Navigating the Industry Job Search as a Robotics PhD in 2026.

After having decided to wrap up my PhD and graduate, I recently found myself having to go through the actual industry job search process. Fortunately for me, a number of other people have written useful guides and advice on how to effectively search for a research-adjacent job in AI (see this, this, this, and this). However, my experience looking for jobs in robotics ended up being different…