Senior Principal Robotics Engineer

Overview

• Principal Robotics Engineer NXP’s Robotics Platform architects and helps deliver an end-to-end software and hardware solution driving the future of Physical AI.
• As intelligent machines move from labs into factories, hospitals, and warehouses, the Robotics Platform team bu ilds the base hardware and software that enables this shift.
• They fuse simulation, accelerated compute, and real-world deployment into a single development process for robotics developers around the world.
• In this role, you will lead the development, crafting, and refinement of core platform features.
• You will influence how developers engage with the platform.
• You will also build reference integrations, examples, and tools that support developers in bringing physical AI to life.
• As a lead, you will guide technical work across the Robotics Platform stack and coordinate efforts between our team and other NXP partner teams.
• What You Will Be Doing: • Lead the development of new Robotics Platform features, optimizations, tooling, and developer-facing APIs — with a strong emphasis on performance and reliability.
• Build clear, comprehensive, and AI agent-ready reference applications, benchmarks, skills, and tutorials showcasing platform capabilities in real-world robotics scenarios.
• Work with software team to Optimize the platform to best leverage NXP's hardware for sensor I/O processing and physical AI.
• Coordinate with partner teams (hardware, simulation, AI frameworks, developer relations) to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and ship cohesive platform experiences.
• Establish and champion engineering guidelines across the team: code quality, testing protocols, performance measurement, observability, and adoption of agentic AI for accelerated development.
• What We Need to See: • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on systems software, robotics, or developer tooling, including technical lead or staff engineering role.
• Proven experience in developing and shipping robotic products.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers — setting technical direction, conducting build reviews, and growing team members' capabilities.
• Strong coding skills i.e C, C++, Python, Rust etc., and ability to work across both application and platform layers of a software stack.
• Strong Familiarity with robotics concepts including sensor pipelines, real-time execution, and robot application architectures.
• Strong collaborative approach to working within a fast-paced, multi-team environment.
• Proficiency using agentic AI tools to accelerate software development and multiply team output.