Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception

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🏄 California, Oregon, +1 more states – Remote

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💵 $238k - $372k / year

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Agility Robotics

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

Logistics • Manufacturing • Hardware

Agility Robotics is a leading manufacturer of mobile manipulation robots, known for their humanoid robot Digit. The company focuses on deploying its robots in commercial settings, such as material handling workflows, to enhance productivity across various industries including third-party logistics, manufacturing, and retail & eCommerce. With their innovative cloud automation solution, Agility Arc, these robots provide game-changing automation solutions. Agility Robotics aims to revolutionize labor by integrating humanoid robots in settings where meaningful work and economic value are crucial.

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision and system architecture for Perception enabling safety and efficiency as Digit expands into open, dynamic environments • Analyze architectural tradeoffs across sensing modalities, model design, redundancy, and compute budget while balancing safety, latency, and robustness • Stay hands-on by prototyping, validating, or building critical system components • Partner with functional safety and systems engineering to define safety-case strategy and required evidence • Support system-level failure mode and hazard analysis • Evaluate emerging research and technology for adoption into future robot architectures • Set verification and validation standards for ML-based perception systems, especially rare and safety-critical scenarios • Collaborate with navigation, controls, and hardware teams • Mentor engineers and technical leads • Represent the architecture to executive leadership, partners, and customers as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in machine learning/perception for robotics, with a track record of defining system architecture • Master's or Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field • Strong foundation in machine learning, robotics, and intelligent systems • Experience architecting ML/perception systems for safety-critical or safety-rated contexts, including human detection, functional safety, automotive, robotics, or a comparable regulated domain • Deep expertise in deep convolutional neural networks, multi-object tracking, data association, supervised learning, and pose estimation • Experience making system-level tradeoffs across sensing modalities, redundancy, and compute constraints on embedded/real-time hardware • Track record of setting technical direction at an organization level • Direct experience supporting a safety case or certification submission • Experience architecting redundant or diverse sensing systems for safety-rated perception • Experience architecting perception systems for humanoid or legged robots • Experience representing technical architecture to regulators, third-party certifiers, or safety auditors • Substantial experience with FMEA, hazard analysis, and safety case strategy for autonomous or robotic systems

🏖️ Benefits

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