Robotics Software Engineer III, Manipulation
Agility Roboticsabout 3 hours ago
Base Salary
$155k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a manipulation task vertical from definition through reliable on-robot execution.
- Develop behaviors using learned and classical manipulation methods.
- Run iterative policy improvements across data collection, annotation, training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Work with teleoperators to improve data quality and operator instructions.
- Create grading rubrics and evaluation workflows for measuring policy progress.
- Root-cause failures using logs, replays, and state-distribution analysis.
- Integrate learned policies with higher-level skills for complete robot workflows.
- Build general manipulation capabilities that reduce task-specific tuning.
- Experiment with off-the-shelf manipulation and perception models.
- Partner with the ML team responsible for the base large behavior model, LfD flywheel, and policy training recipes.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Robotics, AI, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience deploying manipulation behaviors on real robots.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python.
- Experience collecting robot data and training and testing manipulation behaviors on hardware.
- Familiarity with some combination of grasp planning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, force control, teleoperation, robot sensors, visual servoing, and object perception.
- Strong analytical, experimental, and debugging skills.
- Comfort working hands-on with robotic systems in a lab environment.
- Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Hybrid position based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or Fremont, California.
- 401(k) plan with a 6% company match.
- Company stock options and annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles.
- Company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Benefits eligibility begins on the first day of employment.
- Employee Assistance Program, paid parental leave, and professional development and tuition reimbursement.
- Flexible or unlimited PTO depending on exempt status, paid sick leave for non-exempt employees, and 12 company holidays including a winter shutdown.
- Catered lunches four times per week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Relocation assistance for eligible roles.
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