Senior Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning
Agility Robotics3 months ago
Base Salary
$216k - $337k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the technical roadmap for collision-free motion planning across whole-body motion, manipulation, grasping, and loco-manipulation.
- Design, implement, test, and deploy motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for humanoid robots.
- Architect modular, observable motion planning systems that integrate cleanly with perception, state estimation, and control.
- Develop algorithms robust to environmental uncertainty and imperfect state estimation.
- Lead cross-team architectural decisions and solve complex system-level problems with autonomy, controls, and behaviors teams.
Requirements
- Experience developing and deploying manipulation algorithms on high-degree-of-freedom robots.
- Industry experience deploying mobile manipulation robots in real-world commercial applications.
- Production experience with sample-based motion planning, trajectory optimization, and model predictive control.
- Expertise in planning and optimization under geometric and kinodynamic constraints, including contact, friction, and collision.
- Deep mathematical knowledge of search and numerical optimization, including convex and non-convex problem formulation.
- Expertise in modern C++ and Python for high-performance, multithreaded, real-time robotics applications.
- Experience architecting large-scale autonomy systems and defining clean interfaces across perception, estimation, planning, and control.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including setting direction, owning architecture, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Bonus: experience with humanoid robots, loco-manipulation, whole-body model predictive control, whole-body trajectory optimization, task and motion planning under uncertainty, machine learning or offline trajectory optimization, perception and scene understanding, or publications in major robotics venues.
- Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Fully remote, with hybrid options near 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 begin on the first day of employment.
- Employee Assistance Program, paid parental leave, and professional development and tuition reimbursement.
- Flexible or unlimited PTO for exempt employees, or 10 vacation days and paid sick leave for non-exempt employees, plus 12 company holidays and a winter shutdown.
- Catered lunches four times per week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Relocation assistance and 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.