Full Time: Systems Engineering Senior

Senior Systems Engineer
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.
Agility Robotics is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots designed to operate in real-world environments. Our mission is to build robots that seamlessly integrate into human workflows, solving complex challenges in logistics, manufacturing, and beyond. As we scale, we are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to strengthen our Systems Engineering team—ensuring structured, scalable development processes while maintaining the agility and execution speed required in a fast-paced startup environment.
Travel to our Salem headquarters, occasionally one week per month, will be required.
As a Senior Systems Engineer for Software at Agility Robotics, you'll drive system-level architecture and integration for our humanoid robot platform. Working within a high-impact Systems Engineering team, you'll take ownership of requirements, interfaces, and cross-functional integration—bringing clarity and structure to complex systems while maintaining speed of execution.
This role is ideal for a hands-on technical contributor who thrives in ambiguity, demonstrates systems thinking, and has a passion for building real systems fast. You'll apply structured engineering methods while maintaining the agility and pragmatism needed to ship products.
Define and document system and subsystem architectures spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software domains. Drive trade studies with focus on simplicity, performance, cost, and execution speed.
Requirements Engineering: Own software subsystem-level requirements through their full lifecycle—writing, decomposing, validating, and tracking execution. Compliance & Functional Safety: Ensure system designs meet industry standards and regulatory requirements. Facilitate functional safety analysis including hazard analysis, risk assessment, and safety case development. Drive compliance activities for certification, software development, and software deployment.
Interface Management: Develop and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs). Operational Excellence: Identify and eliminate operational inefficiencies through systematic analysis of field performance data, customer workflows, and deployment scenarios. Implement design improvements that directly enhance system reliability, maintainability, and performance.
Technical Execution: Participate in design reviews, integration efforts, and root cause analysis. Identify risks, lead trade studies, and influence decisions from a systems perspective.
Field-Focused Problem Solving: Proactively analyze customer deployment scenarios, field feedback, and operational data to identify and solve system-level issues before they impact production or customers.
5+ years of Systems Engineering experience in robotics, aerospace, automotive, or similar multidisciplinary hardware/software systems
~ Experience integrating new software capabilities into autonomous systems

Strong proficiency with V-model systems engineering approaches, adapted for rapid development
Proven ability to logically decompose functional requirements for software
06, or similar) and regulatory frameworks for robotics systems in manufacturing/warehousing environments
Demonstrated ability to conduct hazard analysis, risk assessment, and safety case development. Experience collaborating with Test Engineering on system-level validation strategies
Proficiency with systems engineering tools (requirements management, modeling, etc.)
Operational efficiency analysis: Proven track record of identifying inefficiencies in complex systems and implementing measurable improvements to performance, reliability, and maintainability
Evidence of looking ahead to solve problems before they occur—examples might include analyzing field data to prevent failures, designing for customer deployment scenarios, or identifying integration risks early in development
Customer-focused systems perspective: Experience translating field feedback, customer requirements, or operational constraints into actionable system design changes
This a hybrid position based out of one of our Fremont, CA office.
Agility Robotics is a multi-state employer and this salary range may not reflect positions who work in other locations. In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:

• Equity: Company stock options.
• Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• 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.
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.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. 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.