Robotics Engineer salary
What a robotics engineer actually earns, from 149 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
Switch the market above to see robotics engineer pay in the 2 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
A robotics engineer earns a blended US median near 128,468 dollars, with the typical middle running from 99,241 dollars to 164,000 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 1% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is electrical engineer, at 19 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open robotics engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
- Robotics Software Engineer - Grasping at IntrinsicroboticsMunich2d agoApply
DeepTech Robotics Engineer (100 % remote) (m/f/d) at EWOR GmbHRemote2d agoApply- Senior Robotics Software Engineer (C# / C++) (m/f/d) D at Agile Robots SeGermany, Munich (HQ)1w agoApply
- Robotics Software Engineer Intern – Swarm Systems (m/f/d) at Autonomous-teamingMunich (DEU)1w agoApply
Robotics Engineer Intern at Sereact GmbHStuttgart Schockenriedstr. 171w agoApply- Senior Robotics Software Engineer Counter UAV Systems - Generalist (m/w/d) at Autonomous-teamingMunich (DEU)2w agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$99,241$128,468$164,000
- United Kingdom$69,960$82,548$109,149
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 8'730/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 21 Naturwissenschaftler, Mathematiker und Ingenieure: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 104'760 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a robotics engineer profile already covers.
- 24 open computer vision engineer roles$165,666 median · +$37,198 · 23% readiness
- 578 open research scientist roles$154,306 median · +$25,838 · 27% readiness
- 43 open aerospace engineer roles$129,497 median · +$1,029 · 26% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a robotics engineer.
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Related salaries
- Electrical Engineer salary$119,104 median
- Computer Vision Engineer salary$165,666 median
- Mechanical Engineer salary$112,630 median
Quick answers
How much does a robotics engineer make?
The blended US median is about 128,468 dollars, with a typical range from 99,241 dollars to 164,000 dollars.
Is robotics engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 1% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a robotics engineer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is electrical engineer, at 19 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code null. Live corpus 149 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.