical robots, not just simulators.

As of October 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 23 open Robotics positions across 11 companies. The median advertised salary is $225K–$318K per year (based on 12 listings with disclosed pay). 9% of roles are remote. The most active employers are OpenAI, NVIDIA, autonomous-teaming.

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