Robotics Software Engineer III — Manipulation & Learning

Agility Robotics; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan with 6% company match

Equity: Company stock options

Company-paid medical, dental, vision,

Short/long-term disability insurance

Benefits on first day of employment

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Unlimited PTO + 12 holidays (Exempt)

10 vacation days + 12 holidays (Non-Ex

Catered lunches four times a week

Parental leave

Flexible work environment

Professional development and tuition

Relocation assistance

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics in the United States is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III to join the Skills team and develop manipulation behaviors for humanoid robots. You will own a task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution, integrating learned and classical manipulation methods.

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

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience deploying manipulation behaviors on real robots.
• 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.
• Strong analytical, experimental, and debugging skills.
• Comfortable working hands-on with robotic systems in a lab environment.

Responsibilities

• Own a task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution.
• Work across learned and classical manipulation methods.
• Run iterative policy improvements across data collection, annotation, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• 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 in the real world.
• 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.
• Build general manipulation capabilities that reduce the amount of task-specific tuning.
• Experiment with off-the-shelf manipulation and perception models.
• 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

Machine Learning

Experimentation

Debugging

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics/AI/CS/ML

Job description

Agility Robotics in the United States is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III to join the Skills team and develop manipulation behaviors for humanoid robots. You will own a task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution, integrating learned and classical manipulation methods.

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