Robotics Application Engineer
Pittsburgh, United States · Full-time
- Posted 1mo ago
- From Skild AI’s careers page
- Location
- Pittsburgh, United States
- Type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Department
- Engineering
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deploy software for robotic systems, including programming, configuration, and validation.
- Integrate and deploy robotic software solutions into production environments.
- Test, troubleshoot, and debug robotic applications — tracing failures across hardware, software, and model layers.
- Work closely with ML and core robotics engineers to surface deployment failures, reproduce edge cases, and translate field learnings into system improvements.
- Analyze and improve robot algorithms and system performance over time.
- Build and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and tooling to support configuration, monitoring, and performance evaluation.
- Collaborate with hardware, operations, and R&D teams to optimize robotic performance and scalability.
Preferred Qualifications:
- BS, MS, or higher degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in robotics application development, system integration, or field deployment.
- Proficiency in Python and C++; strong working knowledge of ROS/ROS2.
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning techniques as applied to robotic systems.
- Background in autonomous systems — robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, or similar.
- Familiarity with vision systems, simulation tools, and sensor integration.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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About Skild AI
General-purpose AI for roboticsSkild AI develops general-purpose robotic intelligence for machines operating in the physical world.
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