Senior Perception AI Engineer for Humanoid Robots (Remote)

Agility Robotics; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 238,000 - 372,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan with 6% match

Equity stock options

100% company-paid medical, dental, and

Vision coverage

Well-being support

Unlimited PTO

12 company holidays

Catered lunches and healthy snacks

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Agility Robotics seeks a Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception to own the technical vision and system architecture for how Digit perceives and stays safe as it moves into open environments. You will define architecture across sensing modalities, latency, and robustness, and mentor teams while collaborating with safety and systems engineering.

You will stay hands-on to prototype and validate critical components, evaluate new research, and set verification standards for ML-based perception

Qualifications

• 8+ years in machine learning/perception for robotics
• Master's or Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience architecting ML/perception systems for safety-critical or safety-rated contexts
• Deep expertise in deep convolutional neural networks, multi-object tracking, data association, supervised learning, and pose estimation
• Experience making system-level tradeoffs across sensing modalities, redundancy, and compute constraints on embedded/real-time hardware
• A track record of setting technical direction at an organization level
• Publications in CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA preferred

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and system architecture for Perception that enables safety and efficiency, defining how Digit will perceive and reason about humans and hazards as it expands from structured work cells into open, dynamic environments.
• Analyze key architectural tradeoffs across sensing modalities, model design, redundancy, and compute budget, balancing safety, latency, and real-world robustness.
• Stay hands-on with development to prototype, validate, or build critical pieces yourself.
• Partner with functional safety and systems engineering to define the safety case strategy, identifying what architecture and evidence will be required.
• Support failure mode and hazard analysis at the system level, shaping which risks the architecture must design around.
• Evaluate emerging research and technology, and decide what's worth adopting into future robot architectures.
• Set standards for verification and validation of ML-based perception systems, especially for rare and safety-critical scenarios.
• Collaborate across navigation, controls, and hardware to make sure the perception architecture serves the whole robot.
• Act as a senior technical mentor and partner to engineers and technical leads across the organization, and represent the architecture to executive leadership, partners, and customers as needed.

Skills

Machine learning for robotics

Perception systems

System architecture

Safety-critical systems

Deep CNNs

Multi-object tracking

Data association

Pose estimation

Embedded/real-time compute

Technical leadership

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in AI, Robotics, CS or related field

Job description

Agility Robotics seeks a Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception to own the technical vision and system architecture for how Digit perceives and stays safe as it moves into open environments. You will define architecture across sensing modalities, latency, and robustness, and mentor teams while collaborating with safety and systems engineering.

You will stay hands-on to prototype and validate critical components, evaluate new research, and set verification standards for ML-based perception