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Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Behavior & Interaction

FieldAI· Engineering – Mission, Interaction & Intelligence
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Hybrid (Irvine, CA / Peoria, Illinois)$160k - $220kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior role owning software systems that turn raw autonomy into finished missions, designing how humans task and collaborate with robots, and delivering insights customers act on. Responsible for behavior orchestration, robot interaction, and mission-to-insight pipelines deployed in challenging industrial environments.

Responsibilities

  • Own the behavior and mission layer that operationalizes autonomy: design and build the software that turns core autonomy capabilities into repeatable, reliable, customer-facing missions.
  • Architect behavior orchestration for autonomous missions: mission definition and execution, and robust fallback and recovery behaviors for unstructured environments.
  • Design and build human and robot interaction behavior.
  • Validate behaviors on physical platforms in real customer conditions, then close the loop from field data back into the product.
  • Lead design reviews, make architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
  • Mentor engineers and collaborate across autonomy, perception, product, field deployment, and customer-facing teams.

Qualifications

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field with significant production-quality software experience (senior-level; typically 5+ years, with meaningful robotics or autonomy work).
  • Expert-level Python and C++, writing clean, efficient, maintainable code using modern best practices.
  • Deep, hands-on experience with ROS2, designing, building, and deploying custom nodes and complex systems into production robots.
  • Proven experience building behavior orchestration systems (behavior trees, state machines, task/mission planning and execution).
  • Experience building human-in-the-loop or operator-facing systems: HRI, teleoperation, supervisory control, dashboards, or tasking and monitoring tools.
  • Strong system design skills across APIs, IPC, middleware, networking, and real-time data pipelines.
  • Track record of shipping to production and iterating from real-world use, including turning field data into product improvements.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, able to lead independently while managing multiple priorities.
  • Highly self-motivated, with excellent written and verbal communication skills and a strong collaborative mindset.

Skills

Required:PythonC++ROS2Behavior orchestrationHuman–in–the–loop / HRI
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About FieldAI

Robot intelligence built for the real-world.

FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.

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