Device R&D jobs seem like the way to go. Will likely be a lot of matlab, labview, c, c++ etc. I know a couple people who have had careers in robotics and I myself have done some work in embodied CV. Pretty much c++ without a ton of care around connectivity. Although as a project progresses you’ll basically be stuck doing networking and boy let me tell you networking with edge devices is a lot more annoying and low level than the beautiful rest or gql endpoints most engineers work with.

TLDR: big companies make networking easy because of crud. Pretty much all software companies are just crud apps (maybe with some sockets stuff if they’re cool)