Robotics Engineer

Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like inbounding goods, replenishing shelves and sorting stock, currently mostly overnight. They're driven from our control room in Stockholm and increasingly run on their own. We raised a €1.92M pre-seed in August 2026 and are live with retailers in Sweden and Finland. We're a small team based at Sankt Eriksgatan in Stockholm, where half the office is our own dark store. About the roleYou’ll build the autonomy that lets our robots work shelves and pallets in live stores. We care about what works in a store at 6am, not what wins a benchmark, and that usually means combining learned policies with classical methods rather than picking a side. What you'll doDevelop and deploy manipulation and navigation policies on real robots in real storesWork with VLAs and modern learned control alongside classical planning, perception, and controlDecide which approach fits which problem, and be right about it often enoughOwn problems from store observation to shipped behavior What we're looking forWell versed in robotics broadly, with hands-on experience on real robotsClear on the tradeoffs between classical and learned approachesA fast learner who can define the problem before solving itComfortable with chaos and speedWe expect to fill this role in November or December 2026, so we may not be able to offer an immediate startYou must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately, we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage Why joinWork on practical autonomy problems in live retail environmentsBuild systems that ship to stores, not just demos or benchmarksInfluence technical direction earlyTake meaningful ownership in a fast-moving team