Domain 9
Robotics
Develop and operate physical machines that extend human reach, improve safety, increase productive capacity, and perform work in environments that are dangerous, remote, repetitive, or physically demanding.
230 careers in this catalog
Browse careers in this domain
A curated, non-exhaustive list of established, transforming, and emerging roles. Select a career for a short summary — full career records are added over time.
Robotics Strategy, Leadership, and Systems Architecture
#1
Robotics Systems Architect
Designs complete robotic systems by integrating mechanics, electronics, software, sensing, artificial intelligence, power, safety, maintenance, and human oversight.
#2
Chief Robotics Officer
Guides robotics strategy, investment, governance, workforce preparation, safety, and deployment across an organization.
#3
Robotics Transformation Strategist
Identifies where robotics can improve safety, capability, access, and productivity while preserving human dignity and meaningful work.
#4
Robotics Portfolio Manager
Balances research, platforms, deployment, vendors, maintenance, safety, workforce, and lifecycle investment across robotics programs.
#5
Robotics Operating Model Designer
Defines decision rights, supervision, escalation, maintenance, incident response, and accountability for organizations using robots at scale.
#6
Public-Interest Robotics Director
Leads robotics programs around accessibility, safety, public benefit, environmental stewardship, and equitable access.
#7
Robotics Capability Planner
Forecasts future needs for robot types, facilities, technicians, data, compute, energy, parts, and training.
#8
Robotics Vendor and Dependency Strategist
Evaluates suppliers, proprietary platforms, parts availability, cybersecurity, service contracts, interoperability, and exit pathways.
#9
Robotics Readiness Assessor
Determines whether a site, workforce, workflow, safety culture, infrastructure, and maintenance system are prepared for robotic deployment.
#10
Robotics Stewardship Executive
Holds senior responsibility for ensuring robotic systems serve legitimate human and ecological purposes under accountable human authority.
Core Robotics Engineering and Mechatronics
#11
Robotics Engineer
Designs, builds, programs, tests, and maintains robots that sense, move, manipulate, communicate, and act in the physical world.
#12
Mechatronics Engineer
Integrates mechanical systems, electronics, controls, sensors, software, and actuators into intelligent machines.
#13
Robotics Mechanical Engineer
Designs frames, joints, transmissions, mechanisms, end effectors, housings, and structures for robotic systems.
#14
Robotics Electrical Engineer
Designs power distribution, motor drives, wiring, sensing, communications, protection, and embedded electronics for robots.
#15
Robotics Controls Engineer
Develops feedback, motion, stability, trajectory, force, and system-control algorithms for reliable robotic behavior.
#16
Robotics Embedded Systems Engineer
Builds low-level hardware and firmware that connect sensors, actuators, processors, safety devices, and communications.
#17
Robotics Software Engineer
Creates perception, planning, control, simulation, diagnostics, interfaces, and fleet software for robotic systems.
#18
Robotics Integration Engineer
Connects robots with tools, machines, software, facilities, sensors, networks, and human workflows so the overall system functions.
#19
Robotics Prototype Engineer
Rapidly builds and tests new mechanisms, electronics, software, and physical concepts before full-scale product development.
#20
Robotics Reliability Engineer
Improves robot durability, fault tolerance, maintainability, recovery, and performance across repeated real-world use.
Robot Perception, Navigation, and World Understanding
#21
Robotic Perception Engineer
Develops systems that interpret cameras, depth sensors, radar, lidar, touch, sound, and other signals to understand surroundings.
#22
Robot Vision Engineer
Builds visual detection, recognition, tracking, inspection, localization, and scene-understanding systems for robots.
#23
Robot Localization Engineer
Determines a robot’s position and orientation using maps, sensors, landmarks, signals, and motion estimates.
#24
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Engineer
Develops systems that build maps while estimating robot position in unknown or changing environments.
#25
Robot Navigation Engineer
Creates route planning, obstacle avoidance, motion coordination, recovery, and destination-reaching behavior.
#26
Robotic Scene Understanding Researcher
Studies how robots identify objects, people, surfaces, activities, hazards, affordances, and spatial relationships.
#27
Tactile Perception Engineer
Develops sensors and models that let robots detect contact, pressure, texture, slip, force, and object properties through touch.
#28
Robotic Auditory Perception Engineer
Builds systems that interpret speech, alarms, machinery sounds, environmental cues, and spatial audio.
#29
Multisensor Fusion Engineer
Combines imperfect data from many sensors into a more reliable understanding of robot state and environment.
#30
Robot Uncertainty Modeling Specialist
Designs methods that represent what a robot does not know and trigger caution, clarification, or human assistance.
Manipulation, Grasping, and Physical Dexterity
#31
Robotic Manipulation Engineer
Develops systems that reach, grasp, move, assemble, open, cut, pour, sort, and use tools in varied environments.
#32
Robotic Grasping Researcher
Studies how robots select stable, safe, adaptive grasps for objects with different shapes, materials, and uncertainty.
#33
Robotic End-Effector Engineer
Designs grippers, hands, suction tools, cutters, welders, sensors, and interchangeable tools for robot tasks.
#34
Dexterous Robotic Hand Engineer
Creates multi-fingered robotic hands capable of delicate, varied, and tool-using manipulation.
#35
Force-Control Robotics Engineer
Develops control systems that regulate contact forces during assembly, surgery, polishing, handling, and collaboration.
#36
Robotic Tool-Use Researcher
Studies how robots can understand, select, adapt, and safely use tools designed for people or machines.
#37
Robotic Assembly Process Designer
Creates sequences, fixtures, sensing, tolerance strategies, and recovery methods for automated assembly.
#38
Flexible Object Manipulation Engineer
Builds robots that handle cloth, cables, food, plants, biological tissue, packaging, and other deformable materials.
#39
Micro-Manipulation Robotics Engineer
Designs robotic systems for extremely small components, cells, electronics, optics, and laboratory procedures.
#40
Robotic Handling Safety Specialist
Ensures robot grasping and manipulation do not crush, drop, contaminate, injure, or damage people, goods, or environments.
Industrial Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing
#41
Industrial Robotics Engineer
Designs robotic systems for machining, welding, assembly, coating, inspection, packaging, and material handling.
#42
Robotic Welding Engineer
Develops automated welding cells, procedures, sensing, quality controls, fixtures, and safety systems.
#43
Robotic Machining Engineer
Integrates robots with cutting, drilling, grinding, polishing, trimming, and hybrid manufacturing processes.
#44
Robotic Quality Inspection Engineer
Builds automated sensing and analysis systems that detect dimensional, surface, assembly, and material defects.
#45
Flexible Manufacturing Robotics Specialist
Designs robot cells that can change products, tools, tasks, and workflows without costly complete reconfiguration.
#46
Collaborative Robot Applications Engineer
Develops tasks where robots safely share workspaces, tools, timing, and responsibilities with people.
#47
Robotic Production Line Technician
Installs, calibrates, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs robots operating within manufacturing lines.
#48
Industrial Robot Programmer
Creates motion, sequencing, sensing, tool, safety, and recovery logic for production robots.
#49
Factory Robot Fleet Manager
Coordinates utilization, maintenance, software, spare parts, performance, safety, and upgrades across many industrial robots.
#50
Robotic Remanufacturing Engineer
Uses and designs robots to inspect, disassemble, clean, restore, and reassemble used products and components.
Construction, Infrastructure, and Building Robotics
#51
Construction Robotics Engineer
Develops robots for excavation, layout, lifting, printing, masonry, inspection, finishing, and demolition.
#52
Robotic Earthmoving Systems Engineer
Designs autonomous or remote excavators, loaders, graders, compactors, and haul systems for construction and mining.
#53
Robotic Masonry Specialist
Develops robots that place brick, block, stone, mortar, and structural units with precision and safety.
#54
Robotic Building Printing Engineer
Creates large-scale additive systems for walls, structures, formwork, and habitat components.
#55
Infrastructure Inspection Robotics Engineer
Builds robots that inspect bridges, tunnels, pipes, towers, dams, facades, and hard-to-reach structures.
#56
Pipe and Sewer Robotics Technician
Operates and maintains crawling, swimming, and repair robots used inside buried water and sanitation networks.
#57
Robotic Demolition and Deconstruction Engineer
Designs systems that dismantle structures safely while separating reusable materials and controlling hazards.
#58
Building Maintenance Robotics Specialist
Deploys robots for facade cleaning, window washing, inspection, duct service, floor care, and routine maintenance.
#59
Construction Robot Site Supervisor
Coordinates robotic equipment, human crews, work zones, sequencing, safety, and exception handling on active sites.
#60
Subsurface Construction Robotics Engineer
Develops robots for tunneling, underground mapping, utility repair, hazardous access, and confined-space work.
Agricultural, Forestry, and Food-System Robotics
#61
Agricultural Robotics Engineer
Designs robots for planting, weeding, harvesting, pruning, spraying, monitoring, and farm material handling.
#62
Autonomous Farm Vehicle Engineer
Builds self-driving tractors, harvesters, carts, and field platforms that operate safely around people, animals, and crops.
#63
Robotic Harvesting Engineer
Develops perception, grasping, cutting, and handling systems for delicate crops with variable shape and ripeness.
#64
Precision Weeding Robotics Specialist
Creates robots that identify and remove weeds mechanically, thermally, or with highly targeted treatment.
#65
Greenhouse Robotics Engineer
Designs robots for planting, monitoring, pollination, pruning, harvesting, cleaning, and logistics in controlled environments.
#66
Livestock Robotics Specialist
Develops robots for feeding, milking, monitoring, cleaning, herding support, and animal-health observation.
#67
Forestry Robotics Engineer
Builds robots for planting, thinning, selective harvesting, wildfire prevention, mapping, and forest-health monitoring.
#68
Food Processing Robotics Engineer
Develops hygienic robots for cutting, sorting, cooking, packing, inspection, and cleaning in food production.
#69
Agricultural Robot Field Technician
Maintains sensors, motors, batteries, tools, communications, navigation, and software on farm robots.
#70
Agroecological Robotics Designer
Creates robots that support regenerative practices, biodiversity, soil health, mixed cropping, and minimal chemical dependence.
Healthcare, Surgical, and Rehabilitation Robotics
#71
Medical Robotics Engineer
Designs robotic systems used in diagnosis, surgery, rehabilitation, care, logistics, and clinical support.
#72
Surgical Robotics Engineer
Develops robotic instruments, controls, imaging, interfaces, safety systems, and precision mechanisms for surgery.
#73
Surgical Robotics Clinical Specialist
Supports clinicians through setup, training, procedure planning, troubleshooting, and safe use of surgical robots.
#74
Rehabilitation Robotics Engineer
Creates robotic devices that help people recover movement, strength, coordination, and function after illness or injury.
#75
Robotic Prosthetics Engineer
Designs powered prosthetic limbs and interfaces that restore mobility, dexterity, sensation, and personal control.
#76
Exoskeleton Systems Engineer
Develops wearable robotic systems for rehabilitation, mobility, industrial assistance, and injury reduction.
#77
Hospital Logistics Robotics Specialist
Deploys robots for medicine, meals, linens, waste, supplies, specimens, and internal transport in healthcare facilities.
#78
Clinical Robot Safety Engineer
Identifies and controls mechanical, software, electrical, cybersecurity, human-factors, and infection risks in medical robots.
#79
Robotic Therapy Systems Designer
Creates supervised robotic tools for physical, occupational, speech, cognitive, and developmental therapies.
#80
Medical Robot Maintenance Technician
Inspects, calibrates, repairs, sterilizes, updates, and documents clinical robotic equipment.
Assistive, Personal, and Independent-Living Robotics
#81
Assistive Robotics Engineer
Designs robots that help people with mobility, communication, household tasks, self-care, and independent living.
#82
Home Care Robotics Specialist
Integrates robots into homes for lifting, reminders, monitoring, fetch-and-carry tasks, mobility, and caregiver support.
#83
Robotic Mobility Aid Designer
Creates intelligent wheelchairs, walkers, transfer devices, navigation aids, and powered mobility systems.
#84
Personal Assistance Robot Trainer
Configures and teaches robots to support an individual’s routines, preferences, abilities, communication, and home environment.
#85
Aging-in-Place Robotics Coordinator
Matches older adults with appropriate robotic tools while coordinating safety, privacy, maintenance, family, and care teams.
#86
Domestic Robotics Engineer
Develops household robots for cleaning, cooking support, laundry, organization, maintenance, and daily assistance.
#87
Accessible Robot Interface Designer
Creates voice, touch, gesture, switch, eye-gaze, and adaptive controls for people with varied abilities.
#88
Care Robot Ethics Specialist
Evaluates autonomy, consent, privacy, emotional attachment, dignity, substitution of human care, and family responsibilities.
#89
Assistive Robot Service Technician
Installs, repairs, customizes, updates, and supports robots used in homes, schools, clinics, and community settings.
#90
Independent-Living Robotics Case Manager
Coordinates assessment, funding, training, support, maintenance, and outcomes for people using assistive robots.
Logistics, Warehousing, and Delivery Robotics
#91
Warehouse Robotics Engineer
Designs robots for storage, retrieval, picking, sorting, packing, transport, and inventory movement.
#92
Autonomous Mobile Robot Engineer
Develops self-navigating mobile platforms for factories, warehouses, hospitals, campuses, and public facilities.
#93
Robotic Picking Engineer
Creates perception, grasping, motion, and exception handling for robots selecting varied goods from bins and shelves.
#94
Parcel Sorting Robotics Specialist
Designs high-speed systems that identify, route, divert, inspect, and handle packages accurately.
#95
Autonomous Forklift Engineer
Builds and deploys self-driving lift vehicles that move pallets safely around workers and infrastructure.
#96
Delivery Robot Systems Engineer
Develops sidewalk, road, aerial, or indoor robots that transport goods to final destinations.
#97
Robotic Fulfillment Operations Supervisor
Monitors automated fulfillment, handles exceptions, coordinates people and machines, and protects safety and service quality.
#98
Warehouse Robot Fleet Technician
Maintains batteries, motors, sensors, wheels, lifts, networks, software, and safety systems across robot fleets.
#99
Human–Robot Warehouse Workflow Designer
Designs tasks, zones, pacing, interfaces, and responsibilities so automation improves work without creating unsafe pressure.
#100
Reverse Logistics Robotics Engineer
Develops robots for returns inspection, sorting, disassembly, refurbishment, and materials recovery.
Aerial, Marine, and Underwater Robotics
#101
Aerial Robotics Engineer
Designs drones and autonomous aircraft for inspection, mapping, delivery, agriculture, emergencies, and science.
#102
Drone Autonomy Engineer
Develops navigation, perception, planning, coordination, and fallback behavior for uncrewed aircraft.
#103
Drone Payload Systems Engineer
Integrates cameras, sensors, delivery containers, communications, sampling tools, and specialized equipment with aerial platforms.
#104
Marine Robotics Engineer
Designs autonomous and remotely operated vessels for transport, inspection, science, security, and environmental work.
#105
Underwater Robotics Engineer
Builds submersible robots for pipelines, cables, reefs, research, salvage, inspection, and deep-ocean operations.
#106
Remotely Operated Vehicle Pilot
Controls underwater robots using cameras, sonar, manipulators, navigation, and mission procedures in challenging environments.
#107
Autonomous Surface Vessel Engineer
Develops self-navigating boats for monitoring, mapping, transport, patrol, and scientific missions.
#108
Ocean Sampling Robotics Specialist
Designs robots that collect water, sediment, biological, chemical, and acoustic data across marine ecosystems.
#109
Marine Robot Maintenance Technician
Maintains pressure housings, thrusters, batteries, seals, sonar, communications, sensors, and manipulators.
#110
Aerial and Marine Robot Traffic Coordinator
Manages shared low-altitude and waterway operations among autonomous systems, people, wildlife, and public infrastructure.
Environmental, Conservation, and Circular-System Robotics
#111
Environmental Robotics Engineer
Develops robots for monitoring, cleanup, restoration, sampling, and intervention in natural and industrial environments.
#112
Recycling Robotics Engineer
Builds robots that identify, sort, separate, dismantle, and recover materials from mixed waste streams.
#113
Hazardous Waste Robotics Specialist
Develops remote systems for handling toxic, radioactive, explosive, infectious, or unstable materials.
#114
Ecosystem Restoration Robotics Engineer
Creates robots for planting, erosion control, invasive-species removal, habitat repair, and long-term ecological monitoring.
#115
Wildlife Monitoring Robotics Specialist
Deploys quiet, low-disturbance robotic systems to observe animals, migration, nesting, health, and habitat conditions.
#116
Ocean Cleanup Robotics Engineer
Develops autonomous systems that collect debris, map pollution, recover fishing gear, and protect marine life.
#117
Landfill Robotics Specialist
Uses robots for inspection, gas monitoring, compaction, sorting, fire detection, and recovery in hazardous landfill environments.
#118
Circular Disassembly Robotics Engineer
Creates robots that identify fasteners, materials, hazards, and reusable components during product disassembly.
#119
Environmental Robot Field Technician
Deploys, calibrates, repairs, recovers, and maintains robotic systems in remote ecosystems and contaminated sites.
#120
Ecological Robotics Impact Assessor
Evaluates whether robotic activity disturbs wildlife, soils, waterways, habitats, or community stewardship practices.
Emergency Response, Public Safety, and Hazardous-Environment Robotics
#121
Search-and-Rescue Robotics Engineer
Designs robots that locate, communicate with, and assist people in collapsed, flooded, burning, remote, or dangerous environments.
#122
Disaster Robotics Operator
Deploys ground, aerial, marine, and climbing robots for mapping, search, assessment, communication, and supply delivery during emergencies.
#123
Firefighting Robotics Engineer
Develops robots for heat exposure, hose delivery, ventilation, reconnaissance, hazardous entry, and wildfire support.
#124
Bomb Disposal Robotics Specialist
Designs or operates robots that inspect, manipulate, disrupt, and remove explosive hazards while keeping people at distance.
#125
Nuclear Response Robotics Engineer
Builds radiation-tolerant systems for inspection, cleanup, repair, sampling, and decommissioning.
#126
Chemical Incident Robotics Specialist
Deploys robots for gas detection, sampling, containment, valve operation, mapping, and remote intervention during chemical emergencies.
#127
Emergency Supply Robotics Coordinator
Organizes drones, mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, and human teams to move medicine, water, power, and equipment during crises.
#128
Public Safety Robot Policy Specialist
Creates rules for surveillance, force, privacy, evidence, human authority, transparency, and acceptable use of public-safety robots.
#129
Hazardous Robot Operations Supervisor
Approves missions, monitors conditions, manages human safety, and retains shutdown authority during dangerous robotic operations.
#130
Disaster Robotics Exercise Designer
Creates realistic training scenarios that test robots, operators, communications, logistics, agencies, and community coordination before emergencies.
Human–Robot Interaction, Collaboration, and Social Robotics
#131
Human–Robot Interaction Researcher
Studies how people understand, trust, control, teach, collaborate with, and respond emotionally to robots.
#132
Human–Robot Collaboration Designer
Designs shared tasks, spaces, signals, controls, responsibilities, and recovery procedures for people and robots working together.
#133
Social Robotics Engineer
Builds robots that communicate through speech, expression, gesture, movement, and socially understandable behavior.
#134
Robot Behavior Designer
Creates movement, timing, expression, communication, and interaction patterns that make robot intentions legible and appropriate.
#135
Robot Trust Calibration Specialist
Helps users form appropriately limited trust by communicating capability, uncertainty, limitations, and human oversight.
#136
Robotic Teammate Workflow Designer
Structures how robots receive assignments, report progress, request help, explain failures, and coordinate with human teams.
#137
Robot Communication Interface Engineer
Designs voice, visual, haptic, gesture, light, and screen interfaces for human-robot communication.
#138
Culturally Responsive Robotics Designer
Adapts robot appearance, behavior, language, distance, gesture, and interaction norms to different communities and cultures.
#139
Child–Robot Interaction Specialist
Designs and evaluates robots used with children for learning, therapy, play, care, and communication.
#140
Robot Social Impact Researcher
Studies how robots change relationships, work, institutions, public space, culture, inequality, and expectations of care.
Soft Robotics, Bio-Inspired Systems, and Novel Materials
#141
Soft Robotics Engineer
Designs compliant robots made from flexible materials that can safely deform, grip, move, and interact with delicate environments.
#142
Bio-Inspired Robotics Researcher
Studies animals, plants, cells, and ecosystems to develop new mechanisms, movement, sensing, and adaptive behavior.
#143
Robotic Materials Scientist
Develops smart, flexible, self-healing, responsive, conductive, and lightweight materials for future robots.
#144
Artificial Muscle Engineer
Creates actuators that mimic biological muscle using polymers, fluids, shape-memory materials, pneumatics, or electroactive systems.
#145
Continuum Robotics Engineer
Builds flexible, snake-like, tentacle-like, or catheter-like robots for confined spaces and delicate tasks.
#146
Robotic Skin Engineer
Develops flexible sensing surfaces that detect pressure, temperature, texture, damage, and human contact.
#147
Self-Healing Robot Systems Researcher
Creates robots that detect damage, compensate, reconfigure, or repair components to continue operating.
#148
Morphing Robot Engineer
Designs robots that change shape, stiffness, locomotion mode, or tool configuration for different environments.
#149
Biohybrid Robotics Researcher
Combines living cells, tissues, organisms, or biological components with engineered robotic systems under strict ethical safeguards.
#150
Biomimetic Locomotion Engineer
Develops walking, crawling, swimming, flying, climbing, and burrowing systems inspired by biological movement.
Swarm Robotics, Collective Intelligence, and Distributed Autonomy
#151
Swarm Robotics Researcher
Studies how many simple robots can coordinate to perform exploration, construction, logistics, agriculture, and emergency tasks.
#152
Multi-Robot Coordination Engineer
Develops allocation, communication, collision avoidance, cooperation, and recovery across teams of robots.
#153
Distributed Robot Fleet Architect
Designs scalable systems for identity, communication, task assignment, updates, monitoring, and control across large robot populations.
#154
Swarm Safety Engineer
Prevents cascading errors, emergent hazards, congestion, uncontrolled replication, and unsafe collective behavior.
#155
Collective Robot Decision Scientist
Studies voting, negotiation, consensus, specialization, and conflict resolution among autonomous machines.
#156
Swarm Agriculture Systems Engineer
Deploys coordinated fleets for planting, monitoring, weeding, pollination, harvesting, and soil care.
#157
Swarm Construction Engineer
Develops teams of robots that assemble structures, move materials, prepare sites, and repair infrastructure.
#158
Distributed Environmental Monitoring Engineer
Coordinates many low-cost robots or sensors to observe ecosystems, pollution, weather, water, and biodiversity.
#159
Swarm Mission Operations Supervisor
Monitors collective robotic missions, handles anomalies, changes priorities, and retains human shutdown authority.
#160
Robot Collective Accountability Researcher
Studies how responsibility, evidence, causation, and recourse should work when outcomes emerge from many interacting robots.
Robot Safety, Verification, Cybersecurity, and Incident Investigation
#161
Robotics Safety Engineer
Identifies and controls mechanical, electrical, software, behavioral, cybersecurity, ergonomic, and environmental hazards in robotic systems.
#162
Robot Functional Safety Engineer
Designs verified safety functions, interlocks, limits, emergency stops, redundancy, diagnostics, and safe states.
#163
Robotics Verification Engineer
Uses testing, simulation, formal methods, and evidence to determine whether robot behavior meets requirements.
#164
Robot Cybersecurity Engineer
Protects robot controls, sensors, communications, updates, identity, tools, data, and fleet platforms from attack.
#165
Adversarial Robotics Evaluator
Tests robots under deception, sensor interference, malicious inputs, unusual environments, and coordinated attack.
#166
Robot Fail-Safe Systems Engineer
Designs robots to stop, retreat, release, isolate, or degrade safely when components, software, communications, or power fail.
#167
Robotics Incident Investigator
Reconstructs sensor data, software, hardware, maintenance, human decisions, environment, and organizational causes after failures.
#168
Robot Safety Case Specialist
Builds structured arguments and evidence showing why a robot is acceptably safe for a defined use and environment.
#169
Robotics Emergency Shutdown Engineer
Creates tested mechanisms and procedures for stopping, isolating, recovering, and restarting robots safely.
#170
Robotics Assurance Auditor
Independently examines robot design, testing, operations, maintenance, cybersecurity, incidents, and organizational controls.
Robot Ethics, Rights, Governance, and Public Accountability
#171
Robotics Ethics Specialist
Evaluates dignity, safety, privacy, surveillance, labor, care, force, environmental impact, and human responsibility in robotic systems.
#172
Robot Governance Policy Analyst
Develops laws, standards, licensing, liability, reporting, and oversight for robotic systems and autonomous machines.
#173
Robotic Force and Restraint Policy Specialist
Defines strict limits, human authority, evidence, accountability, and recourse for robots capable of physical coercion.
#174
Robot Privacy and Surveillance Specialist
Assesses cameras, microphones, location, biometrics, home data, workplace monitoring, and public-space observation by robots.
#175
Robotic Labor Transition Specialist
Helps workers, employers, educators, and communities adapt to changing tasks without abandoning people displaced by automation.
#176
Robot Liability and Responsibility Analyst
Clarifies responsibility among designers, manufacturers, owners, operators, software providers, and institutions after harm.
#177
Robotics Public Ombudsperson
Receives complaints, investigates harms, explains systems, recommends remedies, and represents people affected by robots.
#178
Robot Transparency and Disclosure Officer
Ensures people know when they are interacting with a robot, what it records, who controls it, and how to seek help or recourse.
#179
Robot Moral Status Researcher
Studies whether future robotic or artificial systems could possess morally relevant experience and how uncertainty should be handled.
#180
Robotics Stewardship and MQ Advisor
Helps institutions evaluate whether robotic capability serves wise, humane, and morally responsible purposes.
Robotics Manufacturing, Supply Chains, and Lifecycle Stewardship
#181
Robot Manufacturing Engineer
Designs production systems for robot frames, electronics, actuators, sensors, batteries, wiring, assembly, testing, and calibration.
#182
Robotics Component Engineer
Develops motors, gears, bearings, sensors, processors, connectors, brakes, and other specialized robot components.
#183
Actuator Manufacturing Specialist
Produces and verifies electric, hydraulic, pneumatic, compliant, and novel actuators used to move robots.
#184
Robot Sensor Manufacturing Engineer
Develops production and calibration methods for cameras, lidar, force, tactile, inertial, proximity, and environmental sensors.
#185
Robotics Supply Chain Resilience Analyst
Maps critical parts, materials, suppliers, geographic concentration, substitution options, and recovery pathways.
#186
Robot Repairability Engineer
Designs modular access, diagnostics, replaceable components, service tools, parts support, and documentation for long robot life.
#187
Robot Remanufacturing Specialist
Restores used robots through inspection, repair, replacement, recalibration, software support, and recertification.
#188
Robotics Battery Lifecycle Specialist
Manages battery design, charging, health, replacement, second use, fire prevention, collection, and recycling.
#189
Robotics Material Circularity Engineer
Reduces virgin material use and improves disassembly, reuse, remanufacturing, and recovery of robot components.
#190
Robotics Product Lifecycle Manager
Coordinates requirements, design, sourcing, manufacturing, deployment, maintenance, updates, recovery, and retirement.
Robot Operations, Maintenance, Field Service, and Fleet Management
#191
Robotics Operations Manager
Coordinates deployment, scheduling, operators, safety, maintenance, data, facilities, vendors, and service outcomes across robotic systems.
#192
Robot Fleet Manager
Manages utilization, software, batteries, maintenance, performance, incidents, parts, and upgrades across many robots.
#193
Robotics Field Service Engineer
Travels to customer or mission sites to install, diagnose, repair, upgrade, and validate complex robotic systems.
#194
Robot Maintenance Technician
Performs inspection, cleaning, lubrication, replacement, calibration, testing, and repair of robotic equipment.
#195
Robotics Calibration Specialist
Ensures sensors, joints, tools, coordinate systems, force limits, and navigation remain accurate and traceable.
#196
Robot Software Update Manager
Coordinates secure testing, release, deployment, rollback, compatibility, and documentation of robot software changes.
#197
Robotics Spare Parts Coordinator
Maintains critical inventories, supplier relationships, repair options, substitutions, and emergency availability for robot fleets.
#198
Robot Remote Support Specialist
Diagnoses issues through logs, video, telemetry, operator guidance, and secure remote access without unnecessary travel.
#199
Robot Performance Analyst
Tracks productivity, quality, energy, downtime, safety, human impact, and mission outcomes to guide improvement.
#200
Robotics Decommissioning Specialist
Safely removes robots, credentials, data, batteries, hazardous materials, software dependencies, and organizational reliance.
Robotics Simulation, Digital Twins, Data, and Artificial Intelligence
#201
Robotics Simulation Engineer
Creates virtual environments, physics, sensors, robots, scenarios, and tests for development and training.
#202
Robot Digital Twin Engineer
Builds synchronized virtual models of robots, tools, environments, maintenance, and operations for planning and diagnosis.
#203
Synthetic Robotics Data Engineer
Generates simulated sensor data, rare events, environments, and labeled examples for training robotic models.
#204
Robotics Data Engineer
Builds pipelines for telemetry, sensor streams, maintenance, incidents, maps, tasks, and fleet performance.
#205
Robot Learning Engineer
Develops systems that learn motion, manipulation, navigation, adaptation, and decision-making from data and experience.
#206
Simulation-to-Reality Researcher
Studies how policies and models trained in simulation can transfer safely to physical robots.
#207
Robotics Reinforcement Learning Engineer
Builds systems that learn sequential physical behavior through reward, interaction, and constrained exploration.
#208
Robot Foundation Model Engineer
Develops large reusable models that connect language, vision, action, control, and physical knowledge across robot types.
#209
Robotics Dataset Curator
Collects, documents, balances, licenses, and maintains sensor, action, environment, failure, and human-interaction datasets.
#210
Physical Artificial Intelligence Evaluator
Tests whether learned systems can act safely and reliably under real-world variation, uncertainty, and human presence.
Education, Apprenticeships, Workforce Development, and Public Literacy
#211
Robotics Educator
Teaches mechanics, electronics, programming, controls, artificial intelligence, safety, ethics, and practical robot-building.
#212
Robotics Curriculum Designer
Creates coherent pathways from foundational science and trades to advanced robotics specializations.
#213
Robotics Apprenticeship Coordinator
Connects learners, employers, mentors, colleges, unions, projects, credentials, and paid practical experience.
#214
Robotics Laboratory Instructor
Supervises hands-on learning with robots, tools, testing, troubleshooting, safety, and team projects.
#215
Robotics Technician Instructor
Prepares learners for installation, calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, networking, and safe operation of robots.
#216
Robotics Safety Trainer
Teaches hazard recognition, safe zones, lockout, emergency stops, human-robot interaction, cybersecurity, and incident response.
#217
Community Robotics Learning Center Manager
Provides local access to robots, tools, instruction, repair, experimentation, competitions, and career pathways.
#218
Robotics Career Pathway Designer
Maps certificates, apprenticeships, associate degrees, university programs, transitions, and lifelong learning across robotics careers.
#219
Robotics Public Literacy Specialist
Helps communities understand robot capabilities, limitations, rights, risks, labor impacts, and governance choices.
#220
Human–Robot Partnership Coach
Helps workers and organizations learn how to collaborate with robots while preserving judgment, dignity, and meaningful responsibility.
Space Robotics, Planetary Systems, and Long-Term Exploration
#221
Space Robotics Engineer
Designs robotic systems for launch, orbit, docking, exploration, maintenance, construction, science, and settlement support.
#222
Planetary Rover Engineer
Develops mobile robots that navigate, sample, map, drill, inspect, and conduct science on other worlds.
#223
Orbital Robotics Engineer
Creates robots for satellite servicing, assembly, inspection, repair, refueling, debris removal, and station operations.
#224
Space Manipulator Systems Engineer
Designs robotic arms, hands, tools, controls, and interfaces for microgravity and vacuum operations.
#225
Lunar Construction Robotics Engineer
Develops robots that prepare sites, move regolith, build shielding, deploy utilities, and assemble habitats on the Moon.
#226
Mars Surface Robotics Engineer
Builds robust robots for long-delay, dusty, cold, radiation-exposed operations on Mars.
#227
In-Space Manufacturing Robotics Specialist
Designs robots that fabricate, assemble, inspect, and repair structures and equipment in orbit.
#228
Space Habitat Maintenance Robotics Engineer
Creates robots that inspect, clean, repair, replace, and monitor life-supporting habitat systems.
#229
Interplanetary Robot Autonomy Researcher
Develops systems capable of safe independent action when communication delays prevent continuous human control.
#230
Space Robotics Mission Operations Supervisor
Coordinates robot objectives, health, communications, software, contingencies, and human intervention across distant missions.