Senior Robotics Software Engineer — Manipulation

Agility Robotics; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan with company match

Equity / Company stock options

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Agility Robotics in Fremont, CA is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III to advance manipulation behaviors for humanoid robots. You will own a task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution, working across learned and classical manipulation approaches.

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 failures, and iterating until

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, CS, or a related field.
• 2+ years deploying manipulation behaviors on real robots.
• Strong Python software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with robot data collection, training, and testing on hardware.
• Familiar with grasp planning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, teleoperation, sensors, perception.
• 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, deployment.
• Collaborate with teleoperators to improve data quality and operator instructions.
• Develop grading rubrics and evaluation workflows to measure progress.
• Root cause failures using logs and state distribution analysis.
• Integrate learned policies with higher-level skills for complete robot workflows.
• Build general manipulation capabilities to reduce task-specific tuning.
• Experiment with off-the-shelf manipulation and perception models.
• Partner with ML team owning base model, LfD flywheel, and training recipes.

Skills

Python

Robotics

Data collection

Experimentation

Debugging

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics/AI/CS

Tools

ROS

Git

Linux

Job description

Agility Robotics in Fremont, CA is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III to advance manipulation behaviors for humanoid robots. You will own a task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution, working across learned and classical manipulation approaches.

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 failures, and iterating until