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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

robotics

222 live US technical postings name robotics in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 222 postings naming robotics that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer74.8%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer10.8%
  3. 3Data Scientist3.6%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.6%
  5. 5AI Engineer3.2%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.4%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.4%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where robotics is named
n = 36
10th
$160k
25th
$185k
Median
$238k
75th
$256k
90th
$300k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA26.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13.5%
  3. 3Remote5%
  4. 4Austin, TX4.1%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.1%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.7%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA1.8%
  8. 8Pittsburgh, PA1.8%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.