Staff Software Engineer, Simulation

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🏄 California, Oregon, +1 more states – Remote

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💵 $181k - $282k / 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

• Design, build, and own core components of Agility's simulation stack as a founding member of the Simulation team • Develop the hardware abstraction layer connecting sensors, actuators, and physical hardware to simulation environments • Develop and integrate physics simulators using open-source frameworks, focusing on fidelity, performance, and sim2real transfer • Build and maintain high-fidelity robot models, including kinematics, dynamics, mass properties, actuator and transmission models, and contact behavior • Build automated pipelines from hardware design to robot model to system identification • Use simulation to train reinforcement-learning policies, generate synthetic data, and evaluate end-to-end models • Evaluate proposed robot designs through trade studies on actuator sizing, link geometry, range of motion, and sensor placement • Turn simulation results into recommendations for design teams • Validate models against physical hardware data and improve fidelity where simulation and reality diverge • Establish engineering practices through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship • Shape the Simulation team's technical direction, architecture, and infrastructure • Partner with AI, Controls, Perception Sensors, Hardware Interfaces, Quality Assurance, and Systems Integration teams

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in robotics, including building simulation infrastructure, tooling, or robot models for real-world robotic systems • Strong proficiency in modern C++ and Python • Experience with at least one major robotics physics simulator (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or similar) • Experience building rigid-body robot models (URDF, MJCF, USD, or similar), including deriving or validating inertial, joint, and actuator parameters • Understanding of multibody dynamics and actuator modeling • Experience with system identification and improving sim2real transfer • Solid grasp of Git, CI/CD, Jira or equivalent, and feature branching • Comfortable working across hardware and software teams and translating between different technical vocabularies • Able to take ambiguous problems, break them down, and drive them to working solutions with minimal direction • Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical efforts across a small team • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field • All roles are U.S.-based; applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States

🏖️ 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 eligible on the first day of employment • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • 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 • 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

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