Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Robotics Software Engineer to join our Skills team, focused on developing, testing, validating, and integrating robot skills into real customer workflows. In this role, you will operate at the boundary between prototype and production, working directly with our humanoid robot to evaluate performance, root-cause failures, and collect targeted teleop data to improve learned behaviors. You will be hands-on with hardware nearly every day, helping bring new customer workflows online and ensuring existing deployments remain reliable. You will define test plans, execute experiments, and validate that our behaviors meet autonomy and performance requirements. You’ll also partner with AI teams to refine learned policies using real-world data.
Key Responsibilities
Humanoid Feature Skill Development & Workflow Integration
- Develop and maintain the core library of production-ready skills that form the foundation of customer workflows.
- Script new skills using behavior trees, state machines, or task planners, defining control flow logic and behavior sequencing.
- Build and maintain workflows using the robot’s skill API.
- Prototype new skills and customer use cases to assess their feasibility.
Teleop Engineering
- Replay failed robot trajectories to diagnose complex failure modes and identify gaps in training data.
- Collect high-quality, targeted teleop data to improve skill policies.
- Set up training environments, run evaluation scripts, and analyze performance.
- Partner with AI teams to tune skill policies and provide actionable feedback from testing.
Testing, Validation & Deployment
- Define what “production-ready” means for each skill or workflow and design the test plans and infrastructure to validate it.
- Recreate corner cases from logs and failures into repeatable tests.
- Validate new skills and workflows both in simulation and on hardware before release.
- Travel occasionally (<10%) to customer sites to assist in deployment, perform hands-on validation, and support tuning efforts.
About You
- You have a B.S. or M.S. in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- You are proficient in Python and write clean code.
- You have experience with Linux systems.
- You are excited about developing physical robot behaviors, not just running simulations. You enjoy getting your hands dirty, iterating on hardware, and watching your work come to life in the field.
- You are curious about how autonomous robots work end-to-end, from low-level control to high-level task planning, and want to help bridge the gap between behavior design and real-world deployment.
- You have a strong sense of ownership and pride in the reliability of your work. You sweat the details and are always looking to eliminate failure modes.
Bonus Qualifications
- Prior experience scripting robot behaviors using state machines, behavior trees, or other control flow logic.
- Understanding of robot manipulation, motion planning, and kinematics (e.g., familiarity with MoveIt framework).
- Hands-on experience collecting and curating teleop datasets for training or evaluating learned policies.
- Experience developing AR/VR applications for robot teleoperation.
- Exposure to test-driven development, automated regression testing, and CI/CD workflows.
- Experience operating autonomous robots in customer environments or real-world deployments.
Benefits
- 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
- Equity: Company stock options.
- Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
- Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Time Off:
- Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
- Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.
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