AR
$216,000 – $337,000
Listed on Agility Robotics’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
This role leads the motion planning architecture for humanoid robots deployed in real-world warehouses and factories, requiring someone with deep expertise in trajectory optimization, collision avoidance, and multi-DOF manipulation systems. You'll set the technical direction and work across perception, controls, and autonomy teams to solve the hardest problems in commercial robot deployment at scale.
Our summary, not Agility Robotics’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- High-DOF robot manipulation algorithm development and deployment
- Real-world commercial mobile manipulation robot deployment
- Sample-based motion planning, trajectory optimization, and MPC in production
- Planning and optimization under geometric and kinodynamic constraints
- Advanced mathematics in search and numerical optimization
- Modern C++ (C++17/20) and Python for real-time, multithreaded robotics
- Architecture of large-scale autonomy systems with clean interfaces across perception, estimation, planning, and control
- Technical leadership on complex robotics systems with mentoring experience
Nice to have
- Humanoid or humanoid-like robot experience
- Loco-manipulation planning
- Whole-body model predictive control or trajectory optimization
- Task and motion planning under uncertainty
- Machine learning or offline trajectory optimization for online planning acceleration
- Perception and scene understanding for motion planning
- Publications in top robotics venues (RSS, ICRA, IROS)