Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML Platform
Remote·Posted today
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<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><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About The Role</span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Join the team building the machine learning platform to power fleet-scale humanoid robotics. As a senior engineer on the ML Infrastructure and Platform group, you will help <em>architect</em> and <em>build</em> the foundational infrastructure for AI and machine learning operations at Agility. This includes the platform layer for data collection and processing, training, sim and real evaluation, and model management and observability.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your work will empower our AI teams across perception, controls, skills, and innovation to build and deploy next-generation robot foundation models and end-to-end policies for humanoid robots by providing tools to develop and operationalize machine learning at scale. </span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Key Responsibilities</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Execution and Technical Ownership</em></span></p> <ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contribute to the design and implementation of the ML platform for orchestrating the end to end AI flywheel of data processing, training, evaluation, and deployment </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop reliable workflows across cloud compute, Kubernetes, and continuous automation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build core infrastructure components such as the model registry, feature store and experiment tracking tooling.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own developer-facing APIs and CLI tools that make ML workflows simple and reproducible. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Implement the CI/CD lifecycle for ML that enable continuous retraining, automated testing, and seamless model delivery to production environments</span></li> </ul> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Collaboration</em></span></p> <ul> <li> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work closely with the Staff ML Infra Engineer and cross-functional stakeholders (AI researchers and robotics engineers) to understand requirements and translate them into scalable solutions/systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner with data platform engineers to integrate ML orchestration and metadata tracking tools with our existing data lake and pipelines.</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Engineering Excellence, Growth and Impact</em>: </span></p> <ul> <li> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Apply MLOps best practices: reproducibility, lineage, rollback, monitoring and governance. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mentor junior engineers and influence the broader cloud platform organization’s roadmap.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contribute to internal discussions on platform architecture, reliability, and scalability alongside the broader ML and data platform team</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What We’re Aiming For (MLOps Level 2)</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Version-controlled ML pipelines (data, code, and config)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Automated and reproducible model training and evaluation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Continuous integration and delivery for ML workflows</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Centralized experiment tracking and performance visualization</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Standardized model packaging and deployment to production</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Monitoring of models post-deployment</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Required Qualifications</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years working on ML infrastructure, data platforms or MLOps systems in production environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience building and maintaining components of modern ML platforms—such as experiment tracking, model registries, training pipelines, or deployment systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Familiarity with orchestration and tracking tools (MLflow, WandB, Airflow, Kubeflow, etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proficiency with cloud-native platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers, and IaC (e.g., CDK, Terraform)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on experience with processing or modeling multimodal data(sensor logs, camera streams, behaviour traces etc).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with research scientists, data engineers, and robotics/autonomy teams to ship infrastructure used by others</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bonus Qualifications</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones or embedded ML.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contributions to open-source ML infrastructure or MLOps tooling a plus. </span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Why This Role?</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Build from the start</em> Join at a pivotal moment - help shape the ML platform layer as its being defined, not inherited. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>High impact</em>: Your work will directly enable faster, safer, and more intelligent robotic behaviors at scale</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Technical Frontier</em>: You will work directly on enabling the next frontier of AI in real production settings</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Remote-friendly</em> with a strong engineering culture and a fully distributed team.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><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></span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Anticipated Base Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$197,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$307,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong><em>In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:</em></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>401(k) Plan:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Includes a 6% company match.</li> <li><strong>Equity:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Company stock options.</li> <li><strong>Insurance Coverage:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.</li> <li><strong>Benefit Start Date:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.</li> <li><strong>Well-Being Support:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Employee Assistance Program (EAP).</li> <li><strong>Time Off:</strong> <ul> <li><strong>Exempt Employees:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.</li> <li><strong>Non-Exempt Employees:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>On-Site Perks:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.</li> <li><strong>Parental Leave:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Generous paid parental leave programs.</li> <li><strong>Work Environment:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.</li> <li><strong>Growth Opportunities:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.</li> <li><strong>Relocation Assistance:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Provided for eligible roles.</li> <li><strong>Annual Discretionary Bonus:</strong> Provided for eligible roles.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>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.</strong></p> <p> </p></div>