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Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception

Agility Robotics· Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Salem, OR; Pittsburgh, PA; Fremont, CA)$238k - $372kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff AI Software Engineer, Perception to own technical vision and system architecture for how Digit perceives and stays safe in dynamic environments. Hybrid/Remote role with US offices in Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision and system architecture for Perception that enables safety and efficiency, defining how Digit will perceive and reason about humans and hazards as it expands from structured work cells into open, dynamic environments
  • Analyze key architectural tradeoffs across sensing modalities, model design, redundancy, and compute budget, balancing safety, latency, and real-world robustness
  • Stay hands-on with development to prototype, validate, or build critical pieces yourself
  • Partner with functional safety and systems engineering to define the safety case strategy, identifying what architecture and evidence will be required
  • Support failure mode and hazard analysis at the system level, shaping which risks the architecture must design around
  • Evaluate emerging research and technology, and decide what's worth adopting into future robot architectures
  • Set standards for verification and validation of ML-based perception systems, especially for rare and safety-critical scenarios
  • Collaborate across navigation, controls, and hardware to make sure the perception architecture serves the whole robot
  • Act as a senior technical mentor and partner to engineers and technical leads across the organization, and represent the architecture to executive leadership, partners, and customers as needed

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Demonstrated experience architecting ML/perception systems for safety-critical or safety-rated contexts — human detection, functional safety, automotive or 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
  • A track record of setting technical direction at an organization level
  • Publications in your field are a plus (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA preferred)

Skills

Required:Perception system architectureSensing modalities tradeoffsML for roboticsSystem-level safety

Benefits

  • 401(k) Plan with 6% company match
  • Equity: Company stock options
  • Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability
  • Benefit Start Date: Eligible on first day
  • Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Time Off: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays (Exempt); 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 holidays (Non-Exempt)
  • On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week with snacks (Salem and Pittsburgh)
  • Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave
  • Work Environment: Flexible work arrangements
  • Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement
  • Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles
  • Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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