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Senior Robotics Software Engineer

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $356.5kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Robotics Software Engineer on the Isaac Applications Team building end-to-end workflows and integrating software with physical robots to enable Physical AI capabilities in real-world and simulated environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the forefront of Physical AI progress in both simulated and real humanoid robots by building the humanoid reference platform that features NVIDIA's robotics technologies.
  • Build end-to-end workflows to develop, evaluate, and deploy increasingly autonomous and interactive robot capabilities.
  • Extend our platform to new robot embodiments and demonstrate its adaptability through hands-on integration and validation. Address real-world compute, latency, and bandwidth constraints on physical hardware.
  • Collaborate across teams in Shanghai, America, and Europe to connect capabilities and deliver reliable robotic systems.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of relevant industry experience working on robotics software.
  • Hands-on experience integrating, deploying, and testing software on physical robots, and confidence working directly with hardware when needed.
  • Experience deploying and evaluating learned policies to control physical robots.
  • Broad working knowledge of robotics software, hardware, AI, and agentic systems. Understanding how these components interact within a complete system.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, including tracing issues across software and hardware boundaries. Ability to work independently through ambiguous technical challenges.
  • Interest in designing robotics interfaces for agent-driven operation, with the ability to learn and evaluate new approaches.

Skills

Required:Robotics software engineeringHands-on hardware integrationPolicy deployment for robotsSystems thinking across software/hardware
Nice to have:Agent-driven robotics interfaces

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (link provided in description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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