What do the current listings advertise?
Corpus snapshot: 2026-09-30. 1124 open, admitted roles; 675 disclose salary data (60%). 643 roles across 51 employers have comparable annual USD salary bands.
Median advertised lower bound: $170,000. Median advertised upper bound: $250,000 per year.
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| Group | Salary sample | Employers | Median lower bound | Median upper bound |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All eligible listings | 643 | 51 | $170,000 | $250,000 |
Sample concentration: Anduril contributes 224 of 643 annual salary postings (35%). Each posting counts equally, so larger employers have more influence.
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| Group | Salary sample | Employers | Median lower bound | Median upper bound |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All eligible listings | 643 | 51 | $170,000 | $250,000 |
| Excluding Anduril | 419 | 50 | $170,000 | $250,000 |
This comparison shows sensitivity to employer mix; it is not a corrected estimate of the wider market.
These are two separate medians: one of the advertised minimums and one of the advertised maximums. They are not a single employer’s offer range, an average salary, actual employee earnings or total compensation.
Advertised pay by role category
Each listing uses its single assigned board category. Categories mix employers, locations and seniority levels; differences do not establish a pay premium for a skill.
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| Group | Salary sample | Employers | Median lower bound | Median upper bound |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomy & Planning | 448 | 43 | $170,000 | $250,000 |
| Perception & Vision | 57 | 13 | $190,000 | $260,000 |
| Manipulation & Dexterity | 16 | 10 | $187,200 | $273,950 |
| Controls & Embedded | 51 | 21 | $150,000 | $220,000 |
| Robot Learning | 23 | 10 | $200,000 | $350,000 |
| Robotics Hardware | 48 | 21 | $146,000 | $219,000 |
Specialty and location comparisons
These cohorts use the same selection rules as their linked jobs pages. Cohorts overlap, and a multi-location posting may count in both location markets; do not add these rows together.
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| Group | Salary sample | Employers | Median lower bound | Median upper bound |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embodied AI jobs | 24 | 11 | $200,000 | $350,000 |
| Humanoid robotics jobs | 29 | 5 | $195,000 | $296,000 |
| SLAM jobs | 15 | 9 | $200,000 | $270,000 |
| Robot learning jobs | 24 | 11 | $200,000 | $350,000 |
| Bay Area robotics jobs | 248 | 26 | $180,000 | $262,000 |
| Austin robotics jobs | 8 | 2 | $128,500 | $243,500 |
Employers with comparable salary disclosures
Alphabetical, not a ranking. Employers need at least three eligible listings to appear. Larger hiring teams contribute more postings to the overall medians; the overall result is not employer-weighted.
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| Group | Salary sample | Employers | Median lower bound | Median upper bound |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1X | 9 | 1 | $175,950 | $250,000 |
| Agility Robotics | 11 | 1 | $195,000 | $296,000 |
| Anduril | 224 | 1 | $166,500 | $253,000 |
| Applied Intuition | 46 | 1 | $142,500 | $250,000 |
| Apptronik | 3 | 1 | $300,000 | $350,000 |
| Atoms | 9 | 1 | $208,000 | $263,500 |
| Brain Corp | 4 | 1 | $187,182 | $212,801 |
| FieldAI | 14 | 1 | $100,000 | $200,000 |
| Figure | 5 | 1 | $150,000 | $250,000 |
| Foundry Robotics | 4 | 1 | $150,000 | $250,000 |
| Generalist AI | 7 | 1 | $240,000 | $350,000 |
| GrayMatter Robotics | 7 | 1 | $135,000 | $200,000 |
| Intrinsic | 3 | 1 | $174,400 | $237,800 |
| Kodiak | 20 | 1 | $190,000 | $242,500 |
| Lila Sciences | 6 | 1 | $140,400 | $228,933 |
| Locus Robotics | 4 | 1 | $50,000 | $90,000 |
| May Mobility | 26 | 1 | $161,739 | $210,000 |
| Motional | 14 | 1 | $181,000 | $236,900 |
| Neuralink | 7 | 1 | $119,000 | $224,000 |
| Nimble Robotics | 10 | 1 | $170,000 | $225,000 |
| Nuro | 24 | 1 | $193,930 | $291,150 |
| Orchard Robotics | 3 | 1 | $135,000 | $190,000 |
| RoboForce | 7 | 1 | $165,000 | $265,000 |
| Serve Robotics | 3 | 1 | $182,000 | $204,000 |
| Skild AI | 11 | 1 | $100,000 | $300,000 |
| Skydio | 16 | 1 | $170,000 | $240,000 |
| Sunday Robotics | 5 | 1 | $170,000 | $330,000 |
| Torc Robotics | 20 | 1 | $160,800 | $193,000 |
| Waabi | 34 | 1 | $155,000 | $266,500 |
| Waymo | 27 | 1 | $213,000 | $263,000 |
| Wayve | 16 | 1 | $283,050 | $340,700 |
| Zipline | 16 | 1 | $170,000 | $230,000 |
Methodology and limitations
- Only source-open roles admitted to this board are included. Source-open roles excluded by the board’s relevance review never enter this report. Duplicate job keys count once.
- We use the structured salary band extracted from the employer posting, requiring explicit USD currency, YEAR period and two finite, positive endpoints in ascending order. Equal endpoints are allowed.
- We exclude missing or invalid bands, non-USD figures, hourly or other non-annual periods, and salary snippets explicitly labeled OTE or total compensation. We do not annualize hourly pay, convert currencies or estimate equity and bonuses.
- The salary parser can miss context or select a location-specific band from a multi-band posting. These are extracted advertised salary figures, not an independently verified base-pay survey. Check the employer’s original posting before relying on a number.
- Median endpoints are computed separately and rounded to the nearest dollar for display. Cohorts with fewer than three comparable postings show “Insufficient sample,” not a numerical estimate.
- This is a snapshot of the employers and jobs covered by this board, not the whole robotics labor market. Disclosure practices, seniority and location create selection bias. No hiring trend or salary growth claim is made.
Excluded from the annual salary sample
- Non-annual or unspecified period: 25 roles.
- No salary disclosed: 449 roles.
- Non-USD or unspecified currency: 7 roles.
Check the underlying postings
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A reproducible sample of up to ten eligible listings, ordered by source-verification date then job key—not the highest salaries. Open a role to inspect its salary and employer application source.
- Senior Autonomy Engineer, Data Curation — Skydio: $170,000–$240,000 per year.
- Staff Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike — Anduril: $191,000–$292,000 per year.
- Autonomy Lead — Anduril: $253,000–$336,000 per year.
- Embedded Systems Engineer, Autonomous Vehicles (Federal) — FieldAI: $70,000–$300,000 per year.
- 2027 Early Career Flight Software Engineer — Anduril: $112,000–$149,000 per year.
- GNC Software Engineer — Anduril: $166,000–$220,000 per year.
- Software Engineer - Core — 1X: $200,000–$300,000 per year.
- Roboticist, Robot Foundation Model — Wayve: $184,200–$240,000 per year.
- Senior Front End Software Engineer, React — Anduril: $191,000–$253,000 per year.
- ML Engineer, II - Perception — Torc Robotics: $153,200–$183,800 per year.
How should I use this report?
Start with the closest category and location, then compare the actual responsibilities and experience level in individual postings. Ask whether a quoted band covers your location and how base pay, bonus and equity are separated. Treat small cohorts as directional context, not a target offer.