Senior AI Robotics Research Engineer — Hybrid

Agility Robotics; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Equity

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short/long-term disability

Job summary

Agility Robotics is hiring for an AI/Robotics role focused on building and testing imitation and reinforcement learning methods for humanoid robots. You will run experiments on hardware, develop production-ready policies, and collaborate with software and AI teams to transfer methods to real-world deployment.

The role offers a hybrid work setup with offices in Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont, and a compensation package reflecting the US market.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing and deploying learning-from-demonstration
• Strong programming skills in Python, with proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Experience with modern learning-from-demonstration tools like DiffusionPolicy
• Experience with robot data collection, training, and testing on hardware to perform manipulation tasks.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment to deliver safe, high-quality software
• MS in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy robust policies for locomotion, manipulation, and dynamic interactions with the environment.
• Develop core reinforcement learning infrastructure, including scalable training pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
• Design and implement new simulation environments and tasks to support training and deployment of control policies.
• Develop, design, and test imitation learning methods
• Collaborate with Robotics Software and AI engineering teams to develop policies which can be transferred to production

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Learning-from-demonstration

Robotics data collection

Collaboration

DiffusionPolicy

Education

MS in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

DiffusionPolicy

Mujoco

Isaac Sim

Job description

Agility Robotics is hiring for an AI/Robotics role focused on building and testing imitation and reinforcement learning methods for humanoid robots. You will run experiments on hardware, develop production-ready policies, and collaborate with software and AI teams to transfer methods to real-world deployment.

The role offers a hybrid work setup with offices in Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont, and a compensation package reflecting the US market.