Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy Lead

Agility Robotics; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 296,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6% 401k match

Equity

Company-paid medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to own end-to-end development of humanoid robot behaviors, from high-level task logic to on-robot validation. You will lead behavior planning, integrate with motion planning and perception, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on with code and experiments.

This hybrid role offers collaboration across perception, planning, controls, hardware, and product teams, with a focus on robustness, generalization, and real-world

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience developing robotics software, autonomy systems, robot behaviors, or related real-world robotic capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience as a tech lead or senior technical owner for complex robotics projects.
• Proficient in Python and C++, and comfortable contributing to large, long-lived codebases.
• Experience with behavior trees, state machines, task planners, hierarchical planning, or similar behavior-planning frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, and validation of complex humanoid robot behaviors.
• Lead behavior planning and execution design, including task decomposition, control flow, recovery, and failure handling.
• Build new autonomy capabilities that expand what the robot can reliably do in the real world.
• Develop and evaluate manipulation strategies for new tasks, objects, workflows, and customer environments.
• Integrate robot behaviors with motion planning, controls, object perception, estimation, and hardware systems.
• Train, evaluate, and integrate learned policies into hybrid learned/classical execution workflows.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and hands-on technical guidance.

Skills

Python

C++

Behavior trees

State machines

Task planners

Hierarchical planning

Robotics software

Leadership

Education

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Agility Robotics is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to own end-to-end development of humanoid robot behaviors, from high-level task logic to on-robot validation. You will lead behavior planning, integrate with motion planning and perception, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on with code and experiments.

This hybrid role offers collaboration across perception, planning, controls, hardware, and product teams, with a focus on robustness, generalization, and real-world