Which companies are hiring for Embodied AI roles?

The companies with the most active Embodied AI listings are: Amazon (56 roles), Wayve (41 roles), NVIDIA (28 roles), Figure AI (19 roles), Shield AI (19 roles).

What AI lifecycle stage does Embodied AI belong to?

Embodied AI primarily belongs to the application stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Embodied AI roles concentrate at: agents (39%), application (32%).

What sectors invest most in Embodied AI?

The sectors with the most active Embodied AI hiring are: Robotics, Big Tech, Defense.

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Embodied AI

AI for physical agents — robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones — bridging perception, planning, and control. Heavy overlap with reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer.

Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.

As of today, 305 active AI roles across 44 companies in our index reference Embodied AI. Hiring concentrates at the agents (39%) and application (32%) stages. Most common sectors: Robotics, Big Tech, Defense.

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All Engineering · 322 Research · 102 Product · 13

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48 AI roles tagged embodied_ai.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Other tags
Skydio	Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning	Defense	9	Vision · Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Synthetic data
Skydio	PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern - Planning & Controls (Reinforcement Learning)	Defense	9	Sim-to-real · Agent orchestration · Model serving
Anduril	Senior Manipulation Engineer (Imitation Learning), Discovery	Defense	9	Tool use
Shield AI	Principal Engineer, AI Infrastructure (R4941)	Defense	9	Model serving · Inference infra · Fine-tuning · Evals · Multimodal
Anduril	AI Chief Engineering Lead	Defense	9	Agent orchestration · Agent research · RL robotics · Synthetic data
Skydio	Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning	Defense	9	Multimodal · Synthetic data · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving
Skydio	Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning	Defense	9	Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Synthetic data
Skydio	PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern - Planning & Controls (Reinforcement Learning)	Defense	9	RL robotics · Sim-to-real · Agent orchestration · Multi-agent
Shield AI	Manager of Engineering - Autonomous Pilot Integration - Emerging Domains (R5176)	Defense	8	Agent orchestration · Multi-agent
Shield AI	Senior Staff Engineer, Software Autonomy (R5125)	Defense	8
Skydio	PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern - Deep Learning or Computer Vision	Defense	8	Model serving
Shield AI	Software Engineer II, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588)	Defense	8	Agent orchestration
Skydio	Autonomy Software Engineer	Defense	8
Shield AI	Principal Technical Product Manager (R5249)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration · Model serving
Shield AI	Staff Engineer, Software Autonomy Applications (R4962)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration
Shield AI	Senior Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration & Test (R5225)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration
Shield AI	Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5193)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration · Multi-agent
Shield AI	Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5200)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration · Multi-agent
Skydio	Autonomy Engineer - Planning and Controls	Defense	7
Shield AI	Director, Test Engineering - ACP Programs (R5044)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration · Evals
Anduril	Mission Operations Product Manager, Group 5 Mission Autonomy	Defense	7	Agent orchestration
Anduril	Mission Operations Product Manager, Group 5 Mission Autonomy	Defense	7	Agent orchestration
Shield AI	Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration · Multi-agent
Shield AI	Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588)	Defense	7	Agent orchestration
Anduril	Senior Robotics Engineer, Maritime	Defense	7
Shield AI	Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis (R4757)	Defense	7	Agent research · Evals
Anduril	Software Engineer, Robotics	Defense	7
Anduril	Robotics Engineer, Maritime	Defense	7
Skydio	Senior Autonomy Engineer - Controls	Defense	7
Anduril	Flight Test Operator, Mission Autonomy	Defense	7

Frequently asked questions

What is Embodied AI in AI?
AI for physical agents — robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones — bridging perception, planning, and control. Heavy overlap with reinforcement learning and sim-to-real transfer. Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.
How many AI roles reference Embodied AI right now?
305 active AI roles across 44 companies in our index reference Embodied AI as of today.
Which companies are hiring for Embodied AI roles?
The companies with the most active Embodied AI listings are: Amazon (56 roles), Wayve (41 roles), NVIDIA (28 roles), Figure AI (19 roles), Shield AI (19 roles).
What AI lifecycle stage does Embodied AI belong to?
Embodied AI primarily belongs to the application stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Embodied AI roles concentrate at: agents (39%), application (32%).
What sectors invest most in Embodied AI?
The sectors with the most active Embodied AI hiring are: Robotics, Big Tech, Defense.