Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Agility Robotics

• This is a highly hands-on role for someone who enjoys designing complex behavior systems, working closely with motion planners and hardware, and seeing new capabilities come to life on real robots
• B.S. , M.S. , or Ph.D in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing robotics software, autonomy systems, or robot behaviors (or equivalent experience through advanced degrees and hands-on research)
• Strong proficiency in Python; comfortable contributing to large, long-lived codebases
• Solid experience working in Linux-based development environments
• Hands-on experience designing robot behaviors, task planners, or autonomy systems
• Experience with behavior trees, state machines, task planners, or similar behavior-planning frameworks
• Experience with motion planning and behavior planning for robots or other autonomous systems, with a strong understanding of how these systems interact
• Experience working with complex algorithms and data pipelines, with an ability to optimize for performance, robustness, and scalability
• Strong system-level understanding of how motion planning, perception, and control interact on real robots
• Comfortable designing autonomy systems that operate under uncertainty and recover from failure
• Experience collaborating across perception, planning, controls, and hardware teams
• Comfortable operating at the system-design level while still being hands-on with implementation and on-robot testing
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on robustness, generalization, and real-world reliability

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to lead the design and development of robot behaviors that expand and generalize our humanoid robot’s real-world capabilities
• In this role, you will own behavior design end-to-end, from high-level task logic and system design down to on-robot validation and deployment
• You will work at the intersection of behavior planning, motion planning, and manipulation, developing new autonomy capabilities and pushing the robot into new classes of tasks
• Own the design and implementation of complex robot behaviors
• Lead behavior planning and execution design, including task decomposition, control flow, and failure handling
• Develop new autonomy capabilities that expand what the robot can reliably do in the real world
• Work closely with motion planning, controls, and perception engineers to integrate behaviors with underlying systems
• Design and implement new behaviors end-to-end, from initial concept through deployment
• Develop and evaluate new manipulation strategies for novel tasks, objects, and environments
• Support the integration of new end effectors, tools, and hardware capabilities into the behavior stack
• Generalize behaviors across tasks, object types, and environments to reduce custom logic
• Define what “production-ready” means for new behaviors and drive the validation strategy to meet reliability goals
• Debug complex system-level failures using logs, replay, and on-robot experimentation
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical direction and best practices within the team