Robotics Engineer, Humanoid System Integration

FieldAI

$90K — $130K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering preferred; BS with relevant experience accepted.
  • Background suitable for junior-to-mid engineer; recent MS and PhD graduates encouraged.
  • Strong hands-on experience in integrating real robotic systems; simulation-only backgrounds not applicable.
  • Proficient in C++ and Python within Linux environments for robotics applications.
  • Experience with ROS/ROS2, middleware, drivers, diagnostics, and distributed systems.
  • Understanding of critical robotic concepts: perception, planning, controls, locomotion, and sensor integration.
  • Ability to analyze performance, identify failures, and collaborate across technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • Integrate humanoid subsystems into a cohesive robot system ready for testing and deployment.
  • Define and maintain operational interfaces across key robotic components.
  • Manage processes for robot bring-up, calibration, and diagnostic workflows.
  • Debug and resolve system-level issues across software, hardware, and networking.
  • Develop comprehensive integration tests, monitoring tools, and release checks.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure humanoid platforms are continuously deployable.
  • Transform research capabilities into robust, testable modules for deployment.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge humanoid robotics technology.
  • Collaborative environment with exposure to diverse teams including manipulation and hardware.
  • Encouragement for professional development and growth within robotics.
  • Participation in projects from initial research through to field deployment.
  • Engagement with both innovative and practical aspects of robotics integration.
Full Job Description
The Robotics Engineer, Humanoid System Integration will own the integration of humanoid software and hardware subsystems into a cohesive robot stack that is testable, debuggable, and deployment-ready. This role is responsible for bringing together perception, localization, planning, locomotion, manipulation, controls, sensors, compute, networking, diagnostics, and release workflows.

What You'll Do

  • Integrate humanoid subsystems into a reliable full-stack robot system running on physical hardware.
  • Define and maintain interfaces across autonomy, manipulation, locomotion, sensors, compute, controls, and field tools.
  • Own robot bring-up, calibration, configuration, diagnostics, and validation workflows.
  • Debug system-level issues across software, hardware, networking, timing, compute constraints, sensor data, and robot behavior.
  • Develop integration tests, regression tests, telemetry tools, dashboards, and release-readiness checks.
  • Partner with manipulation, hardware, QA/QC, field application, and service teams to keep humanoid platforms continuously shippable.
  • Harden research or prototype capabilities into maintainable, testable, deployment-ready modules.


What You Bring

  • MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field preferred; BS considered with a demonstrated track record of hands-on robotics work across multiple physical systems - research projects, competition robotics, or internships with daily hardware exposure.
  • Background appropriate for a junior-to-mid engineer; fresh MS and PhD graduates welcome.
  • Strong hands-on experience integrating robotic systems on real hardware - must include physical hardware; simulation-only backgrounds will not be considered.
  • Strong C++ and Python skills in Linux-based robotics environments.
  • Experience with ROS/ROS2, robot middleware, drivers, calibration, diagnostics, logging, and distributed systems.
  • Understanding of perception, planning, controls, locomotion, manipulation, sensor integration, and embedded compute constraints.
  • Ability to profile performance, isolate failures, define interfaces, and coordinate across multiple technical teams.


What Sets You Apart

  • You've integrated a humanoid or legged/mobile manipulation platform from bring-up through field deployment - not just research or simulation.
  • You've owned the interfaces between locomotion, manipulation, and perception, and debugged failures across those seams on real hardware.
  • You've built the tooling that made other engineers faster: calibration pipelines, regression harnesses, telemetry dashboards, or release gates that prevented bad deploys.
  • You carry hard-won instincts about what separates a demo-ready system from a deployment-ready one - and you've acted on that distinction.


Our salary range is generous and we consider each individual's background and experience when determining final compensation. Base pay may vary based on role scope, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the Irvine, California market.

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