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Last week brought some sad (and strange) for robotics lovers as mega corporation and parent company reportedly shuttered its department.

The robotics subsidiary was born out of Alphabet鈥檚 secretive division, and produced robots known for tidying up the company offices and cafeterias, and sorting trash and recycling.

Despite this blow to the robotics world (yes, it鈥檚 a blow), robotics startups are still getting funding and hiring.

In this week鈥檚 edition of Who鈥檚 Hiring In Tech, we look at open positions at funded startups in the robotics industry in our database.

Notably, 16 companies in the appear on our broader list of , which includes funded companies that are currently hiring for multiple roles and that have not conducted reported layoffs in the past year.

Below, we highlight five of the roles from this list that caught our eye 鈥斅爐his week, all from the robotics sector.

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• Position: Robot operations
• Salary: N/A
• Location: Austin and remote hybrid
• What it does: Diligent provides robots that work in health care environments to do nonclinical tasks like transporting samples, delivering patient belongings, etc.
• Why it鈥檚 cool: This might be my new favorite startup. Started by two female founders in 2017, the company sells a nurse-like robot named Moxi. Bonus: She has 鈥渉eart鈥� eyes.
• Funding history: Diligent Robotics has raised a total of $46.6 million in funding over seven rounds. Its latest funding was raised on April 11, 2022, from a Series B round. The company is funded by 18 investors. and are its most recent backers, according to

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• Position: Director of AI
• Salary: N/A
• Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
• What it does:聽 The company produces robotic arms that offload truck inventory.
• Why it鈥檚 cool: Founded by an alumni, Pickle鈥檚 off-the-shelf robot arm is not only learning how to play Tetris, but it鈥檚 also named “Dill.” Like a pickle. Get it? Too clever.
• Funding history: Pickle Robot has raised a total of $37.5 million in funding over five rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Nov. 15, 2022, from a Series A round. Pickle Robot is funded by 12 investors. and are the most recent backers, according to

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Company:

• Position: Staff robotics platform engineer
• Salary: $150,000-$230,000
• Location: Mountain View, California
• What it does: Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous technology for long-haul trucking and (as we learned above) other purposes.
• Why it鈥檚 cool: Last year the startup won an almost $50 million contract from the to help the automate ground vehicles for high-risk jobs like surveillance and reconnaissance. Sidenote: The Army has its own 聽program. Have fun falling down .
• Funding history: Kodiak Robotics has raised a total of $244.9 million in funding over six rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Dec. 6, 2022, from a grant. Kodiak Robotics is funded by 15 investors. The U.S. Department of Defense and are its most recent backers, according to

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Company:

• Position: Hardware engineering manager
• Salary: $127,200 to $184,440
• Location: San Luis Obispo, California
• What it does: HaptX makes virtual reality gloves.
• Why it鈥檚 cool: Pretty great name since of technology that gives users a tactile response 鈥� or helps you feel something physical.
• Funding history: HaptX has raised a total of $59.5 million in funding over seven rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Sept. 15, 2022. %The company is funded by 18 investors. and are its most recent backers, according to

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Company:

• Position: Electrical engineer (robotics)
• Salary: N/A
• Location: Denver
• What it does: Prime Robotics builds robots for the logistics and manufacturing industries, namely warehouse automation.
• Why it鈥檚 cool: This is actually a lead job and the individual gets to work with the teams in both the U.S. and Prime鈥檚 other office in China. So it鈥檚 global.
• Funding history: has raised a total of over just one round, according to . Investors are unknown.

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Want to find more companies that are actively hiring? Learn more about how to use Crunchbase鈥檚 Actively Hiring feature to find companies that are hiring for multiple open positions and fit your other search criteria. You can also use Crunchbase Pro to , or check our Layoffs Tracker.

Methodology:

The full list of companies that are hiring is conducted using this . We include companies that are tagged as Actively Hiring 鈥� meaning they have multiple open roles listed 鈥� , have raised at least $1 million in total funding, and have raised funding within the past year.

The five featured roles are based on the above criteria, with Crunchbase News editors deciding which positions are interesting enough to highlight. This list is ultimately based on editors鈥� discretion.

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