AI Robotics Engineer at Team Red Dog
Redmond, WA
$10,200–$11,500from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract engineering role focused on building and maintaining machine learning pipelines, training and evaluation infrastructure, and deployment tooling for robotic AI systems. Day-to-day work spans integrating robotic simulation environments with physical hardware, fine-tuning robotics foundation models, and contributing to open-source robotics software. Best suited to engineers with hands-on experience in Python, PyTorch, and ROS2 who have worked at the intersection of machine learning and robotics.
Mid level · 2+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 210 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 110–270
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
This is a W2 contract role running through January 7, 2028, placed by staffing firm Team Red Dog on behalf of an unnamed end client described as an AI-driven technology organization in Redmond, WA (onsite).
The role sits at the intersection of software engineering and ML/robotics research; SOC 15-1252 (Software Developers) was chosen because the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping pipelines, tooling, and deployment infrastructure — but 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is a credible runner-up given the heavy ML modeling and research context.
The JD states a Bachelor's degree in CS, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field as a listed requirement with no explicit 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
Overall experience is stated as '2–4 years', so the overall years minimum is set to 2 (the minimum of the range).
Azure Machine Learning is explicitly called 'preferred' in the JD; reinforcement learning, diffusion models, and vision-language-action models are described as 'highly desirable' — all treated as preferred. TensorFlow appears only as an alternative framework example under the requirements section alongside PyTorch, but since PyTorch is the hard-gated skill, TensorFlow is captured as a preferred alternative context skill.
Compensation is quoted as $10,200–$11,500 per month, reported as-is without annualizing.
The posting explicitly excludes C2C and sponsorship; all candidates must be US work-authorized.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): vision-language-action models.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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