Robotics Software Engineer III, Manipulation

Agility Robotics•Pittsburgh, PA

17h•$155,000 - $241,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential. We are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer III to join our Skills team and develop manipulation behaviors for humanoid robots. You will own a task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution, working across learned and classical manipulation approaches. You will run our LfD flywheel end-to-end for manipulation tasks: collecting data, defining operator instructions, improving data quality, setting up grading rubrics, training policies, evaluating failures, and iterating until the behavior is robust enough for real deployments. This role is well suited for an engineer who enjoys working close to the robot and being methodical about failure analysis. You will replay logs, identify weak points in the state distribution, root-cause failures, and build the engineering around policies and primitives so the robot can execute complete workflows.

Requirements

MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
2+ years of experience deploying manipulation behaviors on real robots
Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python
Experience with robot data collection, training, and testing on hardware to perform manipulation tasks
Familiarity with at least some of the following: grasp planning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, force control, teleoperation, robot sensors, visual servoing, and object perception
Strong analytical, experimental, and debugging skills
Comfortable working hands-on with robotic systems in a lab environment

Responsibilities

Own a task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution
Work across learned and classical manipulation methods
Run iterative policy improvements across data collection, annotation, training, evaluation, and deployment
Work closely with teleoperators to improve data quality and operator instructions
Develop grading rubrics and evaluation workflows that make progress measurable, where success gets measured by policies that act more reliably on real robots in the real world.
Root cause failures using logs, replays, and analysis of state distributions
Integrate learned policies with higher-level skills so they can execute inside complete robot workflows
Build general manipulation capabilities that reduce the amount of task-specific tuning
Experiment with off-the-shelf manipulation and perception models
Partner with the ML team that owns the base large behavior model, LfD flywheel, and training recipes used to post-train policies for specific manipulation tasks

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).
Time Off: Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown. Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.