Top Robotics Jobs in Boston, MA

Serves as the primary technical advisor for industrial hygiene and safety engineering initiatives. Develops hazard-control strategies, conducts exposure assessments, evaluates robotics and automation risks, supports facility modernization, and delivers onsite surveys and executive reports. Leads risk reduction projects, tracks KPIs, provides coaching and training, and advises stakeholders on regulatory and consensus standards. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel across U.S. and international customer locations.

Provides strategic technical leadership in industrial hygiene and safety engineering for a major account. Responsibilities include hazard identification, exposure assessments, risk prioritization, control evaluation, onsite industrial hygiene sampling, robotics and automation safety reviews, facility modernization support, executive reporting, KPI tracking, training, mentoring, and project leadership. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel across the United States and potentially internationally.

Provides strategic technical leadership for industrial hygiene and safety engineering programs supporting a major account. Responsibilities include hazard identification, exposure assessment, risk prioritization, control evaluation, robotics and automation safety reviews, onsite assessments, sampling analysis, facility modernization support, KPI development, executive reporting, training, mentoring, and project leadership. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel and requires expertise in occupational exposure limits, industrial hygiene methods, safety engineering, and regulatory standards.

Provides strategic and technical leadership for industrial hygiene and safety engineering programs supporting a major account. Responsibilities include hazard identification, exposure assessments, risk prioritization, control evaluation, robotics and automation safety reviews, onsite assessments, facility modernization support, executive reporting, KPI tracking, training, mentoring, and project leadership. The role is remote with up to 35% overnight travel and requires expertise in industrial hygiene sampling, occupational exposure limits, safety engineering, and regulatory standards.

Lead client engagements to optimize manufacturing and product development lifecycles using lean and Six Sigma methods, supply chain integration, PLM, and digital technologies. Manage project planning, budgeting, team coaching, feasibility and cost analyses, and drive adoption of emerging technologies to improve speed to market, reduce cost, and enhance quality.

Leads the development and enhancement of robotic product platforms from concept through launch. Owns technical roadmaps, product specifications, validation, competitive benchmarking, legacy product improvements, project timelines, and vendor coordination. Collaborates with engineering, software, UX, quality, marketing, and supply chain teams to deliver reliable, intelligent, consumer-focused robots incorporating navigation, perception, AI, connectivity, and embedded technologies.

Own the Shark Robots category strategy, roadmap, product specifications, quality standards, cost structure, sourcing strategy, go-to-market plans, budget, and resourcing. Lead and develop managers and product developers while partnering across engineering, design, marketing, testing, quality, supply chain, and executive leadership. Drive consumer-focused product decisions, breakthrough initiatives, portfolio growth, and product launches from concept through mass production.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and troubleshoots electrical systems for uncrewed undersea vehicles, sensors, and command-and-control systems. Responsibilities include analog and digital circuit design, PCB development, board bring-up, sensor integration, embedded hardware-software interfaces, system testing, documentation, and at-sea support. The role collaborates with mechanical, software, and systems engineers to deliver rugged, reliable undersea robotic platforms.

Develop and execute verification and validation tests for robotic and automation systems. Design and operate test benches, select instrumentation, analyze measurement data, evaluate performance against specifications, and produce engineering reports that guide design decisions. The role supports new product development and collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams on complex hardware and software systems.

Own customer deployments of Tutor robots across production sites. Serve as the primary technical partner, diagnose software, mechanical, and process issues, monitor fleet performance, and coordinate improvements with engineering. Build trusted relationships with operations, engineering, and maintenance teams, translate field insights into product feedback, and support expansion opportunities. The role combines hands-on robotics operations, technical troubleshooting, customer partnership, and on-site facility work.

Performs quality-control testing and troubleshooting on newly built ion implantation systems in a semiconductor manufacturing environment. Diagnoses functional issues, implements corrective actions, documents test interventions, and supports production readiness at customer sites worldwide. Works hands-on with control, vacuum, robotics, virtual machine, and ion beam subsystems while collaborating with engineering, assembly, vendor, and customer teams. Requires up to 20% international travel and may work first, second, or compressed weekend shifts.

Leads legal operations across the United States and Canada, advising on regulatory matters for production and R&D, intellectual property, disputes, commercial contracts, public policy, corporate and financing work. Manages outside counsel, legal infrastructure, governance, compliance coordination, and regional legal team growth while serving as the senior legal representative for North America.

Supports development, testing, tuning, characterization, and troubleshooting of robotic control systems. Responsibilities include optimizing motion-control parameters, evaluating servo performance and system stability, conducting verification tests, analyzing data with MATLAB, supporting software releases, and improving control algorithms. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams and assists with customer and manufacturing issue investigations.

Leads enterprise digital manufacturing strategy and smart factory transformation across multiple sites. Oversees MES, IIoT, digital twins, robotics, automation, analytics, and connected-workforce deployments to improve safety, quality, productivity, compliance, and mission readiness. Builds and leads a multidisciplinary technical team, manages roadmaps and investments, drives standardization, evaluates technology ROI, partners with operations and suppliers, and reports progress to executives.

Own supplier coordination, BOM management, material planning, manufacturing readiness, and program dependencies across hardware programs. Design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot automated test equipment, production fixtures, programming stations, sensor systems, and custom manufacturing hardware. Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, contract manufacturing, and supply-chain teams to resolve sourcing risks, engineering changes, production issues, and automation challenges from prototype through volume manufacturing.

Build and own full-stack AI platform systems: backend services, data pipelines, frontends, and cloud infrastructure. Integrate LLM agents with lab data, instruments, and databases; prototype and harden agentic workflows; write well-tested code; mentor teammates and drive engineering best practices in a research-focused environment.

Design and build custom scientific instruments across mechanical, electronics, and firmware domains; develop and execute NGS workflows and assays; maintain sequencing QC; troubleshoot experiments and validate assays with biologists; write protocols/SOPs; set up and maintain lab instrumentation; iterate prototypes to production and communicate technical tradeoffs to team and stakeholders.

Provides independent safety assurance for robotic systems across hardware, software, firmware, controls, AI/ML, perception, actuation, and human-robot interaction. Develops safety strategies, requirements, safety cases, V&V plans, acceptance criteria, risk analyses, and objective evidence. Evaluates releases, model and hardware changes, investigates incidents, supports corrective actions, and translates regulations into engineering processes. Partners cross-functionally on safety reviews, certification, audits, and readiness decisions for autonomous mobile robots.

Leads complex automation and robotics programs from product development through customer-site deployment and operational handoff. Manages scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, technical integration, commissioning, acceptance, and sustainment across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, construction, vendors, and customers. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, communicates with executives, resolves cross-functional issues, maintains project artifacts, and drives product lifecycle and process improvements.

Leads a multidisciplinary wet lab engineering team developing bespoke instruments, robotics, automation, software, and integrated experimental systems. Sets technical vision, advances autonomous laboratory operations, partners with scientists and AI/ML teams, translates scientific needs into deployed capabilities, and builds a culture of technical excellence. The role supports biotechnology and protein drug discovery by connecting physical experimentation with data and computation.

Tenure-track and tenured faculty will teach undergraduate and graduate courses, mentor students and postdoctoral researchers, conduct internationally recognized and independently funded AI or computer science research, and provide university and professional service. Research may focus on physical AI, human-centered AI, AI and software engineering, or AI safety, security, and alignment. Candidates will also contribute to inclusive teaching, experiential learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration across Northeastern’s colleges and research institutes.

Develop and apply physical AI, robotics, and autonomous systems for healthcare, communication sciences, and rehabilitation. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, leading an independent externally funded research program, developing technologies such as assistive systems and wearable sensors, mentoring students, and contributing to departmental, college, and university service. Candidates will collaborate across health sciences, engineering, design, and computing while supporting global student populations.

Lead development and technical delivery of maritime autonomy capabilities for USVs, UUVs, and cooperating UAVs. Design motion planning, localization, tracking, safety assurance, COLREGS-compliant behaviors, and heterogeneous multi-agent collaboration. Build high-performance, well-tested software, integrate it onto real platforms, support deployment and demonstrations, analyze mission logs, and contribute to R&D roadmaps. Collaborate across perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational test teams while helping customers define requirements and technical approaches.

Develop and deploy autonomy software for unmanned surface, underwater, and aerial vehicles in maritime missions. Responsibilities include motion planning, localization and tracking, safety assurance, COLREGS adherence, multi-agent coordination, distributed optimization, rigorous software testing, platform integration, deployment support, mission-log analysis, and autonomy R&D. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, customer and demonstration support, roadmap development, and mentoring junior engineers. Travel is typically approximately 25% annually.

Lead technical direction for maritime autonomy capabilities across multiple programs. Develop motion planning, localization, tracking, safe maritime behaviors, COLREGS-compliant operations, and heterogeneous multi-agent collaboration for USVs, UUVs, and UAVs. Build and integrate high-performance, rigorously tested software; support deployment, vehicle testing, demonstrations, and mission-log analysis. Mentor engineers, guide architecture and roadmaps, research new algorithms, and collaborate across perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational test teams. Travel is typically about 25%.