Senior Robotics Software Engineer — Robotic Manipulation

Agility Robotics; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan (6% match)

Equity (stock options)

Insurance Coverage (medical/dental/vis

Benefit Start Date on day one

Well-Being Support (EAP)

Time Off: flexible/12 holidays

On-Site Perks: catered lunches & sn

Parental Leave

Growth Opportunities

Relocation Assistance

Annual Discretionary Bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics 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, leveraging both learned and classical methods.

You will lead the LfD flywheel for data collection, training, and evaluation, ensuring robust policies for real deployments while collaborating with teleoperators and ML teams.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience deploying manipulation behaviors on real robots.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python.
• Experience with robot data collection, training, and testing on hardware to perform manipulation tasks.
• Familiarity with grasp planning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, force control, teleoperation, robot sensors, visual servoing, and object perception.
• Strong analytical, experimental, and debugging skills.
• Comfortable working 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, and deployment.
• Work closely with teleoperators to improve data quality and operator instructions.
• Develop grading rubrics and evaluation workflows that make progress measurable, where success gets measured by policies that act more reliably on real robots in the real world.
• Root cause failures using logs, replays, and analysis of state distributions.
• Integrate learned policies with higher-level skills so they can execute inside complete robot workflows.
• Build general manipulation capabilities that reduce the amount of task-specific tuning.
• Experiment with off-the-shelf manipulation and perception models.
• Partner with the ML team that owns the base large behavior model, LfD flywheel, and training recipes used to post-train policies for specific manipulation tasks

Skills

Python

Robotics

Software engineering

Real-robot deployment

Data analysis

Education

MS/PhD in Robotics or CS

Job description

Agility Robotics 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, leveraging both learned and classical methods.

You will lead the LfD flywheel for data collection, training, and evaluation, ensuring robust policies for real deployments while collaborating with teleoperators and ML teams.