Staff Robotics Architect - Embedded Systems (Remote-ready)

Energize Group; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Agility Robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Staff Robotics Architect - Embedded Systems to define the hardware and software integration for our humanoid platforms. You will lead end-to-end architecture across sensing, compute, actuation, safety, and control, partnering with software, mechanical, and systems teams to deliver scalable robotic solutions.

This senior role emphasizes technical leadership, system modeling, and hands-on collaboration to advance our product roadmap,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of robotics embedded system development experience as a senior or lead engineer.
• 3+ years development experience with actuation, sensor, and component driver hardware as a senior lead engineer.
• Strong familiarity with Firmware Development.
• Strong familiarity with Network Integration.
• Deep understanding of robotic system design including tradeoffs in cost, power, heat, sensing, compute, and safety.
• Proven experience in designing and delivering complex electromechanical robotic systems into field or commercial deployment from ideation to production.
• Familiarity with functional safety concepts, Product FuSa Certifications, FMEA/FMECA, and hazard analysis in robotic systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing decisions across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end development and validation of robot architecture for Embedded Systems, Network, Compute, and Control/Driver Hardware.
• Gather and translate requirements from our various teams into technical architectures that drive product excellence.
• Provide technical direction across cross functional teams, guiding the ingestion of complex architecture design into high-performance robotic products.
• Lead trade studies and architecture reviews balancing performance, functional safety, complexity, manufacturability, cost, and reliability.
• Partner with cross functional teams including software, controls, and simulation teams to ensure architectural decisions are grounded in system-level modeling, simulation, and performance analysis.
• Collaborate closely with software, systems engineering, test, and integration teams to ensure architecture translates into testable, traceable requirements.
• Influence long-term roadmap and product direction by translating user needs, field performance, and R&D findings into architectural evolution.

Skills

Robotics embedded systems

Actuation and sensors

Firmware development

Network integration

System architecture

Functional safety

Communication and collaboration

Education

PhD or MS in Robotics/Mechatronics/EE/CS

Tools

Github

MuJoCo

Gazebo

Job description

Agility Robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Staff Robotics Architect - Embedded Systems to define the hardware and software integration for our humanoid platforms. You will lead end-to-end architecture across sensing, compute, actuation, safety, and control, partnering with software, mechanical, and systems teams to deliver scalable robotic solutions.

This senior role emphasizes technical leadership, system modeling, and hands-on collaboration to advance our product roadmap,