Robotics Systems Engineer
FieldAI· Engineering – Infra & Platform Engineering
Hybrid (Irvine, CA)$150k - $200kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
FieldAI Irvine is seeking a Robotics Systems Engineer to build and integrate field-ready robotics software and hardware systems, bringing up onboard compute, sensors, networking, and supporting hardware across robot platforms, and collaborating across robotics, autonomy, hardware, and deployment teams to move platforms from development to field deployment.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the systems software that powers Field AI's robotic platforms.
- Bring up and integrate onboard compute, sensors, networking, and supporting hardware across different robot platforms.
- Develop tooling and services for robot provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, diagnostics, and recovery.
- Integrate hardware interfaces, device drivers, vendor SDKs, and system services into a reliable robot runtime.
- Debug complex system-level issues spanning software, operating systems, networking, compute, sensors, and hardware.
- Improve robot reliability through automated testing, observability, health monitoring, and fault recovery.
- Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, hardware, infrastructure, and deployment teams to bring new platforms from development to field deployment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in robotics, systems software, embedded systems, or a related engineering role.
- Strong software engineering skills in C++ and/or Python.
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, processes, devices, and system configuration.
- Hands-on experience developing, integrating, or debugging robotic, embedded, or other hardware-software systems.
- Familiarity with ROS/ROS 2 or similar robotics middleware.
- Ability to debug complex problems across software and hardware boundaries and drive them through resolution.
Skills
Required:C++PythonLinuxROS / ROS 2
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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