Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

As a Robotics Engineer, you'll operate and test robot platforms, integrate sensors, manage data pipelines, and debug issues to improve model evaluation.

Own the technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap for an autonomous construction robotics stack spanning localization, planning, controls, and safeguarding. Make build-versus-reuse-versus-buy decisions, design safety systems, guide integration and field validation, establish shared technical foundations across autonomy programs, and mentor engineers. The role requires architecting and shipping production autonomous systems, strong compiled-language software skills, broad systems judgment, and 10+ years of relevant experience.

Lead onsite discovery, design, integration, programming, and commissioning of industrial robotics cells for enterprise distribution centers. Own robot motion, palletizing and sortation logic, functional safety, controls interfaces, vision-to-motion workflows, failure recovery, operator interfaces, testing, documentation, and customer handoff. Collaborate directly with distribution, engineering, IT, maintenance, and EHS stakeholders while converting customer-specific solutions into reusable platform capabilities.

Lead evaluation, design, prototyping, and integration of robotic manipulation and automation for autonomous vehicle operations in logistics yards. Champion vendor selection, system architecture, perception, motion planning, controls, and field validation to enable safety-critical tasks like automated trailer coupling.

Design, program, integrate, and deploy industrial robotic solutions (palletizing, picking, goods-to-person) for fulfillment and manufacturing. Work includes robot programming, systems integration with conveyors and vision, simulation, commissioning troubleshooting, cycle-time optimization, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Develop robotics software for laboratory automation systems, focusing on precise motion control, liquid handling, sample transport, real-time perception, sensor fusion, computer vision, and calibration. Optimize embedded and real-time performance, conduct hardware-in-the-loop testing, and implement CI/CD validation. Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and AI teams to deliver safe, reliable autonomous instrument behaviors from concept through verification.

Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for complex robotics software supporting autonomous platforms. Design fault-tolerant systems for vehicle control, motion planning, localization, perception, controls, and fleet management. Collaborate across robotics, hardware, machine learning, perception, systems engineering, and product teams; establish software standards, testing, deployment, and validation practices; debug hardware-software integrations; and mentor engineers. The role focuses on reliable, safety-critical production software for autonomous agricultural and heavy machinery.

Design, develop, test, and debug features for autonomous construction equipment while optimizing controls systems and maintaining code quality standards.

Lead the design, development, and deployment of autonomous systems for heavy construction equipment while mentoring engineering teams and improving system performance.

Manage the full deployment lifecycle for retail locations, coordinating installation, network setup, configurations, and troubleshooting, while building automation and ensuring quality.

Develop on-vehicle and simulation software across the autonomy stack: planning behaviors, sensor and payload integration, embedded/vehicle platforms, realistic UxS simulation, and electronics prototyping. Ensure reliable, testable code and support onsite test/integration events (up to 25% travel).

As Robotics & Automation Project Engineer, you will ensure reliability of robotic systems, diagnose failures, implement improvements, and support operations across manufacturing environments.

Design, build, and test navigation, safety, control, and sequencing systems for autonomous agricultural vehicles; triage and resolve field issues; write tested, hardened safe code; occasionally travel to customer sites to observe and refine systems.

Design, build, test, and debug navigation, safety, control, and sequencing systems for autonomous agricultural vehicles. Reproduce and resolve field issues, write tested and hardened code, and support deployment with occasional customer-site travel.