Staff Robotics Software Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

Discretionary bonus

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work arrangements

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Agility Robotics is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to architect and scale the production-quality software foundation for Digit’s real-world manipulation tasks. You will own end-to-end software architecture for data collection and teleoperation, partnering with AI, controls, and hardware teams.

The role emphasizes low-latency, scalable systems, performance optimization, and future-proof design across hardware and software interfaces.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering for robotics, real-time systems, or highly complex hardware-software integrations.
• Exceptional software architecture skills, with a proven ability to design and build scalable, low-latency systems from scratch without foundational missteps.
• Demonstrated track record of operating as a highly autonomous, independent executor capable of delivering reliable, production-quality software.
• Experience designing low-latency communication and streaming systems for real-time applications.
• Strong systems intuition with the ability to trace and debug performance issues across complex software, networking, and hardware boundaries.
• Demonstrated experience in modern C++ or Rust, with a strong track record of building and optimizing low-latency, real-time systems (Python proficiency is a strong plus).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with internal customers (AI, controls, and hardware teams) to translate requirements into robust software.

Responsibilities

• Architect from the Ground Up: Own the end-to-end software architecture of our data collection and teleoperation systems, ensuring modular, scalable and predictable behavior.
• Optimize for Performance: Real-time robot execution through optimized control, streaming, and communications paths with tight latency targets.
• Design for the Future: Anticipate hardware, sensing, and end-effector changes and design adaptable software without requiring rewrites.
• Drive Validation & Reliability: Develop validation strategies across simulation and hardware, including benchmarks, fault handling, and regression testing.
• Data-Driven Iteration: Analyze telemetry and demonstrations to improve operator efficiency, system responsiveness and task success rates.

Skills

C++

Rust

Real-time systems

Robotics software

Python

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

Unity

Unreal

OpenXR

Job description

Agility Robotics is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to architect and scale the production-quality software foundation for Digit’s real-world manipulation tasks. You will own end-to-end software architecture for data collection and teleoperation, partnering with AI, controls, and hardware teams.

The role emphasizes low-latency, scalable systems, performance optimization, and future-proof design across hardware and software interfaces.