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$174,000–$305,000/yr
US

  • Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for complex robotics software systems.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define requirements and validate system-level strategies.
  • Mentor engineers and establish engineering best practices for production robotics software.

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$210,000–$240,000/yr
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  • Drive deep technical work across perception, localization and mapping, planning, and control.
  • Define and enforce stable API contracts between autonomy components and raise production software quality.
  • Partner with research collaborators to translate cutting-edge research into robust, deployed capabilities.

FieldAI builds risk-aware, field-ready AI systems for legged and wheeled robots, combining rigorous engineering with learning systems. The company has a world-class team with experience from DeepMind, NASA JPL, Boston Dynamics, and other leading organizations, focused on reliable deployment outside the lab.

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  • Lead technical discovery and design integrations between robotics systems and our platform in enterprise distribution centers.
  • Build and commission control and motion logic for industrial palletizing and sortation cells, including safety and failure recovery.
  • Own the control interface layer using ROS 2, vendor SDKs, and industrial protocols to bridge vision AI output to machine action.

PackageX is building the Physical Logistics Execution Platform for enterprise teams operating across manufacturing, distribution, and retail environments. They leverage Vision AI and workflow automation to digitize and verify physical operations at the point of work.