Staff Robotics Software Engineer- Teleoperations Architecture

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><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About The Role</strong></span></p> <p>You will be the architectural force behind the systems that teach Digit how to interact with the physical world. As a Staff Robotics Software Engineer on the AI team, you will architect, build, and scale the production-quality software foundation that enables Digit to execute complex, whole-body manipulation tasks in real-world environments. You will work at the critical intersection of AI, controls, hardware, and operations to create a seamless, low-latency platform for human demonstration data collection. Your software architecture will directly unlock our ability to scale the world's first production humanoid robot fleet and revolutionize the global labor market.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About The Work</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Architect from the Ground Up: Own the end-to-end software architecture of our data collection and teleoperation systems, ensuring highly modular, scalable, and predictable behavior with clear system boundaries.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Optimize for Performance: Build the connective tissue for real-time robot execution by integrating and optimizing real-time control, streaming, and communication paths to meet strict latency and bandwidth targets.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Design for the Future: Anticipate upcoming robot hardware, sensing, and end-effector changes. Design resilient software systems that can seamlessly adapt to new interfaces and capabilities without requiring foundational architectural rewrites.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Drive Validation & Reliability: Develop comprehensive validation strategies across simulation and physical hardware, including performance benchmarks, fault handling, and regression testing.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Data-Driven Iteration: Analyze system telemetry and demonstration data to continuously improve operator efficiency, system responsiveness, and overall task success rates.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About You</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">7+ years of experience in software engineering for robotics, real-time systems, or highly complex hardware-software integrations.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Exceptional software architecture skills, with a proven ability to design and build scalable, low-latency systems from scratch without foundational missteps.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated track record of operating as a highly autonomous, independent executor capable of delivering reliable, production-quality software.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience designing low-latency communication and streaming systems for real-time applications.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong systems intuition with the ability to trace and debug performance issues across complex software, networking, and hardware boundaries.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated experience in modern C++ or Rust, with a strong track record of building and optimizing low-latency, real-time systems (Python proficiency is a strong plus).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with internal customers (AI, controls, and hardware teams) to translate requirements into robust software.<br><br></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Bonus Qualifications</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with whole-body kinematics, motion retargeting, rigid body dynamics, or real-time control systems.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Human-Machine Interfaces: Hands-on experience integrating human input systems such as Virtual Reality (VR), motion capture, wearable devices, or remote control interfaces.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">XR Frameworks: Experience building applications with real-time rendering or XR frameworks (e.g., Unity, Unreal, Godot, SteamVR, OpenXR).</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">3D Visualization: Experience with advanced 3D visualization techniques such as neural radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, or other scene reconstruction methods.</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Pipelines: Familiarity with large-scale data collection pipelines for learning from demonstration.</li> </ul> <p>This a hybrid position based out of one of our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont offices.</p> <p><em>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.</em></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div…