Lead Engineer, Robot Behavior and Decision-Making

Job overview

The Lead Engineer, Robot Behavior and Decision-Making role is listed in San Francisco, CA, with an expected base salary of $200,000–$240,000 per year. Andromeda Robotics is developing social intelligence for humanoid robots, including Abi, which is deployed in aged-care and healthcare settings. As the founding member of the Mission Autonomy team, the engineer designs and builds the decision-making layer that coordinates Abi’s activities over extended shifts. The role establishes architecture, prototypes and evaluates autonomy in simulation and on the robot, and creates safe, repeatable deployment and monitoring practices.

What you'll do

• Design the Mission Autonomy architecture and roadmap
• prototype an autonomy loop in simulation
• co-design simulation capabilities
• set technical direction and interfaces with adjacent teams
• define action primitives
• design behavior for degraded subsystems
• establish deployment, observability, testing, and rollback patterns
• build evaluation benchmarks and reporting for long-horizon missions.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

lead engineer

robot behavior

decision-making

mission autonomy

humanoid robotics

robotics ai

ros 2

simulation

san francisco ca

andromeda robotics

$200k–$240k

401(k)

robot safety

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• The posting states the expected base salary range and notes that exceptional candidates may discuss a package reflecting their value
• no specific benefits are listed.

Why this role

Founding Mission Autonomy team member; combines research with practical robotics and requires experience taking autonomous systems through deployment and operations.

About the employer

Andromeda Robotics is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.