Coupang

Staff Robotics System Engineer

Coupang
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15 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$164k - $282k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, integration, and deployment of full-stack autonomous robotics systems across perception, planning/control, hardware, and operational workflows.
  • Define system requirements, interfaces, data contracts, SLAs/SLOs, metrics, and architecture decisions for robotics subsystems.
  • Design and implement autonomy control orchestration and behavior trees using Groot and ROS2.
  • Own robotics infrastructure including drivers, ROS/ROS2 middleware, simulation environments, system tooling, deployment pipelines, containerization, and edge compute optimization.
  • Integrate robotics systems with Coupang WMS through APIs and bidirectional data models.
  • Develop production-quality robotics software and simulation, testing, validation, monitoring, observability, and alerting workflows.
  • Debug hardware-software integration issues, conduct root cause analysis, and improve system safety, robustness, latency, repeatability, and task success.
  • Contribute to roadmaps, code reviews, documentation, engineering standards, and mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least 8 years of hands-on robotics systems engineering experience with increasing scope and ownership.
  • Deep proficiency in Python for real-time and systems-level robotics development.
  • Experience integrating cameras, sensors, PLCs, and other hardware peripherals into production robotics systems.
  • Strong experience with the ROS/ROS2 ecosystem, including custom message types, services, nodes, and lifecycle management.
  • Experience integrating and debugging complete robotic systems spanning software, sensors, actuators, middleware, simulation, and hardware.
  • Real-world industrial robotics experience deploying, validating, or supporting robots in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, inspection, service, or comparable environments.
  • Experience with edge AI inference pipelines, GPUs, AI inference servers such as Triton or vLLM, GPU-accelerated planning, optimization, model predictive control, whole-body control, or real-time trajectory generation is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Docker, containerized robotics deployments, CI/CD systems, DevOps practices, observability tools, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or distributed tracing is preferred.
  • Understanding of computer vision and perception system requirements and experience in warehouse automation, industrial robotics, or logistics environments are preferred.

Benefits

  • Base pay ranges from $164K/year to $282K/year, with annual bonus eligibility of 0–20% of base salary.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, flexible spending, health savings, employee assistance, and 401(k) benefits are provided.
  • The role includes 18–21 days of paid time off based on tenure, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, and pre-tax commuter benefits.
  • A free electric car charging station is available at the Mountain View location.

Tech Stack

DockerGrafanaPrometheusPython

Categories

EmbeddedRobotics
Coupang

About Coupang

5,001-10,000 employees

Coupang builds and operates a South Korea–focused e-commerce marketplace with an end-to-end logistics network (Rocket Delivery), plus food delivery, video streaming, and fintech under brands such as Coupang, Eats, and Play. Revenue comes from first-party retail, third-party marketplace services, advertising, and memberships (Rocket WOW). Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Seattle and is publicly listed on the NYSE (CPNG).

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