Senior Software Engineer, Release Engineering

Agility Robotics•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•$175,000 - $274,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Agility Robotics is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Release Engineering to help build and scale a secure, high-throughput software delivery system for its industrial humanoid robots. The role spans infrastructure used to build, test, manufacture, provision, and deliver software to robots in production and across a growing fleet. Systems include the Bazel build system and CI runner platform, component- and whole-robot test platforms, manufacturing software, and the over-the-air release system. This position sits across build and CI platform engineering, hardware and software release testing, and manufacturing and fleet delivery. The organization is growing rapidly, with a goal of supporting thousands of pull requests per day while keeping factory software in parity with production robot software. The work includes scaling platform capacity and reliability, strengthening release gates, and creating auditable software delivery processes with staged rollouts, signed provenance, and automatic rollback. The role works directly with robot software, firmware, manufacturing, test, security, and cloud teams. Openings are hybrid and based in Fremont, California; Salem, Oregon; or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There is no fully remote option. The anticipated salary range is $175,000–$274,000 USD, with the final offer dependent on factors such as location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Requirements

Professional software or infrastructure engineering experience with demonstrated ownership: 5 or more years for senior scope.
Strong proficiency in Python.
Fluency with Linux systems.
Hands-on ownership of infrastructure other engineers depend on, such as CI, build, test, release, manufacturing, or lab tooling.
Hands-on experience with physical, on-premises infrastructure, such as manufacturing line stations or lab benches; purely cloud or remote-only tooling experience is insufficient.
Experience turning ad-hoc scripts or manual processes into versioned, tested, maintainable systems.
Strong debugging instincts and communication skills across engineering, manufacturing, and test teams.
Current authorization to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Bazel or a comparable build system, remote execution or caching (such as EngFlow), and test-impact selection.
Robotics, embedded, or hardware-in-the-loop experience, including cross-platform targets such as ARM, Jetson, Linux BSPs, or firmware.
Manufacturing or lab environment experience, including test benches, end-of-line testing, MES or traceability databases, device provisioning, PKI, or secure/measured boot.
Production-scale experience with Kubernetes, Datadog, Artifactory, and GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

Build and own platforms for component- and whole-robot testing, including runner capacity, test compute, hardware-in-the-loop benches, and flaky-test reliability.
Enforce hardware and software release gates through test infrastructure, not just software CI.
Keep manufacturing and validation software in versioned parity with production robot software.
Own the test infrastructure used by manufacturing software and automate workflows and monitoring as production lines scale.
Manage provisioning and over-the-air updates as a continuous, auditable pipeline with staged rollouts, signed provenance, and automatic rollback.
Participate in release and fleet on-call.
Drive adoption of build, test, and release standards across engineering teams.
Collaborate with robot software, firmware, manufacturing, test, security, and cloud teams, helping clarify ownership where it is ambiguous.
Scale CI to handle organizational growth and thousands of pull requests per day, with a core loop under 10 minutes and a full pipeline under 20 minutes.
Improve test reliability by quarantining flaky tests with owners and expiry dates and keeping the main branch green against a published SLO.

Benefits

401(k) plan with a 6% company match.
Company stock options.
100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short- and long-term disability insurance for employees.
Benefits eligibility starting on the first day of employment.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Exempt employees receive flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
Non-exempt employees receive 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
Catered lunches four times a week and healthy snacks and refreshments at the Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
Paid parental leave programs.
Flexible work arrangements.
Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
Relocation assistance for eligible roles.
Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles.