Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.
About the Role
Our software team is growing and we are looking for talented engineers to join our agile, world-class team. Our Robot Platform team is the foundational core of our product, dedicated to providing a robust, reliable, and secure software substrate that accelerates all robot feature development. We own the critical layers that all other software teams build upon: operating system images, bootloaders, kernels, device drivers, and filesystems.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the Robot Platform team, focusing on the ownership and delivery of mission-critical operating system components. You will work within established architectural patterns to build and maintain the service management (systemd, k3s) and update mechanisms that power our robots. This role offers the opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, from optimizing kernel performance to ensuring secure installation and updating mechanisms on our physical systems in the field.
Key Responsibilities
Software Development & Execution:
Team Collaboration:
- Cross-functional Support: Collaborate with manufacturing, test, and robot software engineers to implement the features and interfaces they need to succeed.
- Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the evolution of our developer tooling and internal best practices to improve team velocity and software quality.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience with OS image generation, Linux kernel development, and embedded Linux environments.
- Strong background in implementing complex features within large-scale software systems, preferably in robotics or autonomous systems.
- Proficiency in modern Python and systems programming on Linux.
- Experience with Linux kernel development, bootloaders, device drivers, and service orchestration using systemd and similar service management systems.
- Ability to take high-level project requirements and translate them into efficient, well-tested code.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working within a fast-paced agile team.
Bonus Qualifications
- Robotics industry experience
- Experience using Kubernetes
- Bazel and similar build systems
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Nvidia driver and library management
Why This Role?
- Impactful Work: Everything you build will be used by engineers across the company every day.
- Physical Impact: Your software decisions directly affect real robots operating in dynamic environments.
- Collaboration: Work closely with robotics, cloud platform, and solutions engineers on mission-critical workflows.
- Engineering Culture: Remote-friendly with a strong emphasis on developer experience, mentorship, and technical excellence.
This is a fully remote role with the option to work hybrid if a commutable distance from our Salem, OR, Pittsburgh, PA, or Fremont, CA offices.
The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.
Anticipated Base Salary Range
$155,000—$241,000 USD
In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:
All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.
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