Robotics Software Engineer III — Hands-on Manipulation

Agility Robotics; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Health, dental, vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Agility Robotics in Pittsburgh is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III to join our Skills team and develop manipulation behaviours for humanoid robots.

You will run our LfD flywheel end-to-end for manipulation tasks: collecting data, defining operator instructions, improving data quality, setting up grading rubrics, training policies, evaluating failures, and iterating until the behavior is robust enough for real deployments.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python.
• Experience with robot data collection, training, and testing on hardware to perform manipulation tasks.
• Familiarity with grasp planning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, force control, teleoperation, robot sensors, visual servoing, and object perception.
• Hands-on experience with robotic systems in a lab.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with teleoperators to improve data quality and operator instructions.
• Develop grading rubrics and evaluation workflows that make progress measurable, where success gets measured by policies that act more reliably on real robots.
• Root cause failures using logs, replays, and analysis of state distributions.
• Integrate learned policies with higher-level skills so they can execute inside complete robot workflows.
• Partner with the ML team that owns the base large behavior model, LfD flywheel, and training recipes used to post-train policies for specific manipulation tasks.

Skills

Python

Robotics software

Reinforcement learning

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, CS, ML

Job description

Agility Robotics in Pittsburgh is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III to join our Skills team and develop manipulation behaviours for humanoid robots.

You will run our LfD flywheel end-to-end for manipulation tasks: collecting data, defining operator instructions, improving data quality, setting up grading rubrics, training policies, evaluating failures, and iterating until the behavior is robust enough for real deployments.