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Robotics Autonomy Engineer, Triage

FieldAI· Engineering – Autonomy
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Irvine, CA$100k - $200kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

FieldAI’s Irvine team builds risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems for real robots. The Robotics Autonomy Engineer – Triage serves as the fastest link between field experiences and the autonomy stack, reproducing behaviors, diagnosing root causes, and driving rapid fixes and tests for real deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Triage incoming reports from field deployments and customer sites, assess impact, and decide what gets fixed now, what gets routed, and what gets tracked.
  • Reproduce field behaviors from logs, telemetry, and recordings, both in simulation and on hardware.
  • Root cause behaviors that span perception, localization, planning, control, and integration boundaries, and ship targeted fixes quickly.
  • Turn every fix into a regression test, scenario, or hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) check so the improvement holds.
  • Build triage tooling for log analysis, event detection, and trend tracking across robots and sites.
  • Run structured test campaigns before releases and help decide when a build is ready for the field.
  • Share clear findings and summaries with owning teams, and champion design improvements when patterns emerge.
  • Travel occasionally to deployment sites to see robots operate firsthand and support field teams

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 2+ years of experience working on real autonomous systems in industry or research.
  • Strong debugging skills across the full autonomy stack, from sensors and drivers to planning and control.
  • Solid programming skills in C++ and Python in Linux-based environments.
  • Familiarity with robotics middleware such as ROS/ROS 2.
  • Experience analyzing logs, telemetry, and recorded robot data to understand system behavior.
  • Comfort working quickly with incomplete information, and communicating clearly with engineers and field teams

Skills

Required:Robotics software developmentC++PythonROS/ROS 2
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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