Navigating the Industry Job Search as a Robotics PhD in 2026. | Nishanth J. Kumar

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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 enough that I thought it might be useful for me to write up. So here is my contribution to the “job search advice for PhD’s” genre. Obligatory disclaimers: this is heavily geared to robotics/embodied…

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