Senior Software Engineer, Operating Systems

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About the Role</span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Key Responsibilities</span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Software Development & Execution:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Operating System Development:</strong> Build and maintain the operating system images used on robots and edge devices, including the bootloader, kernel, device drivers, filesystems, and system libraries.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>System Orchestration & Security:</strong> Take ownership of technical projects within the robot platform stack, including:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Service management and orchestration systems using systemd and k3s.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Secure local and remote service access mechanisms.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Robust installation and over-the-air (OTA) software update mechanisms.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Provisioning and commissioning scripts for core device environments.</span></li> </ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Code Quality & Reliability:</strong> Write clean and maintainable code, while contributing to thorough code reviews and automated testing suites.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Debugging & Troubleshooting:</strong> Actively troubleshoot complex low-level issues across the robot software stack, focusing on OS-level bugs and hardware-software integration challenges.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Team Collaboration:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Cross-functional Support:</strong> Collaborate with manufacturing, test, and robot software engineers to implement the features and interfaces they need to succeed.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Continuous Improvement:</strong> Contribute to the evolution of our developer tooling and internal best practices to improve team velocity and software quality.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Required Qualifications</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5+ years of professional experience with OS image generation, Linux kernel development, and embedded Linux environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong background in implementing complex features within large-scale software systems, preferably in robotics or autonomous systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proficiency in modern Python and systems programming on Linux.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with Linux kernel development, bootloaders, device drivers, and service orchestration using systemd and similar service management systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ability to take high-level project requirements and translate them into efficient, well-tested code.</span></li> <li style="font-size:…