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Senior Staff Data Scientist, Robotics
Agility RoboticsRemote · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$218,000 – $340,000
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What this role is
This role leads data science strategy for a robotics company operating humanoid robots in real-world facilities, building predictive models for hardware reliability, fleet performance, and manufacturing quality. It suits experienced data scientists comfortable with messy operational data who want to drive technical direction across a cross-functional organization and see their work deployed in physical systems.
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What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years applying data science to real-world problems
- Master's or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Engineering, Physics, or equivalent professional experience
- Prior work in robotics, autonomous systems, hardware, IoT, industrial, or manufacturing
- Expertise in reliability/survival analysis, time-series, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, or causal inference
- Production-quality Python and SQL
- 3+ years as technical lead or senior IC on cross-functional teams mentoring data scientists and setting direction
- Cross-functional partnership experience with hardware, embedded, manufacturing, and business teams
- Experience with large-scale, messy, multi-modal operational data from sensors, telemetry, logs, and event streams
- USA work authorization
Nice to have
- PhD with coursework or experience in reliability engineering, survival analysis, or applied statistics
- Familiarity with fleet operations, RaaS unit economics, or SRE metrics
- Exposure to manufacturing quality systems, end-of-line testing, SPC, or yield analytics