Top Robotics Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and maintain robotics software for simulation and real robotic arm hardware across motion planning, control, perception, and manipulation. Prototype ideas, harden successful systems for deployment, and develop tests and metrics to measure robot performance and prevent regressions. The role requires ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and practical expertise in robotics software development.

Design, build, and integrate software for autonomous robots across the robotics stack, including sensor integration, perception, localization, motion planning, control, and behavioral systems. Develop production systems using ROS/ROS 2, real-time and concurrent programming, sensor fusion, and simulation environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, support field tests and hardware integration, conduct code and design reviews, and mentor junior engineers.

Provides advanced technical support for robotic systems during commissioning and 24/7 customer operations. Diagnoses hardware, software, controls, Linux, network, and automation failures; analyzes logs and telemetry; develops integrations and support workflows; leads major incidents; coordinates engineering, field service, and customer teams; manages cases and corrective actions; validates AI-assisted diagnostics; and mentors engineers while improving system reliability and recovery times.

Designs and maintains software integrating laboratory instruments, robotics, automation platforms, data systems, and decision tools. Builds APIs, experimental workflow orchestration, sample tracking, scheduling, state management, error recovery, monitoring, and diagnostic capabilities for reliable autonomous research. Collaborates with scientists, robotics and automation engineers, and data scientists to develop scalable software supporting scientific databases, machine learning models, and closed-loop experimentation. Applies testing, Git, CI/CD, documentation, and containerization practices.

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

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux. Owns platform components through deployment and fleet operation, improves reliability and performance, diagnoses complex concurrency and systems issues, and translates safety requirements into software behavior and verification. Collaborates across autonomy, systems, hardware, and software teams while leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

Build realistic simulation environments, tools, and infrastructure for autonomous boats, drones, ground vehicles, and multi-agent systems. Develop configurable scenarios, sensor models, agent behaviors, closed-loop SIL and HIL workflows, replay and regression testing, and automated scenario evaluation. Integrate simulations with autonomy stacks, mission software, command-and-control systems, and data pipelines. Improve simulation scalability, fidelity, debugging, and developer workflows while helping engineering teams reproduce field failures and validate systems before deployment.

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 architecture and technical direction of autonomy and vehicle software for autonomous underwater vehicles. Lead cross-disciplinary robotics challenges spanning onboard software, GNC, state estimation, sensing, fault management, testing, field operations, and fleet-scale deployment. Improve unattended mission reliability through FDIR, safe-state behaviors, telemetry, logging, sensor synchronization, OTA updates, and rollback. Mentor engineers, establish quality standards, manage the roadmap, support on-call operations, and drive practical AI adoption.

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, 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.

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.