Agility Robotics · 1 month ago
Staff Robotics Software Engineer
Pittsburgh, PA or Salem, OR or San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
8+ years expAgility Robotics is a pioneer in robotics, known for their innovative robot, Digit. They are seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to enhance the core software stack for Digit’s autonomous behaviors, focusing on building reliable and scalable systems for complex workflows across various robot generations.
Industrial EngineeringMechanical EngineeringRobotics
Responsibilities
Design and implement frameworks and interfaces that enable developers, planners, and agents to reason about robot behaviors and ensure behavior sequences are reactive, safe, and reliable
Implement and deploy automatic robot API discovery to allow seamless integration of heterogeneous robotic hardware into workflows
Develop reactive, reusable robot behaviors with well-defined abstractions that make them scalable and easy to extend
Implement task planning and orchestration logic that composes individual skills into higher-level workflows
Integrate symbolic and learned task planning methods that reason over logical state and structured world representations, enabling context-aware and goal-directed autonomy
Validate skills through simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing to ensure reliability and robustness in production deployments
Drive the long-term technical strategy for the skill architecture, ensuring it evolves cohesively with advances in learning-based control, planning, and AI-driven autonomy
Mentor other engineers and champion best practices in software design, code quality, testing, and maintainability across the team
Qualification
Required
BS or MS in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field
8+ years of professional experience in robotics software engineering
Proficiency in Python and C++
Experience developing or maintaining robot behavior frameworks, robot APIs, task planning systems, or other robotics middleware/infrastructure
Experience implementing and managing dynamic API discovery mechanisms to streamline service integration and improve system scalability
A strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software architecture principles
Demonstrated leadership or mentorship experience guiding other engineers and defining software architecture directions
Preferred
Experience designing and implementing one or more of the following for robotic systems: task planners, directed acyclic graph (DAG), behavior trees (BT), finite state machines (FSM), or other sequential decision-making frameworks
Experience with planning and execution frameworks integrated with large language models (LLMs), vision-language models (VLMs), or learned planners
Hands-on experience with task planning frameworks and libraries (e.g., PDDL-based planners, ROSPlan, or similar)
Experience integrating planning with behavior-execution frameworks such as BehaviorTree.CPP
Experience integrating planning algorithms with perception (object detection, pose estimation, semantic segmentation) and real-time control on physical robots
Practical understanding of robotic manipulation tasks (pick-and-place, palletization, bin-picking) and mobile robot navigation, with demonstrated ability to implement planning logic for these applications
Experience with multi-robot coordination, fleet-level task allocation, or distributed task planning
Familiarity with simulation platforms like Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or Gazebo
Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source task planning frameworks, or building internal libraries that improved reusability, testing, or developer experience
Benefits
401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
Equity: Company stock options.
Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
Generous paid parental leave programs.
A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
Company
Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics builds an efficient, agile, and robust legged platforms for real world applications.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$178.79MKey Investors
NVenturesSchaeffler GroupPlayground Global
2025-09-10Series C
2024-11-13Corporate Round
2022-04-22Series B· $150M
Leadership Team
Peggy Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Hurst
Co-Founder and Chief Robot Officer
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