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Staff Software Engineer, Hardware Interface

Agilityrobotics • Hybrid- Fremont, CA

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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><h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About The Role</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Agility Robotics is building the future of work through humanoid robots that operate in human environments. In this position, you will own and drive the development of critical low-level software capabilities that power our state-of-the-art humanoid robots, improving the robustness, diagnostics, safety, and scalability of our systems. You will help define technical direction, architect solutions across hardware and software boundaries, and partner closely with cross-functional teams to bring new robotic capabilities from early prototypes into reliable, production-ready systems.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You will also be on the front line of robot development, building up brand-new prototypes and leading complex technical efforts that transform piles of parts into functional, testable systems.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About The Work</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own the design, development, and evolution of C++ software components that power our robots, interfacing with OS drivers and hardware to enable high-bandwidth, low-latency control</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Drive technical direction and architecture decisions for hardware interface software, balancing performance, reliability, maintainability, and scalability</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work with cross-disciplinary teams to solve complex problems involving the integration of software, electrical, mechanical, and robotic systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Debug complex cross-domain problems and establish best practices for diagnostics, observability, and failure handling</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Integrate diverse computing systems through a variety of communication media, such as WiFi, networking, serial, and industrial fieldbus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Write performant, well-tested, maintainable, and well-documented C++ software</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers while raising the engineering bar across the team</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About You</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MS in robotics, computer science, electrical engineering, or related field with 8+ years of industry experience (or equivalent experience)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong expertise writing modern C++ (17, 20) for complex, performance-sensitive systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated ability to design and deliver large-scale software systems with significant hardware/software integration complexity</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10

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