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Staff Robotics Software Engineer, AI Manipulation

Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics Salary
Remote, OR Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 2/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/29/2025

Job Description

Job Description

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

Our software team is growing and we are looking for a talented engineer to join our agile, world-class team. In this role you will develop manipulation behaviors and grasp planning algorithms for humanoid robots to manipulate the world around it. You will work closely with state estimation, navigation, and controls teams to execute your planning algorithms aimed at solving challenging problems in real-world deployments.

About The Work

  • Design, implement, test, and deploy contact rich manipulation behaviors for humanoid robots
  • Develop manipulation strategies and behaviors robust to environmental uncertainty and imperfect state estimation
  • Contribute to the software architecture and design of the autonomy stack
  • Collaborate with members of the autonomy teams to solve complex cross functional problems
  • Engineer high quality software that is well tested, reliable and maintainable

About You

Technical Experience

  • Experience with reinforcement learning, diffusion models, and learning from demonstration
  • Experience leveraging machine learning to improve grasp behaviors and object manipulation
  • Industry experience developing and deploying manipulation algorithms on high-DOF robots in real world applications
  • Experience with perception and scene understanding especially as it pertains to manipulation behaviors
  • Experience using simulation tools such as Isaac Sim / Mojoco / Drake / gazebo or similar
  • Technical Qualifications

  • MS or Ph.D. in robotics, computer science, or related field or have equivalent industry experience
  • Strong robotics fundamentals, including kinematics, dynamics, sensing, control, and motion behaviors
  • Strong software experience in modern C and Python
  • Deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and / or JAX
  • You might also have

  • Experience working with humanoid (or similar) robots
  • Experience working with multi modal exteroceptive sensors (e.g. force, haptic, tactile, vision)
  • Experience in orchestrating a scalable automated testing pipeline for simulation
  • Experience in classical robotics motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms
  • Publications in your field (RSS, ICRA, IROS preferred)
  • 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 twice 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.

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