Software Engineer, Agility Robotics
Data Platform
$144-224k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Fremont, CA
Robotic automation for the warehouse and logistics
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Robotic automation for the warehouse and logistics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$144-224k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Fremont, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make businesses more productive and people's lives more fulfilling.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years of experience building and scaling cloud-based data platforms(AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Big Data Tech: Proficient in big data frameworks like Spark, Kafka, Beam, Flink etc
- Data Formats: Familiarity with OSS data formats like Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg and protocols like Avro and Protobuf
- Experience with observability tools(e.g. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus etc) and implementing metrics, tracing and logging systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one JVM language (Java or Scala), with experience in microservices
- Proven experience handling diverse data types—specifically combining unstructured data (logs/video) with structured telemetry
Desirable
- Robotics/AV Background: Experience with robot-specific data formats (MCAP, ROS bags) and visualization tools like Foxglove or RVIZ
- Sensor Fusion: Understanding of time-sync challenges in multimodal data (e.g., PTP/NTP synchronization across sensors)
- Infrastructure: Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployment patterns
- Systems Programming: Familiarity with C++ or Rust for high-performance data handling at the edge
- IoT Knowledge: Experience with edge computing, Greengrass, or managing data from embedded devices
What the job involves
- Join the team building the data backbone for fleet-scale humanoid robotics. As a Software Engineer III on our Data Platform team, you will implement and scale the infrastructure required to ingest, process, and synchronize massive datasets from our robots
- You will focus on the technical challenges of handling multimodal log data—ensuring that high-frequency sensor data, video feeds, and telemetry are perfectly aligned for playback and ML training
- Data Ingestion: Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing telemetry, logs and sensor data from our fleet of robots and associated cloud software
- Multimodal Data Integration: Develop systems to handle complex multimodal logs, ensuring precise synchronization between video, audio, IMU, and joint-state data for downstream analysis and robot "black box" reconstruction/playback
- Edge Data Agents: Contribute to the development of data ingestion agents running on-robot to manage high-volume data throughput in variable connectivity environments
- Data Optimization: Implement and optimize data formats (e.g., MCAP, Parquet) specifically tuned for the storage and rapid querying of rich multimodal robotics recordings
- Observability systems: Develop and maintain observability systems using tools like fluentbit, OpenTelemetry etc enabling real-time monitoring and analytics of fleet operations
- Distributed Processing: Use Spark, Kafka, or Flink to transform raw robot data into structured datasets ready for business intelligence and long-horizon fleet analytics
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with AI and Hardware teams to ensure data tools meet the needs of those training the next generation of humanoid models
- Cloud Platform: Build and optimize tools for internal stakeholders for business intelligence and long-horizon fleet analytics and forecasting using existing tools like AWS S3, Athena, Sagemaker etc.
Our take
Agility Robotics was founded with the aim of empowering the blended workforce, where humans and human-movement-enabled robots work side by side. Though there’s still plenty of wariness about what workplace robots might mean for the future of the workforce, the amount of R&D and Venture Capital funding into the space – coupled with an acute labour shortage – suggests that there’s no holding it back.
The company, founded by a team of Robotics and Bioengineering academics, has hit the headlines a number of times in the last few years for the mobility and dexterity of its robots which can walk around, move packages, and unload trailers (as well as climb stairs and run a 5K). This ability to run could have a huge impact, as it opens up the potential not just to work in warehouses and factories, but to complete last-mile deliveries – an ambition that Agility Robotics has made public.
It's advancing humanoid robotics with its robot, Digit, already working in logistics and delivery. With partnerships like Schaeffler AG and a new production facility, Agility is scaling up operations. Digit's tasks, including package handling, and future plans for self-replication, position the company to address labor shortages. As it enhanced Digit's AI and safety features, Agility is preparing for a future where robots and humans work together, shaping the digital workforce.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
87% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2025
$400m
LATE VC
Oct 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $728m
Company benefits
- 100% Company Paid Disability, Life, Health, Dental & Vision Insurance (for AR employees)
- Employer Matched Retirement Plan
- Five Weeks of Paid Time Off Annually
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Relocation Assistance (for certain roles)
- Stock Options (for certain roles)
- A culture that encourages flexible work schedules
- A culture that embraces individuality and authenticity
Company HQ
Southeast Mill Creek, Salem, OR
Leadership
Peggy Johnson
(CEO)Joined Agility Robotics in 2024 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of Magic Leap. They also spent 6 years at Microsoft as an Executive Vice President of Business Development and 25 years at Qualcomm as an Executive Vice President of Global Market Development.
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