Senior Robotics Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to lead the design and development of robot behaviors that expand and generalize our humanoid robot’s real-world capabilities. In this role, you will own behavior design end-to-end, from high-level task logic and system design down to on-robot validation and deployment. You will work at the intersection of behavior planning, motion planning, and manipulation, developing new autonomy capabilities and pushing the robot into new classes of tasks. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who enjoys designing complex behavior systems, working closely with motion planners and hardware, and seeing new capabilities come to life on real robots.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own the design and implementation of complex robot behaviors.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead behavior planning and execution design, including task decomposition, control flow, and failure handling.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop new autonomy capabilities that expand what the robot can reliably do in the real world.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work closely with motion planning, controls, and perception engineers to integrate behaviors with underlying systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design and implement new behaviors end-to-end, from initial concept through deployment.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop and evaluate new manipulation strategies for novel tasks, objects, and environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Support the integration of new end effectors, tools, and hardware capabilities into the behavior stack.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Generalize behaviors across tasks, object types, and environments to reduce custom logic.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Define what “production-ready” means for new behaviors and drive the validation strategy to meet reliability goals.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Debug complex system-level failures using logs, replay, and on-robot experimentation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical direction and best practices within the team.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About You</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5+ years of professional experience developing robotics software, autonomy systems, or robot behaviors (or equivalent experience through advanced degrees and hands-on research).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong proficiency in Python; comfortable contributing to large, long-lived codebases.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Solid experience working in Linux-based development environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on experience designing robot behaviors, task planners, or autonomy systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with behavior trees, state machines, task planners, or similar behavior-planning frameworks.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with motion planning and behavior planning for robots or other autonomous systems, with a strong understanding of how these systems interact.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience working with complex algorithms and data pipelines, with an ability to optimize for performance, robustness, and scalability.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong system-level understanding of how motion planning, perception, and control interact on real robots.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Comfortable designing autonomy systems that operate under uncertainty and recover from failure.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience collaborating across perception, planning, controls, and hardware teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Comfortable operating at the system-design level while still being hands-on with implementation and on-robot testing.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong ownership mindset with a focus on robustness, generalization, and real-world reliability.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Bonus Points</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience developing manipulation strategies for complex or unstructured environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience integrating new hardware capabilities (e.g., end effectors, sensors, tools) into autonomous systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience deploying and supporting autonomous robots in real customer environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Full-time Employees are eligible for Benefits:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>401(k) Plan:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Includes a 6% company match.</li> <li><strong>Equity:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Company stock options.</li> <li><strong>Insurance Coverage:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.</li> <li><strong>Benefit Start Date:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.</li> <li><strong>Well-Being Support:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Employee Assistance Program (EAP).</li> <li><strong>Time Off:</strong> <ul> <li><strong>Exempt Employees:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.</li> <li><strong>Non-Exempt Employees:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>On-Site Perks:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.</li> <li><strong>Parental Leave:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Generous paid parental leave programs.</li> <li><strong>Work Environment:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.</li> <li><strong>Growth Opportunities:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.</li> <li><strong>Relocation Assistance:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Provided for eligible roles.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies.&nbsp; We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page.&nbsp; If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered.&nbsp; To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Apply Now: <a href="https://grnh.se/b444bbd04us" target="_blank">https://grnh.se/b444bbd04us</a></p></div>