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Christian & Timbers · 6 hours ago

Senior Robotics Engineer

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

6+ years exp

Christian & Timbers is representing a large Physical AI company building intelligent systems that operate at scale in real-world environments. The Senior Robotics Engineer role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying robotic systems that integrate perception, planning, control, and real-time execution.

B2BBusiness DevelopmentConsulting

Responsibilities

Design and implement robotic subsystems across perception, localization, planning, and control

Develop real-time software for autonomous robots operating in complex physical environments

Integrate sensors, actuators, and compute into reliable end-to-end robotic platforms

Own system performance across latency, safety, robustness, and scalability

Build and maintain production-grade robotics software in C++ and Python

Contribute to system architecture decisions across autonomy stacks

Optimize algorithms for deployment on embedded and edge compute platforms

Support simulation, testing, and validation pipelines tied to real hardware

Partner with AI research teams to deploy learning-based models on robotic platforms

Work closely with hardware, electrical, and mechanical teams during system integration

Support field testing, debugging, and iteration on deployed systems

Qualification

Robotics Systems EngineeringC++PythonROSReal-time software developmentKinematicsDynamicsControlState estimationLearning-based roboticsReinforcement learningModel predictive controlCross-functional collaboration