Senior AI Robotics Research Engineer — RL & Imitation

Agility Robotics; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity incentives

Full medical coverage

401(k) with company match

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Agility Robotics is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots for real-world tasks. The AI innovation team focuses on imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and foundation models to enable robots to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments.

You will mentor junior engineers, shape the research roadmap, and drive rigorous experimentation across robot learning programs. You will design robust locomotion and manipulation policies, build scalable RL infrastructure, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• 7+ years of total experience in software engineering and/or AI/robotics.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying learning-from-demonstration, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, foundation models, or related robot learning systems
• Proven ability to mentor and develop junior engineers or researchers, raising the technical bar of a team.
• Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and influencing technical direction from research through deployment.
• Strong programming skills in Python, with proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Establish team-level standards for research execution, including experiment tracking and evaluation protocols.
• Mentor and guide junior AI research engineers through project design and execution.
• Drive alignment across AI Research and Robotics teams on methods and deployment readiness.
• Review experimental design, code, and results for rigor and reproducibility.
• Help onboard new researchers and accelerate their effectiveness in robot learning workflows.
• Design, train, and deploy robust policies for locomotion, manipulation, and dynamic interactions.
• Develop core reinforcement learning infrastructure, including scalable training pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
• Design and implement new simulation environments and tasks for training and deployment of control policies.
• Collaborate with Robotics Software and AI engineering teams to transfer policies to production.

Skills

Robotics software

Python programming

Mentoring

Research leadership

Experiment design

Education

MS in Robotics

MS in Computer Science

PhD in Robotics (bonus)

Tools

PyTorch

DiffusionPolicy

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Job description

Agility Robotics is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots for real-world tasks. The AI innovation team focuses on imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and foundation models to enable robots to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments.

You will mentor junior engineers, shape the research roadmap, and drive rigorous experimentation across robot learning programs. You will design robust locomotion and manipulation policies, build scalable RL infrastructure, and collaborate with