Top Robotics Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead multidisciplinary teams delivering robotic and industrial automation products from concept through production deployment and sustainment. Manage technical integration across software, mechanical, electrical, industrial, and embedded controls teams; oversee schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and corrective actions; enforce product development processes; coordinate stakeholders and customers; and drive continuous improvement across complex programs.

Lead the System Modeling and Design Simulation organization, managing 5–10 engineers and specialists. Define modeling and simulation strategy, develop mathematical and discrete-event models, optimize robotic system designs, and guide capacity, throughput, and performance analysis. Partner with architecture, controls, mechanical, and software teams on trade studies and product decisions. Establish technical standards, mentor staff, support hiring, and communicate simulation-based recommendations to engineering leaders and executives.

Leads complex technical programs across engineering, product, software, robotics, and automation teams. Responsibilities include managing risks, priorities, dependencies, milestones, accountability, cross-functional communication, executive reporting, and program health metrics using SQL and Jira. The role drives alignment, execution, process improvement, and delivery in a fast-paced technical environment, with up to 20% travel to client and customer locations.

Leads North American sales for aerospace manufacturing automation and robotics solutions. Responsibilities include sourcing and qualifying customers, developing decision-maker relationships, presenting proposals, managing the full sales cycle, researching markets, identifying derivative products, and supporting customers at proposal and sales meetings. The role requires technical proficiency in automated manufacturing products, strong commercial and communication skills, an engineering degree, extensive customer-facing experience, an active US passport, and up to 100% travel.

Own end-to-end planning and execution of complex humanoid robotics development programs, managing scope, schedule, cost, risks, and delivery. Coordinate globally distributed hardware and software teams across systems, safety, mechanical, electrical, firmware, AI/ML, integration, test, supply chain, and related functions. Build stakeholder alignment, remove blockers, improve program processes, and guide cross-functional teams through product development and deployment.

Design and architect mechanical systems and subassemblies for a novel braid-assist robotic device, taking concepts through prototyping, design for manufacturing, and production. Collaborate with mechanical, industrial design, electrical, manufacturing, supplier, and user teams. Manage engineers, establish engineering standards, and drive hands-on design decisions focused on usability, performance, and manufacturability.

The Strategy & Execution Manager will drive cross-functional initiatives, support leadership, solve operational gaps, and enhance team alignment for business scaling.

Lead DEL-based hit identification and complementary screening efforts, develop and optimize biochemical and biophysical assays, operationalize automation-enabled screening workflows, secure and design fit-for-purpose protein constructs, and drive hit validation and progression into hit-to-lead through cross-functional collaboration with chemistry, computational, and automation teams.

The Robotics Deployment & Applications Engineer leads on-site deployments of Infinite Kitchens, coordinates technical teams, and collaborates on product development while ensuring project efficiency and addressing potential risks.

Leads LightForce’s manufacturing engineering function, including process and equipment development, automation, continuous improvement, NPI, industrialization, and process validation. Owns the manufacturing technology roadmap to improve yield, throughput, reliability, quality, and cost. Builds and manages engineering teams, directs CAPEX and external resources, partners cross-functionally on design transfer, and ensures compliance with OSHA, ISO, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Provides technical troubleshooting and assistance to AutoStore partners, handling incidents, warranty, spare parts, delivery quality, and robot repair cases. Delivers on-site support, trade show assistance, partner training, and knowledge-base content. Collaborates with Sales and R&D, maintains support KPIs, builds stakeholder relationships, and participates in weekend shifts and on-call rotations. Requires regular travel and the ability to understand complex automated fulfillment systems.

Conduct advanced research and development of Vision-Language-Action models and foundation architectures for robotic manipulation and navigation. Develop multimodal and synthetic data strategies, fine-tune large-scale models, optimize inference for real-time robotic applications, publish research at leading conferences, and collaborate with robotics and hardware teams to deploy AI models on physical platforms.

Leads and develops mechanical engineering teams designing complex semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Provides technical leadership across architecture, design reviews, validation, risk management, and product release. Partners with cross-functional teams to deliver products from concept through production, while ensuring performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and safety objectives. Coaches engineers, supports recruiting and retention, removes execution obstacles, and drives continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Own the end-to-end development of one or more robots, from initial concepts and prototyping through manufacturing, deployment, and support. Design hardware, understand system-level tradeoffs, collaborate across teams, iterate quickly and methodically, and mentor other engineers. The role requires strong hands-on mechanical engineering ability and comfort working in fast-paced startups, labs, or technical teams.

Provide Level 1 technical support for deployed autonomous manicure robots. Diagnose and resolve hardware, software, networking, and connectivity issues remotely; guide field personnel through troubleshooting; monitor system alerts; document incidents and resolutions; escalate complex problems; maintain knowledge resources; and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Field Service teams. The role includes regular Wednesday-Sunday retail-hours coverage.

Provides technical leadership for QC laboratory automation, designing and deploying liquid-handling workflows, integrated workcells, sample-management systems, and data pipelines. Supports LIMS and enterprise integrations through APIs, databases, middleware, and web services. Leads troubleshooting, validation, compliance, lifecycle management, system ownership, vendor coordination, documentation, training, and continuous improvement. The role also contributes to AI/ML-enabled laboratory workflows and mentors junior engineers.

Operate robotic systems through teleoperation interfaces, train and evaluate operators, establish QA and data-quality standards, maintain SOPs and operational tracking systems, and bridge operator feedback with engineering teams. The role investigates errors and system inconsistencies, supports data collection pipeline improvements, and translates technical guidance into practical workflows. Hands-on teleoperation is a core responsibility, with increasing ownership as the organization scales.

Lead and own cross-organizational technical programs for ML and robotics platform development, define roadmaps and milestones, remove blockers, align diverse engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform best practices to deliver scalable autonomy and infrastructure outcomes.

Lead scaling of manufacturing and field operations from prototype to multi-facility production. Own factory launches, P&L, throughput, quality, safety, workforce scaling, supply chain resilience, CI programs, and integration of MES/automation with engineering and software teams to drive repeatable, data-driven production.

Owns senior customer partnerships, account plans, customer P&Ls, profitability, governance, project delivery, roadmap discussions, service performance, escalations, and internal resource alignment. Serves as Ocado’s senior customer representative and voice of the customer while guiding strategic growth and successful adoption of automation products. Leads customer management teams and requires strong commercial, stakeholder, leadership, people-management, and automation-sector experience.

Investigate and own real-world behavior of Tutor's robotic systems across environments. Diagnose complex issues across perception, motion, hardware, and operations using logs and telemetry; drive root-cause fixes, scale improvements across the fleet, collaborate with R&D and customer teams, and build tools and playbooks to improve field debugging and reliability.

Develop, fine-tune, and deploy visual and language foundation models (e.g., SAM, DINO) to robots in the field; build cloud-based training and inference infrastructure; manage and optimize robot data flows and databases; contribute across the robotics stack including web UI and full-stack deployment.

Leads AI and robotics research initiatives from concept through proof-of-concept deployment on humanoid platforms. Manages researchers and engineers, drives work in real-time planning, human-robot interaction, adaptive motor control, and learning from demonstration, and advances teleoperation, synthetic-data, and fleet-learning strategies. Partners with hardware and software teams on sensor optimization, oversees performance and hiring, develops team talent, and ensures high-quality delivery of the AI Innovation program.

Lead design and implementation of PLC/SCADA-based control systems for automated lab equipment, integrate robotics and third-party devices, design safety PLC systems, create P&IDs and wiring schematics, manage vendors and project delivery, validate and calibrate systems, collaborate with software/IT teams, and mentor junior engineers to improve reliability and efficiency.

Design and develop high-precision electromechanical products from concept through production. Build and test prototypes, apply motion systems and controls expertise, create CAD models and documentation (Creo/SolidWorks), perform engineering analyses, apply DFM/DFA, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and support proposals and customer engagements.