CrawlJobs Logo
Microsoft Corporation Logo Microsoft Corporation · IT - Software Development

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems)

United States, Redmond Employment contract 119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 30, 2026
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

Microsoft's Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) division develops and delivers advanced artificial intelligence (AI), cloud-enabled capabilities, and strategic technologies to help solve the world's major challenges. From accelerating scientific discovery with advanced AI tools, to pioneering breakthroughs in quantum computing, to advancing robotics and AI capabilities that drive real-world impact, joining MDQ means building the future, partnering with fast-moving innovators, and operating in a high-impact, mission-driven environment. At Microsoft Robotics within MDQ, we build and deploy technologies that enable people, robots, and AI agents to collaborate and achieve more. We are building Microsoft's platform for physical intelligence—an integrated robotics software and AI platform that brings together humans, robots, and agents through robotics AI models, innovative teaming solutions and experiences, physically grounded agentic AI workflows, trustworthy test and evaluation, and real-world customer-focused validation. Built on Microsoft's core platforms and delivered through and with a global ecosystem of partners and customers, this platform accelerates AI for the physical world and helps robotics solutions move from experimentation to reliable, scaled deployment. We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems) at the Senior level, to own the reliability, observability, and operational health of our production robotics platform — spanning Azure-hosted cloud services, on-robot edge runtimes, and the data and telemetry systems that connect them. This is an individual contributor role with deep hands-on ownership: you will be the engineer who builds and operates the production infrastructure that keeps physical AI systems running safely and reliably at scale. This role sits at the intersection of site reliability engineering (SRE) and robotics systems engineering; you will ensure that the software powering real-world robots in partner and customer environments is safe, performant, monitorable, and recoverable. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Job Responsibility

  • Design, build, and operate the observability and monitoring infrastructure for the Microsoft Robotics platform, including telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, alerting, dashboards, and health models that span cloud services on Azure and edge/on-robot components running in partner environments
  • Instantiate the core incident response and reliability capabilities for production robotics workloads, to include defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs)/Service Level Objectives (SLOs), building automated detection and remediation, conducting post-incident reviews, and driving systemic improvements that prevent recurrence across the fleet
  • Engineer production-grade deployment and release pipelines for robotics software, including safe rollout strategies for edge/on-robot updates, canary deployments, rollback automation, and stage-gated release processes that enforce safety and quality checks before software reaches physical systems
  • Build and maintain the secure-by-design infrastructure for cloud-to-edge communication, including certificate management, secure boot chains, encrypted telemetry channels, and access controls for remotely managed robotic systems
  • Partner with platform, autonomy, and simulation engineers to instrument new capabilities with production-quality logging, metrics, and tracing from day one, embedding operational readiness into the development lifecycle rather than retrofitting it
  • Develop capacity planning models and performance baselines for robotics workloads, identifying scaling bottlenecks in data ingestion, model inference, simulation execution, and real-time control loops before they impact partner deployments
  • Contribute to eventual on-call rotations and build the runbooks, escalation paths, and operational documentation that enable the broader team to support production systems confidently

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • 3+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience operating and debugging distributed systems in production, including cloud-native services (Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)), containerized workloads (Kubernetes, Docker), and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Experience with edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), or embedded systems in production - particularly systems where cloud services coordinate with on-device software running on constrained or physically deployed hardware
  • Proficiency in at least one systems-level language (Go, C++, Rust) and one scripting language (Python, Bash), with experience building monitoring, automation, and tooling for production environments
  • Experience defining and operating against Service Level Indicators (SLIs)/Service Level Objectives (SLOs), building alerting and dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or equivalent), and leading incident response processes in on-call environments
  • Demonstrated ability to work across the stack - from cloud infrastructure and networking to application-level telemetry and on-device diagnostics - to identify and resolve production issues under time pressure
  • Experience with fleet management at scale - including over-the-air (OTA) update systems, device lifecycle management, and remote diagnostics for distributed hardware deployments
  • Knowledge of security engineering for IoT/edge systems, including secure boot, device attestation, certificate rotation, and encrypted communication channels
  • Experience with Azure-specific services (Azure IoT Hub, Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)) and their application to hybrid cloud-edge architectures
  • Familiarity with robotics systems, Robot Operating System (ROS)/Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2), real-time operating systems, or autonomous vehicle infrastructure, including the unique reliability challenges of software controlling physical actuators
  • Prior work in industries with high-consequence software failures (robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical devices, aerospace) where reliability engineering directly impacts physical safety
Microsoft Corporation - All Job Offers

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Suggested Tags: Frontend Developer Secretary Talent Manager Salesforce Administrator Data Analyst
Similar Jobs for

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems)

8 matching positions

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems)

Microsoft's Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) division develops and delivers advanced ...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
142800.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Architect and implement core platform components, including robotics SDKs, cloud-hosted Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), edge runtimes, and agent orchestration frameworks that enable developers and partners to compose interoperable autonomy capabilities (perception, planning, control, multi-agent coordination) into deployable mission workflows
  • Design the platform's extensibility and integration architecture, defining how first-party autonomy capabilities, first- and third-party models, partner hardware systems, and customer-specific logic are composed, versioned, tested, and deployed across cloud and edge environments
  • Build production-grade data infrastructure spanning the full robotics lifecycle including instrumentation libraries, data acquisition services, human-in-the-loop workflows, dataset versioning and curation pipelines, and data quality governance supporting both real-world and synthetic/simulated data at scale
  • Own cross-cutting platform concerns including authentication and authorization across cloud-edge boundaries, API versioning and backward compatibility, multi-tenant isolation, and performance at the latencies required by real-time robotic control loops
  • Drive the developer experience for the Microsoft Robotics platform, to include defining the Command Line Interface (CLI), SDK patterns, documentation strategy, sample code, and inner-loop development workflow that make it fast and reliable for internal teams and external partners to build on the platform
  • Collaborate with autonomy, simulation, and evaluation teams to ensure that platform primitives (compute orchestration, data routing, model serving, experiment tracking) meet the performance, reliability, and reproducibility requirements of Machine Learning (ML) training, sim-to-real transfer, and online evaluation workloads
  • Lead technical design reviews, write architecture decision records, and establish engineering practices for the platform team, mentoring senior engineers and raising the bar for code quality, testing, and operational readiness across the organization.
What we offer
What we offer
  • Benefits and other compensation may be eligible
  • Find additional benefits and pay information at the provided link.
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Member Of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Hardware Systems)

Microsoft’s Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) division develops and delivers advanced ...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
102100.00 - 202200.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Support the design, assembly, integration, and maintenance of robotic hardware platforms, including manipulators, mobile bases, sensor arrays, compute enclosures, power systems, and end-effector tooling
  • Ingest device specification sheets, electrical schematics, and mechanical drawings into AI systems to support and accelerate configuration, calibration, and troubleshooting of robotic hardware components and subsystems
  • Perform hardware-software integration for robotic platforms, including sensor bring-up (cameras, LiDAR, force/torque sensors, tactile arrays), compute module configuration, network provisioning, and firmware updates
  • Develop and execute hardware verification and validation test plans, including functional testing, environmental stress testing, endurance testing, and safety compliance verification for robotic subsystems
  • Create and maintain design documentation including assembly drawings, wiring diagrams, bills of materials, specifications, and calibration procedures for robotic hardware configurations
  • Set up and maintain robotics lab environments, including workstations, test fixtures, safety infrastructure, tool inventories, and environmental controls, following established safety guidelines
  • Identify common project risks (e.g., supplier delays, incomplete specifications, component obsolescence) and develop mitigation plans to keep hardware integration timelines on track
  • Gather information and participate in make-versus-buy decisions based on complexity, cost, quality, reliability, and schedule impact for robotic hardware components and subsystems
  • Develop prototype components and assemblies for validation of new robotic capabilities, working closely with software and AI teams to ensure hardware meets requirements for AI model training and evaluation
  • Communicate project progress and technical status within the project team, including hardware readiness, integration milestones, and issue escalations, providing clear and timely updates to engineering and program leadership.
What we offer
What we offer
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Member Of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Field Robotics)

Microsoft’s Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) division develops and delivers advanced ...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
102100.00 - 202200.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Plan, coordinate, and execute field test campaigns for robotic systems across diverse real-world environments, including customer sites, partner facilities, and first-party scenarios, ranging from indoor semi-structured settings to unstructured outdoor terrains, that replicate operational conditions
  • Develop and maintain structured field test protocols, acceptance criteria, data collection procedures, and reporting templates that ensure repeatable, measurable evaluation of robot hardware, software, and AI model performance
  • Deploy, configure, and operate robotic platforms in the field, including hardware setup, software provisioning, network configuration, sensor calibration, and integration with site-specific infrastructure
  • Collect, organize, and analyze field test data including sensor logs, telemetry streams, performance metrics, video recordings, and environmental measurements, producing clear and actionable test reports for engineering and program leadership
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot field issues across the full robot stack (mechanical, electrical, software, networking, AI behavior), performing initial root cause analysis and resolving complex issues alongside engineering teams with well-documented reproduction steps
  • Collaborate with hardware engineers, software engineers, AI researchers, and program managers to communicate and integrate field findings, prioritize bug fixes and design improvements, and validate engineering changes through follow-up field testing
  • Identify and provide feedback on process gaps in field deployment and test procedures, sharing best practices broadly across the team and contributing to continuous improvement of field operations readiness
  • Maintain detailed documentation around field deployment procedures, site-specific configurations, inventory management, and service support workflows
  • Participate in test triage and review meetings to share knowledge, actively contribute to faster issue resolution, and identify readiness needs for upcoming field campaigns
  • Assist in the development of end-to-end readiness programs, including mentoring, knowledge sharing, technical document creation, and development of field operations training materials
What we offer
What we offer
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Creative Design)

We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Creative Design),...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design end-to-end fleet management and mission operations experiences
  • Create wireframes, journey maps, user scenarios, task flows, and personas
  • Develop interaction models for multi-robot coordination workflows
  • Produce visual designs from concept to delivery
  • Build and validate interactive prototypes
  • Collaborate with program managers, software engineers, and robotics engineers
  • Contribute to and drive adoption of design system components
  • Communicate a compelling product story to leadership
  • Estimate design schedules, define and prioritize product design plans
  • Leverage ideation methodologies to lead design solutions
What we offer
What we offer
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Human-Robot-AI Interaction)

We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Human-Robot-AI In...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design end-to-end human-robot interaction (HRI) and human-AI teaming experiences, including natural language task instruction interfaces, shared autonomy control panels, intent and status communication displays, and trust calibration mechanisms
  • Create wireframes, journey maps, user jobs and scenarios, task flows, and personas for diverse users who interact with robots, ranging from factory floor operators and warehouse associates to lab researchers and first responders
  • Develop interaction models for multimodal communication between humans and robots, including voice, gesture, gaze, spatial input (AR/MR), touchscreen and future multi-sensory paradigms, ensuring seamless transitions between modalities
  • Produce visual designs from concept to delivery for robot status communication (e.g., intent signaling, confidence indicators, uncertainty visualization), user-facing explainability surfaces, and collaborative task-handoff interfaces
  • Build and validate interactive prototypes, including mixed-modality and immersive experiences, that demonstrate human-robot-agent collaboration concepts to stakeholders and customers
  • Collaborate with program managers, software engineers, robotics researchers, and AI safety experts to define and iterate on HRI product features, ensuring safety, transparency, and appropriate trust calibration are embedded from the outset
  • Contribute to and lead development of a robotics-specific design system for HRI patterns (e.g., robot communication modalities, autonomy level indicators, handoff protocols, error recovery flows) aligned with Microsoft's Fluent design language
  • Communicate a compelling, convincing product story about human-robot-agent collaboration to leadership and cross-disciplinary audiences, adjusting narrative depending on the audience
  • Leverage ideation methodologies to lead design solutions for complex HRI products involving many constraints (e.g., real-time responsiveness, safety-critical contexts, diverse user expertise levels, variable robot morphologies)
  • Take ownership of interaction design sub-systems from concept to delivery, working closely with hardware engineers to ensure feasibility of physical interaction affordances and advocate for user experience benefits during trade-off discussions
What we offer
What we offer
  • Benefits and other compensation
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Navigation)

Microsoft’s Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) division develops and delivers advanced ...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
102100.00 - 202200.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Develop algorithms that translate mission objectives, task assignments, spatial constraints, and robot state into safe, dynamically feasible trajectories for mobile robots, manipulators, or multi-robot systems.
  • Integrate navigation and planning modules with localization, mapping, perception, control, simulation, and fleet operations systems to support end-to-end autonomy workflows.
  • Build and improve real-time planning systems that operate under practical constraints such as limited compute, noisy sensors, dynamic obstacles, intermittent connectivity, and changing environmental conditions.
  • Develop costmaps, traversability models, spatial constraints, route-planning logic, and safety-aware decision policies that enable robots to operate in human-populated and operationally complex environments.
  • Use simulation, log replay, field testing, and automated regression suites to evaluate navigation performance, identify failure modes, and improve robustness across diverse scenarios.
  • Collaborate with perception, spatial AI, simulation, platform, and field test teams to validate navigation behavior across real and simulated environments, ensuring consistent performance from lab development through deployment.
  • Analyze robot telemetry, navigation logs, planner traces, and field test results to debug autonomy issues, tune planning parameters, and drive measurable improvements in success rate, safety, latency, and mission efficiency.
  • Write production-quality software in Python, C++, or equivalent languages, following engineering best practices for testing, maintainability, observability, and operational readiness.
  • Stay current with advances in robotics navigation, motion planning, model-predictive control, multi-agent planning, foundation models for robotics, and embodied AI, evaluating new techniques for adoption into Microsoft's robotics platform.
What we offer
What we offer
  • Benefits and other compensation
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robot Security & Safety)

Microsoft's Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) division develops and delivers advanced ...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design and implement end-to-end security and safety architectures for robotic systems, spanning the full hardware-software robot stack, including device-level security (secure boot, firmware integrity, encrypted communications), platform-level security (identity, access control, certificate management), and cloud-to-edge security for robot fleet management.
  • Develop and maintain safety analyses and threat models (FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA) specific to robotic systems operating in human-populated environments, identifying risks from cyber-attack vectors, AI behavior failures, hardware faults, and environmental uncertainties.
  • Define and enforce safety envelopes and runtime safety monitors for autonomous robot behaviors, including collision avoidance, force limiting, workspace boundaries, and graceful degradation under sensor or actuator failure conditions.
  • Analyze key security metrics, KPIs, and telemetry data to identify trends in security posture and safety incidents, implementing mitigation strategies and driving continuous improvement of the platform's security and safety posture.
  • Design and scale solutions to address identified security control issues (network, identity, applications) and current threats specific to robotics deployments, anticipating and articulating risks to leadership.
  • Develop and implement incident response processes for robotics-specific security and safety events, including physical safety incidents, AI behavior anomalies, fleet compromise scenarios, and supply chain integrity concerns.
  • Collaborate with robotics engineers, AI researchers, and platform engineers to embed security and safety requirements into the software development lifecycle, including secure coding standards, security testing in CI/CD pipelines, and safety validation in simulation.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of security policies and standards for robotic systems, aligning with industry frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, IEC 61508, ISO 13482, ISO 10218, RIA standards) and Microsoft's security requirements.
  • Engage with regulatory bodies, industry standards organizations, and Microsoft internal AI safety and security communities (e.g., Microsoft's Office of Responsible AI), to stay current on evolving safety and security requirements for autonomous and AI-enabled physical systems.
  • Leverage automation and AI to improve effectiveness of security operations, including automated vulnerability scanning, anomaly detection in robot telemetry, and AI-assisted threat hunting across the robotics fleet.
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Teacher of Girls' PE

Do you have what it takes to nurture today’s young people and inspire tomorrow’s...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , Birmingham
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
staracademies.org Logo
Star Academies
Expiration Date
June 17, 2026
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status
  • The ability to teach to GCSE standard
  • Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement
  • Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.
What we offer
What we offer
  • competitive salaries and pension schemes
  • generous holiday entitlements
  • healthcare cash plans
  • Parttime
Read More
Arrow Right