Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception
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Senior Staff AI Engineer defining safe perception architecture for Agility Robotics’ commercially deployed Digit humanoid. Advancing ML systems for dynamic warehouses and manufacturing environments.
Responsibilities:
- Own the technical vision and system architecture for Perception enabling safety and efficiency as Digit expands into open, dynamic environments
- Analyze architectural tradeoffs across sensing modalities, model design, redundancy, and compute budget while balancing safety, latency, and robustness
- Stay hands-on by prototyping, validating, or building critical system components
- Partner with functional safety and systems engineering to define safety-case strategy and required evidence
- Support system-level failure mode and hazard analysis
- Evaluate emerging research and technology for adoption into future robot architectures
- Set verification and validation standards for ML-based perception systems, especially rare and safety-critical scenarios
- Collaborate with navigation, controls, and hardware teams
- Mentor engineers and technical leads
- Represent the architecture to executive leadership, partners, and customers as needed
Requirements:
- 8+ years in machine learning/perception for robotics, with a track record of defining system architecture
- Master's or Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Strong foundation in machine learning, robotics, and intelligent systems
- Experience architecting ML/perception systems for safety-critical or safety-rated contexts, including human detection, functional safety, automotive, robotics, or a comparable regulated domain
- Deep expertise in deep convolutional neural networks, multi-object tracking, data association, supervised learning, and pose estimation
- Experience making system-level tradeoffs across sensing modalities, redundancy, and compute constraints on embedded/real-time hardware
- Track record of setting technical direction at an organization level
- Direct experience supporting a safety case or certification submission
- Experience architecting redundant or diverse sensing systems for safety-rated perception
- Experience architecting perception systems for humanoid or legged robots
- Experience representing technical architecture to regulators, third-party certifiers, or safety auditors
- Substantial experience with FMEA, hazard analysis, and safety case strategy for autonomous or robotic systems
Benefits:
- 401(k) Plan with a 6% company match
- Company stock options
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees
- Benefits eligibility on the first day of employment
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, for exempt employees
- 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually, for non-exempt employees
- Catered lunches four times a week and healthy snacks and refreshments at Salem and Pittsburgh locations
- Generous paid parental leave programs
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs
- Relocation assistance for eligible roles
- Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles
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