Applied Intuition
Robotics Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Mid · Contract
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$14,403 more — $203,403 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $203,403 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Engineers, All Other" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- As a Robotics Engineer on our Robotics team, you will work across the full stack - from low-level controls and firmware to locomotion behaviors, manipulation, and fleet deployment.
- This is a hands-on, cross-functional role where your work ships to physical hardware and your impact is immediate.
- Debug failures on physical robots and analyze telemetry and log data to identify root causes and improve system robustness
Responsibilities
- You will collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and AI/ML teams and own subsystem integration end to end.
- Design, implement, and tune core robotics software spanning locomotion, whole-body control, and manipulation for bi-dexterous robot platforms
- Bring up software and hardware on new robot generations and own subsystem integration across actuators, sensors, motor controllers, and onboard compute
- Develop and maintain real-time control software in C++ with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and testability
- Build simulation infrastructure and validate behaviors in physics-based environments before deploying to hardware
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in C++ (C++14/17/20), including multithreading, memory management, and real-time systems
- Experience with embedded or low-level systems and familiarity with communication protocols such as CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet, and serial
- Ability to work effectively in a Linux development environment and debug complex hardware-software interactions
Nice to have
- Experience with bi-dexterous robots
- Familiarity with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware
- Experience with physics simulators such as MuJoCo, Gazebo, or NVIDIA Isaac Sim
- Background in SLAM, path planning, or perception pipelines
- Understanding of sensor fusion across IMU, lidar, cameras, and force/torque sensors
- Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located.
- Don't meet every single requirement?
- If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Skills
- About Applied Intuition
- Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI.
- Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft.
- Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo.
- Learn more at applied.co.
Compensation
- at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits.
- Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position.
- For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $189,000 - $270,000 USD annually.
Benefits
- Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.
Company info
- Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet.
- We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week.
- We are building general-purpose robots capable of performing real work in real environments.
This listing is sourced directly from Applied Intuition's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.