Robotics Software Engineer II

Robotics Software Engineer II

Agility's commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.

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

Develop Behaviors for Humanoid Robots & Integrate into Workflows

• 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.
• Deploy classical as well as modern robotics paradigms to implement robot "skills" in order to complete variety of tasks in target domains
• Build and maintain workflows using the robot's skill API.
• Prototype new skills and customer use cases to assess their feasibility.

Enable Human-in-the-loop Interventions

• Develop the components needed to allow robots to recover from anomalous situations with human oversight
• Build the data collection pipeline to analyze and catalog task errors, and improve the robot "skills" toolset to resolve these task errors autonomously.
• Create the infrastructure needed to minimize the frequency and duration of interventions where a human is in the loop while maximizing the reach of a single human "resolver" across the humanoid fleet.

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

• 2+ years of relevant experience, including research-level and industry experience, preferably applied to mobile manipulation robots
• 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.

This position is located at one of our offices in Pittsburgh, PA or Salem, OR offices. On-site minimum 4 days/week.

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.

Anticipated Salary Range

$114,000 - $148,000 USD

In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:

• 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 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
  • Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 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.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.

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.