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# Senior AI Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning at Agility Robotics

- **Company:** Agility Robotics
- **Location:** Any Office Fremont CA Salem OR OR Pittsburgh, PA
- **Compensation:** $187k–$292k
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://www.agilityrobotics.com/about/job-post?gh_jid=6127693004

## Job description

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.

Agility is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.

## Why Join Now

Digit is one of the only humanoid robots deployed in real customer facilities today—at Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre, with 65,000+ hours of real-world operation logged. In June 2026 we announced plans to become the first pure-play humanoid robotics company to trade publicly (ticker AGLT), in a ~$2.5B merger backed by NVIDIA, Amazon, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Foxconn. With $300M+ in orders for Digit and a factory built for 10,000 robots a year, we’re scaling fast—and the policies you build will ship to robots working alongside people in production, not sit in simulation.

## About the Role

The AI Controls team builds high-rate learned controllers that let Digit move robustly, efficiently, and safely in dynamic environments. As an AI Controls Engineer, you’ll develop and deploy reinforcement learning policies across humanoid locomotion, whole-body control, and manipulation—integrating perception to enable collision-free, perceptive motion in the real world.

## About The Work

- Design, train, and deploy robust RL policies for locomotion, manipulation, whole body control, and dynamic interactions with the environment.
- Integrate perception into RL policies to achieve obstacle-aware, collision-free motion, and perceptive manipulation.
- Develop and maintain core RL infrastructure, including scalable training pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
- Design and implement new simulation environments and tasks to support training and evaluation of control policies.
- Collaborate with on-robot software and deployment teams to ship production-quality policies to Digit.

## About You

- 4+ years of experience developing and deploying RL policies for robotics applications.
- Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with a deep learning framework such as PyTorch.
- Experience designing reward functions, tuning hyperparameters, and implementing exploration strategies to solve complex control tasks.
- Experience with perception-in-the-loop control, integrating real-time sensory inputs for reactive or adaptive behaviors.
- Proven experience deploying reinforcement learning policies on real-world bipedal or quadrupedal robots.
- Familiarity with robot simulation environments (e.g. Mujoco-Warp, Isaac) and sim-to-real transfer.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to deliver safe, high-quality software in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Qualifications

- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience with contact-rich manipulation, including force-torque or tactile sensing.
- Familiarity with policy distillation (e.g. teacher–student) for transferring state-based policies to perception-driven ones.
- Publications in top ML or robotics conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, CoRL, RSS, ICRA).

This a hybrid position based out of one of our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont 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 Salary Range $187,000—$292,000 USD

In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:

- 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
- Equity: Company stock options.
- Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
- Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Time Off:
- Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
- Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
- Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

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.

## About Agility Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Agility Robotics designs, manufactures, and deploys Digit, a commercially available humanoid robot, paired with the Arc cloud platform to automate repetitive and difficult tasks in logistics and manufacturing facilities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (planning to go public via merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, announced June 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Salem, Oregon, USA (additional offices in Pittsburgh, PA and Fremont, CA)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Jonathan Hurst, Damion Shelton

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics engineering, humanoid robotics, industrial automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise logistics and manufacturing companies (e.g., warehouses, distribution centers, assembly plants)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Making humans more capable” by automating repetitive and dangerous tasks with safe, reliable humanoid robots

## Products & Services
- **[Digit](https://www.agilityrobotics.com/)**: Commercially deployed humanoid robot designed to move totes, handle goods, and perform material handling tasks in human-centric workspaces. FCC approved and NRTL certified. Over 100,000 totes moved at a single facility.
- **[Agility Arc](https://www.agilityrobotics.com/)**: Cloud platform that runs and orchestrates Digit fleets, providing remote monitoring, task scheduling, and integration with existing facility workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI values the deal, but final valuation not yet confirmed)
- **Key Metrics**: Annual Revenue ≈ $15M (LinkedIn estimate, 2025); Total Funding ≈ $728.8M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Playground Global, DCVC, Schaeffler Group, NVIDIA (partner on Halos safety system), Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (commercial agreement), Mercado Libre (commercial agreement)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 55.9% YoY to 308 employees; RoboFab factory in Salem can produce up to 10,000 robots annually; 38 active job postings; first humanoid robot to achieve FCC and NRTL certification; targeting cooperatively safe humanoid certification in 2026

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover**: First commercially deployed humanoid robot with real-world ROI (over 100,000 totes moved at a single facility).
- **Proven safety**: Over a decade of R&D; FCC and NRTL certified; working toward the first “cooperatively safe” humanoid robot.
- **Supply chain resilience**: ~75% of Digit’s 6,000 parts sourced from the U.S., minimizing supply chain shocks.
- **RoboFab**: World’s first full-scale humanoid robot factory, enabling scalable production with a modular workcell design.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling deployment across logistics and manufacturing verticals through direct commercial agreements and partnerships.
- Advancing AI and safety systems (e.g., NVIDIA Halos integration) to expand Digit’s capabilities and use cases.
- Going public via SPAC to access capital for further production capacity expansion and R&D.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “We do more than build demos. We build robots that ship, deploy, and get to work.” Emphasizes real-world impact, safety, and reliability.
- **Locations**: Salem, OR (manufacturing HQ); Pittsburgh, PA (engineering, testing, validation); Fremont, CA (AI and bay-area talent).
- **Team**: Engineers, AI researchers, and manufacturing experts; strong technical focus (46% of staff in technical roles).
- **Growth**: Fast-growing company (55.9% headcount growth YoY) with ample career development opportunities; active hiring for engineering, AI, and operations roles.
- **Perks/Policy**: Not detailed, but culture highlights “hard problems, real deployment, a team that ships” and multiple office locations (likely hybrid/office-based depending on role).

## Sources
1. [Agility Robotics Official Website](https://www.agilityrobotics.com/)
2. [Agility Robotics Careers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/agilityrobotics)
3. [Agility Robotics LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agilityrobotics)
4. [Agility Robotics Company Page](https://www.agilityrobotics.com/company)

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