Staff AI Research Engineer
Agility Robotics3 months ago
Base Salary
$216k - $338k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish standards for experiment tracking, evaluation protocols, and model benchmarking.
- Mentor junior AI research engineers through project design, experimentation, and technical problem solving.
- Drive alignment across AI Research and Robotics on methods, evaluation, and deployment readiness.
- Review experimental designs, code, and results for rigor, reproducibility, and research alignment.
- Help onboard new researchers and improve their effectiveness in robot learning workflows.
- Design, train, and deploy policies for locomotion, manipulation, and dynamic environmental interactions.
- Develop scalable reinforcement learning training pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
- Design and implement simulation environments and tasks for control-policy training and deployment.
- Develop, design, and test imitation learning methods.
- Collaborate with Robotics Software and AI engineering teams to transfer policies to production.
Requirements
- 7+ years of total experience in software engineering and/or AI/robotics.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying learning-from-demonstration, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, foundation models, or related robot learning systems in real-world or simulated robotics environments.
- Proven ability to mentor and develop junior engineers or researchers.
- Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and influencing technical direction from research through deployment.
- Ability to translate ambiguous research problems into structured, executable work for a team.
- Strong Python programming skills and proficiency with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Experience with learning-from-demonstration tools such as DiffusionPolicy.
- Experience collecting robot data and training and testing manipulation systems on hardware.
- MS in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field is a bonus.
- Publications in top machine learning or robotics conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, CoRL, RSS, or ICRA are a bonus.
- Familiarity with MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, and sim-to-real transfer techniques is a bonus.
- Experience with reinforcement learning for locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control is a bonus.
- Experience writing performant, high-quality software in C++ is a bonus.
- Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Hybrid position based in Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont, with flexible work arrangements.
- 401(k) plan with a 6% company match.
- Company stock options.
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance.
- Benefits eligibility begins on the first day of employment.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Flexible unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, for exempt employees.
- Catered lunches four times a week and snacks and refreshments at Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Paid parental leave.
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation assistance for eligible roles.
- Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles.
- Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
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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.