H-1B Visa Robotics Engineer Jobs
Robotics Engineer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under the engineering and computer science categories, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. Employers in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, and tech consistently file LCAs for these roles, making this one of the more active H-1B job categories in the country.
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Get Access To All JobsPosition: Simulation Engineer/ Robotics Engineer
Location: Boston MA 02210
Duration: 7 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Payrate: $108.00 - 108.00/hr.
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.
Job Description:
You'll create, import, and maintain high-fidelity 3D models of robotic workcells, converting CAD designs into simulation-ready assets that enable robot motion planning, controls development, and system validation before physical hardware exists.
Purpose of the Team and key projects:
- Import a new robot prototype station from SolidWorks CAD into the simulator with accurate arm kinematics, rail geometry, sensor placement, and tote collision models
- Tune simulation assets to balance detail vs execution speed of simulation
- Convert OBJ collision meshes to VTK tetrahedral format to improve physics contact accuracy for robotic manipulation
- Build a model validation script that checks inertia values, texture transparency, and mesh integrity at build time
Task Breakdown and Workflow:
- 3D Asset Pipeline: Convert SolidWorks/CAD assemblies into simulation-ready formats (SDF, URDF, glTF, VTK) with accurate kinematics, collision geometry, inertia properties, and visual materials (PBR)
- Station Configuration: Build and maintain robotic workcell configurations including robot arms, rails, sensors, end-effectors, pods, conveyors, and environmental structures
- Collision Modeling: Create and optimize collision meshes using tetrahedral meshing workflows (RoLoPoly, TetGen, Drake mesh refiner) for accurate physics contact simulation
- Sensor Setup: Configure simulated cameras, depth sensors, and other perception hardware with accurate field-of-view parameters
- Validation: Build model integrity tests, verify FK/IK accuracy against real hardware, and maintain asset quality standards (mass, inertia, texture transparency, mesh integrity)
- Customer Delivery: Independently manage asset import/update requests from robotics program teams, meeting SLA timelines for new station deliveries
What makes this role interesting:
- This role sits at the intersection of 3D content creation and robotics engineering.
- You’ll work directly with mechanical engineers, controls teams, and simulation developers to translate hardware designs into accurate digital twins.
- You’ll operate with the autonomy and ownership expected of an L5 individual contributor.
- Independently driving asset delivery end-to-end, making technical trade-offs, and influencing modeling standards across the team.
Leadership Principles:
- Ownership
- Dive deep
Required Skills:
- 5+ years professional SW development experience.
- 1+ year working with 3D modeling tools (Blender, SolidWorks, Maya, or equivalent)
- Experience with robotics simulation formats: URDF, SDF, MJCF, or similar
- Familiarity with mesh processing: decimation, convex decomposition, tetrahedral meshing, collision geometry generation
- Understanding of rigid body kinematics (joint types, coordinate frames, forward/inverse kinematics)
- Proficiency in Python for scripting asset pipelines and automation
- 1+ year cumulative experience with at least one of: game engines (Unreal, Unity), physics engines (Drake, MuJoCo, Bullet, PhysX), or robotics simulation platforms (Gazebo, Isaac Sim)
- Demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver technical work with minimal oversight
Nice to haves:
- Experience with USD (Universal Scene Description) model format
- Familiarity with PBR materials, glTF format, and real-time rendering pipelines
- C++ experience (our simulator core is C++)
- Web 3D visualization (Three.js, WebGL)
- Understanding of simulation contact models and deformable body simulation
- Experience converting CAD (SolidWorks, STEP, IGES) to simulation-ready assets
- Familiarity with camera simulation (intrinsics, distortion models, synthetic data generation)
Must Have Hard Skills:
- SW development experience
- 1+ year working with 3D modeling tools (Blender, SolidWorks, Maya, or equivalent)
- Experience with robotics simulation formats: URDF, SDF, MJCF, or similar
- Familiarity with mesh processing: decimation, convex decomposition, tetrahedral meshing, collision geometry generation
- 1+ year cumulative experience with at least one of: game engines (Unreal, Unity), physics engines (Drake, MuJoCo, Bullet, PhysX), or robotics simulation platforms (Gazebo, Isaac Sim)
TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Position: Simulation Engineer/ Robotics Engineer
Location: Boston MA 02210
Duration: 7 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Payrate: $108.00 - 108.00/hr.
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.
Job Description:
You'll create, import, and maintain high-fidelity 3D models of robotic workcells, converting CAD designs into simulation-ready assets that enable robot motion planning, controls development, and system validation before physical hardware exists.
Purpose of the Team and key projects:
- Import a new robot prototype station from SolidWorks CAD into the simulator with accurate arm kinematics, rail geometry, sensor placement, and tote collision models
- Tune simulation assets to balance detail vs execution speed of simulation
- Convert OBJ collision meshes to VTK tetrahedral format to improve physics contact accuracy for robotic manipulation
- Build a model validation script that checks inertia values, texture transparency, and mesh integrity at build time
Task Breakdown and Workflow:
- 3D Asset Pipeline: Convert SolidWorks/CAD assemblies into simulation-ready formats (SDF, URDF, glTF, VTK) with accurate kinematics, collision geometry, inertia properties, and visual materials (PBR)
- Station Configuration: Build and maintain robotic workcell configurations including robot arms, rails, sensors, end-effectors, pods, conveyors, and environmental structures
- Collision Modeling: Create and optimize collision meshes using tetrahedral meshing workflows (RoLoPoly, TetGen, Drake mesh refiner) for accurate physics contact simulation
- Sensor Setup: Configure simulated cameras, depth sensors, and other perception hardware with accurate field-of-view parameters
- Validation: Build model integrity tests, verify FK/IK accuracy against real hardware, and maintain asset quality standards (mass, inertia, texture transparency, mesh integrity)
- Customer Delivery: Independently manage asset import/update requests from robotics program teams, meeting SLA timelines for new station deliveries
What makes this role interesting:
- This role sits at the intersection of 3D content creation and robotics engineering.
- You’ll work directly with mechanical engineers, controls teams, and simulation developers to translate hardware designs into accurate digital twins.
- You’ll operate with the autonomy and ownership expected of an L5 individual contributor.
- Independently driving asset delivery end-to-end, making technical trade-offs, and influencing modeling standards across the team.
Leadership Principles:
- Ownership
- Dive deep
Required Skills:
- 5+ years professional SW development experience.
- 1+ year working with 3D modeling tools (Blender, SolidWorks, Maya, or equivalent)
- Experience with robotics simulation formats: URDF, SDF, MJCF, or similar
- Familiarity with mesh processing: decimation, convex decomposition, tetrahedral meshing, collision geometry generation
- Understanding of rigid body kinematics (joint types, coordinate frames, forward/inverse kinematics)
- Proficiency in Python for scripting asset pipelines and automation
- 1+ year cumulative experience with at least one of: game engines (Unreal, Unity), physics engines (Drake, MuJoCo, Bullet, PhysX), or robotics simulation platforms (Gazebo, Isaac Sim)
- Demonstrated ability to independently own and deliver technical work with minimal oversight
Nice to haves:
- Experience with USD (Universal Scene Description) model format
- Familiarity with PBR materials, glTF format, and real-time rendering pipelines
- C++ experience (our simulator core is C++)
- Web 3D visualization (Three.js, WebGL)
- Understanding of simulation contact models and deformable body simulation
- Experience converting CAD (SolidWorks, STEP, IGES) to simulation-ready assets
- Familiarity with camera simulation (intrinsics, distortion models, synthetic data generation)
Must Have Hard Skills:
- SW development experience
- 1+ year working with 3D modeling tools (Blender, SolidWorks, Maya, or equivalent)
- Experience with robotics simulation formats: URDF, SDF, MJCF, or similar
- Familiarity with mesh processing: decimation, convex decomposition, tetrahedral meshing, collision geometry generation
- 1+ year cumulative experience with at least one of: game engines (Unreal, Unity), physics engines (Drake, MuJoCo, Bullet, PhysX), or robotics simulation platforms (Gazebo, Isaac Sim)
TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Robotics Engineer
Match your degree to your target role
H-1B eligibility requires your degree field to directly relate to the specific robotics role. A mechanical engineering degree supports actuator and motion control work; a computer science degree supports perception and autonomy roles. Mismatches between degree and job function are a common RFE trigger.
Use OFLC LCA data to target active sponsors
Search Migrate Mate to identify employers with verified LCA filing history for Robotics Engineer positions. Companies actively filing LCAs have already cleared the DOL prevailing-wage step, which signals a real, sponsor-ready opening rather than a speculative listing.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Your H-1B offer must meet DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Run the OFLC Wage Search before signing anything. Wages below the Level I or Level II threshold for robotics roles in your metro area create compliance problems the employer can't easily fix post-filing.
Understand cap-exempt employer options
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government research organizations are cap-exempt and can file H-1B petitions year-round without lottery registration. Robotics research labs at these institutions regularly sponsor engineers, and cap-exempt filings have no April 1 start-date restriction.
Confirm your employer files I-129 before your OPT expires
If you're on STEM OPT, your employer must file Form I-129 before your EAD expires. Robotics roles often involve long technical negotiations before an offer is formalized. Push for a signed offer at least four months before your OPT end date to give USCIS enough runway for standard processing.
Build a portfolio showing specialization, not just experience
H-1B specialty occupation determinations for robotics hinge on whether the role genuinely requires a specific degree. Document projects by technical domain, like ROS implementations, computer vision pipelines, or force-torque control, so the O*NET job zone classification in your I-129 is easy for USCIS to validate.
H-1B Visa Robotics Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Robotics Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. Robotics Engineer positions consistently meet the USCIS specialty occupation standard because they require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field, typically mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or robotics. The key is that the job posting and employer attestation must describe duties that genuinely require that degree, not just prefer it. Generic job titles with vague duties are the common reason for specialty occupation RFEs in this field.
Which industries file the most H-1B LCAs for Robotics Engineer positions?
Automotive manufacturing, aerospace and defense, industrial automation, and consumer electronics companies file the highest volume of LCAs for Robotics Engineer roles. Research institutions and university-affiliated labs also sponsor heavily and have the added advantage of cap-exempt status. You can browse employers with active filing history directly on Migrate Mate, filtered by occupation and location.
Can my employer file my H-1B petition before the lottery if I'm still on OPT?
Yes. Your employer can register you in the H-1B lottery starting in March of the fiscal year preceding your intended start date. If selected, they file Form I-129 in April for an October 1 start. If you're on STEM OPT with a remaining authorization window, this timeline typically works without a gap, but confirm your OPT expiration date against the October 1 employment start.
What happens to my H-1B status if a robotics project ends and my role changes significantly?
A material change in job duties, work location, or wage level requires your employer to file an amended H-1B petition with USCIS before the change takes effect. For robotics engineers, moving from a hardware-focused role to a software-only role, or transferring to a different state facility, both trigger this requirement. Working outside the approved petition terms before the amendment is filed puts your status at risk.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage requirement work for Robotics Engineer roles?
The DOL requires your employer to pay at least the prevailing wage for your specific SOC code and the geographic area where you'll work. Robotics Engineer roles typically map to mechanical or electrical engineering codes, which carry different wage levels by metro area. Your employer certifies this wage when filing the LCA with DOL before submitting the H-1B petition to USCIS. You can cross-check the applicable wage level using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating any offer.