Senior Principal Robotics Engineer

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 builds 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.