Senior Autonomy Engineer - Ground Robotics

5–10 years of experience in robotics or autonomy systems

Experience shipping at least one autonomous mobile robot to production

Strong hands-on experience with ROS 2

Experience with robots operating in outdoor or unstructured environments

Health, dental, and vision insurance

3% retirement match

15 days of paid time off (PTO)

3 sick days

11 paid holidays, with 3 of those being floating holidays

Employee stock option plan

You’ve done this before — taken a robot from simulation to real-world deployment, and seen what breaks along the way.

You’ll be the technical authority on what “production-ready autonomy” means at Lucid Bots.

Deliver autonomy systems that perform reliably in real-world environments

Enable parallel development through high-quality simulation

Build and improve simulation environments that allow the team to develop and validate autonomy before hardware is finalized

Systematically close the sim-to-real gap

Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company building the world’s most productive and responsible robots. Our mission is simple: extend human reach. We design intelligent machines that take on dangerous, demanding, and repetitive work—so people don’t have to.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, we design, engineer, manufacture, and support our products in the United States. Our production-ready robots are deployed by customers around the world to improve safety, increase productivity, and elevate operational standards.

We are one of the fastest-growing manufacturing companies in the United States, recently ranked fourth nationally. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator (S19), Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others, we are scaling quickly at the intersection of AI, hardware, and real-world impact.

We’re building more than robots—we’re building the future of physical AI.

At Lucid Bots, we’re building something extraordinary - and how we work matters just as much as what we build. These values guide how we hire, grow, and show up for one another.