Senior Staff Software Engineer, Calibration
Agility Robotics2 months ago
Base Salary
$218k - $340k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deliver calibration systems end to end, including algorithms, fixtures, on-fixture software, data pipelines, validation, and operator workflows.
- Own calibration for perception sensors and robot kinematics, including coupled sensor-extrinsic and arm or whole-body kinematic approaches.
- Establish calibration data and metrics infrastructure for per-unit records, accuracy and drift metrics, traceability, and fleet-level monitoring.
- Deliver operator-facing calibration fixture applications on Linux.
- Develop in-field self-check and recalibration capabilities for Digit’s service life.
- Define calibration requirements for downstream manufacturing, including cycle time, repeatability, data capture, and operator workflow.
- Coordinate deployment of calibration processes with sensor vendors and contract manufacturers, including documentation, training, and acceptance criteria.
- Identify, hire, mentor, and develop engineers contributing to calibration work.
- Set the technical direction and quality standards for calibration accuracy and repeatability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of practical experience calibrating complex robotic or sensor-rich systems in real production environments.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering end-to-end calibration systems, including algorithms, fixtures, on-fixture software, validation, and operator workflows.
- Deep expertise with multiple sensor modalities, including RGB cameras, LiDAR, thermal imagers, IMUs, and encoders, plus working knowledge of kinematic calibration and sensor-extrinsic coupling.
- Understanding of production calibration requirements such as repeatability, data collection, simplicity, and throughput.
- Experience building data and metrics infrastructure for calibration at scale.
- Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.
- Ability to execute technical work directly while identifying, hiring, mentoring, and developing other engineers.
- Effective collaboration skills across hardware, controls, perception, vendors, and contract manufacturers.
- Hands-on lab and production-floor engineering experience.
- Preferred experience owning calibration at an autonomous vehicle, mobile robotics, or other hardware company deploying sensor-rich systems at scale.
- Preferred experience with in-field calibration validation and recalibration, metrology, optical alignment, geometric computer vision, traceability databases, per-unit calibration history, and fleet-wide monitoring.
- Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Fully remote, with optional hybrid work for candidates within commuting distance of the Salem, Oregon; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; or Fremont, California offices.
- 401(k) plan with a 6% company match.
- Company stock options and company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Benefits eligibility begins on the first day of employment.
- Employee Assistance Program, flexible or defined paid time off depending on classification, and 12 company holidays including a winter shutdown.
- Catered lunches four times per week and snacks at the Salem and Pittsburgh offices.
- Paid parental leave, professional development, tuition reimbursement, relocation assistance for eligible roles, and an annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles.
About Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics builds and deploys Digit, a bipedal humanoid robot for logistics and manufacturing tasks such as tote handling and material flow in warehouses and distribution centers. The privately held company sells robots, software, and support services to industrial operators integrating automation alongside human workers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Salem, Oregon, it has commercially deployed systems in real-world facilities.