Tech Lead - Humanoid Robotics & Behavior

Energy Jobline ZR; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 296,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan with 6% company match

Equity: Company stock options

Medical, dental, vision, and short/one

Flexible work arrangements

Relocation assistance

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics, a leader in humanoid robotics, is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to direct the design and development of robot behaviors across perception, planning, and manipulation for real‑world deployments.

You will own behavior design end‑to‑end—from high‑level task logic to on‑robot validation—while mentoring engineers, pushing robustness, and setting technical direction in a hybrid to onsite environment (Salem, OR / Pittsburgh, PA / Fremont, CA).

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional robotics software experience.
• Experience as a tech lead or senior technical owner for complex robotics projects.
• Proficient in Python and C++.
• Experience with behavior planning frameworks such as behavior trees, state machines, task planners, or hierarchical planning.

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 robot capabilities in real-world environments.
• Develop and evaluate manipulation strategies for new tasks, objects, workflows, and customer environments.
• Integrate robot behaviors with motion planning, controls, perception, estimation, and hardware systems.
• Train, evaluate, and integrate learned policies into hybrid learned/classical execution workflows.
• Integrate new end effectors, tools, sensors, and other hardware into the behavior stack.
• Debug complex system-level failures using logs, replay, metrics, simulation, and on-robot experimentation.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and hands-on technical guidance.
• Help set technical direction and best practices for robust, reusable, and generalizable robot behaviors.

Skills

Python

C++

Behavior trees

State machines

Planning frameworks

Robotics expertise

Education

Robotics/CS advanced degree

Job description

Agility Robotics, a leader in humanoid robotics, is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to direct the design and development of robot behaviors across perception, planning, and manipulation for real‑world deployments.

You will own behavior design end‑to‑end—from high‑level task logic to on‑robot validation—while mentoring engineers, pushing robustness, and setting technical direction in a hybrid to onsite environment (Salem, OR / Pittsburgh, PA / Fremont, CA).