Remote Lead Motion Planning Architect – Humanoid Robots

Agility Robotics; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 216,000 - 337,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6% 401k company match

Stock options

Company-paid health/dental/vision

Unlimited PTO

12 company holidays

Relocation assistance

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics is seeking an experienced technical leader to own the motion planning roadmap for our humanoid robots. You will shape collision-free planning, trajectory optimization, and integration with perception, estimation, and control to deliver reliable, real-world deployments.

You will collaborate across autonomy, controls, and behaviors teams, mentor senior engineers, and drive architecture decisions for modular, observable systems in a fully remote role with optional hybrid work.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and deploying manipulation algorithms on high-DOF robots.
• Industry experience deploying mobile manipulation robots in real-world commercial applications.
• Proven expertise in sample-based motion planning, trajectory optimization, and model predictive control (MPC) with a track record of shipping these algorithms to production.
• Expertise developing planning and optimization algorithms subject to geometric and kinodynamic constraints, including contact, friction, and collision.
• Deep mathematical fundamentals in search and numerical optimization, including convex and non-convex problem formulation.
• Expertise in modern C++ (C++17/20) and Python for high-performance, multithreaded, real-time robotics applications.
• Track record architecting large-scale autonomy systems and defining clean interfaces across perception, estimation, planning, and control.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: setting direction for complex robotics systems, owning architecture, and mentoring senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical roadmap for collision-free motion planning across whole-body motion, manipulation, grasping, and loco-manipulation
• Design, implement, test, and deploy motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for humanoid robots
• Architect motion planning systems for modularity, observability, and clean integration with perception, state estimation, and control
• Develop algorithms robust to environmental uncertainty and imperfect state estimation
• Lead cross-team architectural decisions and collaborate with autonomy, controls, and behaviors teams to solve complex system-level problems

Skills

Motion planning

C++ (modern)

Python

Optimization

Robotics systems

Team leadership

Tools

C++17/20

Job description

Agility Robotics is seeking an experienced technical leader to own the motion planning roadmap for our humanoid robots. You will shape collision-free planning, trajectory optimization, and integration with perception, estimation, and control to deliver reliable, real-world deployments.

You will collaborate across autonomy, controls, and behaviors teams, mentor senior engineers, and drive architecture decisions for modular, observable systems in a fully remote role with optional hybrid work.