Senior AI Research Engineer

Agility Robotics

Salem, OR · RemoteFull-time$195,000 – $304,000 / yearly

Job details

Pay

$195,000 – $304,000 / yearly

Job type

Full-time

Work setting

Remote / Hybrid

Location

Salem, OR

Posted

Posted 2 months ago

Hybrid role based from any Agility office (Fremont CA, Salem OR, or Pittsburgh PA).

Develop and deploy foundation models and end-to-end policies for humanoid robots operating in real-world settings.

What you will do:

Design robust control policies for locomotion, manipulation, and environmental interactions
Build scalable reinforcement learning infrastructure with training pipelines and evaluation frameworks
Create simulation environments and tasks supporting policy training and deployment
Advance imitation learning techniques for robot task learning
Collaborate with software and AI teams to transition research into production systems
Conduct experiments on physical humanoid robots in warehouses and manufacturing facilities
Support deployment of robots operating safely alongside human teams

PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or related discipline
Publications in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CoRL, RSS, ICRA)
Familiarity with robot simulators (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim) and sim-to-real transfer
Experience with modern reinforcement learning for locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control
Proficiency writing performant, high-quality C++ software

3+ years developing and deploying learning-from-demonstration systems
Strong Python programming with proficiency in deep learning frameworks like PyTorch
Experience with modern learning-from-demonstration tools such as DiffusionPolicy
Hands-on experience collecting robot data, training, and testing on hardware for manipulation
Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field
Current U.S. work authorization

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