Staff Robotics System Engineer

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Staff Robotics System Engineer in USA

Coupang
Full time
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USA
09/29/2026
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Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, integration, and deployment of full-stack autonomous robotics systems across perception, planning/control, hardware, and operational workflows.
Define system requirements, interfaces, data contracts, SLAs/SLOs, metrics, and architecture decisions for robotics subsystems.
Design and implement autonomy control orchestration and behavior trees using Groot and ROS2.
Own robotics infrastructure including drivers, ROS/ROS2 middleware, simulation environments, system tooling, deployment pipelines, containerization, and edge compute optimization.
Integrate robotics systems with Coupang WMS through APIs and bidirectional data models.
Develop production-quality robotics software and simulation, testing, validation, monitoring, observability, and alerting workflows.
Debug hardware-software integration issues, conduct root cause analysis, and improve system safety, robustness, latency, repeatability, and task success.
Contribute to roadmaps, code reviews, documentation, engineering standards, and mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
At least 8 years of hands-on robotics systems engineering experience with increasing scope and ownership.
Deep proficiency in Python for real-time and systems-level robotics development.
Experience integrating cameras, sensors, PLCs, and other hardware peripherals into production robotics systems.
Strong experience with the ROS/ROS2 ecosystem, including custom message types, services, nodes, and lifecycle management.
Experience integrating and debugging complete robotic systems spanning software, sensors, actuators, middleware, simulation, and hardware.
Real-world industrial robotics experience deploying, validating, or supporting robots in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, inspection, service, or comparable environments.
Experience with edge AI inference pipelines, GPUs, AI inference servers such as Triton or vLLM, GPU-accelerated planning, optimization, model predictive control, whole-body control, or real-time trajectory generation is preferred.
Familiarity with Docker, containerized robotics deployments, CI/CD systems, DevOps practices, observability tools, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or distributed tracing is preferred.
Understanding of computer vision and perception system requirements and experience in warehouse automation, industrial robotics, or logistics environments are preferred.

Benefits

Base pay ranges from $164K/year to $282K/year, with annual bonus eligibility of 0–20% of base salary.
Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, flexible spending, health savings, employee assistance, and 401(k) benefits are provided.
The role includes 18–21 days of paid time off based on tenure, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, and pre-tax commuter benefits.
A free electric car charging station is available at the Mountain View location.

Salary: $164k - $282k/yr

Coupang

Coupang is a technology and Fortune 150 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CPNG) that provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming, and fintech services to customers around the world under brands that include Coupang, Eats, Play, Rocket Now, and Farfetch.

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