Google

Staff Robotics Automation Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure

Google$188K — $275K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development.
  • Experience deploying or shipping full-stack robotics systems.
  • Experience transitioning R&D projects into deployed systems.
  • Expertise in robotic control, planning, kinematics, or mechatronic systems.

Responsibilities

  • Set goals for robotics stack, guiding architecture, systems design, and integration.
  • Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across multiple disciplines.
  • Conduct hardware architecture reviews to identify potential technical design gaps.
  • Lead design reviews to address technical issues and document decisions.
  • Provide technical support and guidance to internal teams and external partners.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package, details available upon inquiry.
  • 20% bonus target.
  • Equity options part of compensation package.
Full Job Description
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X This is a specialized role which requires physical interaction with hardware equipment in a simulated data center environment, utilizing Google labs, power, and safety equipment. Regular development and processing of engineering hardware must be performed on site.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development.
  • Experience deploying or shipping full-stack robotics systems.
  • Experience with robotics applications development, or transitioning research and development (R&D) projects into deployed systems.
  • Experience with robotic control, planning, kinematics, or mechatronic systems.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 8 years of experience with the overall process for developing robotics products, including experience identifying issues and considerations for delivering a robotics product.
  • Experience with collaborative robot systems, human-robot interaction design considerations, embedded systems, sensor fusion, and actuator control.
  • Experience building hardware and embedded architectures for state estimation, SLAM, and proprioception pipelines, ensuring compliance with embodied AI safety standards across distributed fleets.
  • Experience with sensor integration and calibration for robotics applications, including vision systems, LiDAR, and inertial measurement units.
  • Experience in project management or leading cross-functional teams.
  • Familiarity with motion control systems and robotics programming languages (e.g., ROS.)


About the job
This team is dedicated to implementing robotics technologies and solutions to transform operations inside our data centers. In this role, you will lead across multiple robotics engineering disciplines to develop innovative and industry-leading solutions to enable next generation data center operations. You will collaborate closely with hardware, software and system engineers to ensure seamless product integration, and integration of the solutions into our infrastructure operations.

US: $188000 - $275000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Set the goals for our robotics stack- guiding architecture, systems design, and integration. Collaborate closely with executive leadership to align on Robotics initiatives and roadmap, engineering execution with business goals.
  • Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software disciplines within Robotics engineering.
  • Lead hardware architecture reviews with software and system teams to identify and address potential gaps in the technical design, ensuring the overall solution performance and scalability.
  • Lead and participate in design reviews to address technical issues during the development, document design decisions, specifications, test procedures, and results, maintaining clear and organized records to facilitate knowledge sharing and project continuity.
  • Provide technical support and guidance to internal teams and external partners (including solution vendors and Contract Manufacturers) throughout the development lifecycle, addressing inquiries and resolving issues as they arise.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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1998
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