Junior Robotics Engineer

Cota Robotics puts robots to work in retail stores. They take on the repetitive, time-consuming jobs like stocking shelves, inbounding goods 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 ROLE You’ll help build the autonomy that lets our robots stock shelves in live stores. You’ll work closely with our hardware engineers and see your code run on robots in stores within weeks. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Develop, test and deploy manipulation and navigation behaviors on real robots - Combine learned policies (including VLAs) with classical planning, perception and control - Use teleoperation and store data to improve the robots - Own problems from first prototype to shipped behavior WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - A degree in robotics, computer science, engineering physics or similar - Hands-on experience getting software to run on real robots or hardware - Comfortable with general software development practices, with a good understanding of how the work actually gets done - A very fast learner, comfortable with chaos and speed - Fluent in English - You must already have the right to work in Sweden, as unfortunately, we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at our current stage How to apply: Tell us about something you built and got running on a robot or other hardware, and link to it (repo, video, paper, or project). WHY JOIN - Ship to real stores from day one - Learn fast from senior engineers and field deployments - Meaningful equity and real ownership early