Company
Skild AI
Annual salary
$150k – $200k/yr
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Listed
134d ago
- Experience:
- 3 to 5 years
- Workplace:
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Visa:
- Visa sponsorship not available
- Equity:
- Competitive equity
On-site in Pittsburgh, PA. Visa sponsorship not available.
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About this Role
We are looking for a Robotics Application Engineer with 3, 5+ years of experience to bridge foundation models and real-world robotic deployment at Skild AI. You'll be a hands-on, highly technical builder who thrives at the intersection of software development, systems integration, and field operations, helping shape the future of general-purpose robotic intelligence.
What you need
- 3, 5+ years of hands-on experience in robotics application development, system integration, or field deployment.
- Proficiency in Python and C++ with strong working knowledge of ROS/ROS2.
- Background in autonomous systems, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, or similar.
- Familiarity with AI/ML techniques as applied to robotic systems.
- BS, MS, or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
What will you be doing?
Design, develop, and deploy software for robotic systems, including programming, configuration, and validation.
Integrate robotic software solutions into production environments and troubleshoot failures across hardware, software, and model layers.
Collaborate closely with ML and core robotics engineers to surface deployment failures, reproduce edge cases, and feed field learnings back into system improvements.
Analyze and continuously improve robot algorithms and overall system performance.
Build and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and tooling to support configuration, monitoring, and performance evaluation.
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