Hiring trends
Physical AI Job Trends
A current view of open Physical AI roles across robotics, autonomy, simulation, perception, controls, remote work, locations, and top hiring companies.
Last updated from public job data: October 7, 2026
Open jobs
4,729
Companies hiring
110
Hiring cities
312
Countries
38
Age of today's open job inventory
Jobs that are open today, grouped by their recorded posting month. When no posting date is available, we use when the job entered our dataset.
Most active job areas
| Job area | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Physical AI Jobs | 3,549 | 75% |
| Autonomy Jobs | 3,325 | 70% |
| Robotics Jobs | 3,097 | 65% |
| Simulation Jobs | 1,996 | 42% |
| Robot Perception Engineer Jobs | 1,540 | 33% |
| Controls Engineer Jobs | 1,204 | 25% |
| Embodied AI Jobs | 927 | 20% |
| SLAM Engineer Jobs | 595 | 13% |
| SLAM Jobs | 595 | 13% |
| Motion Planning Jobs | 581 | 12% |
| ROS Jobs | 436 | 9% |
| Robotics Engineer Jobs | 301 | 6% |
Remote and onsite mix
Unspecified
2,689
57%
Onsite
1,444
31%
Hybrid
441
9%
Remote
155
3%
Top companies hiring
Top hiring cities
Methodology
Trends use approved public jobs currently listed on Physical AI Jobs. Topic counts come from the site’s topic matching layer. Location data uses normalized job locations when available.
This page shows the current market snapshot. The posting-month chart groups jobs by their recorded publication timestamp, falling back to when the record entered our dataset when necessary. It is an age distribution of jobs open today, not a historical hiring-growth series. Historical daily snapshots are required for a true open-job trend index.