Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

robotics

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 354 postings naming robotics that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer72.9%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer12.1%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.8%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.4%
  5. 5Data Scientist3.4%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer1.1%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.1%

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 = 206
10th
$143k
25th
$183k
Median
$215k
75th
$250k
90th
$300k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA27.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA16.1%
  3. 3Seattle, WA4.5%
  4. 4Austin, TX4.2%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA3.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.1%
  7. 7Remote3.1%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.7%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.