Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.
Agility Robotics is building the future of work through humanoid robots that operate in human environments. The Data Platform team builds the data infrastructure that powers everything from fleet operations and hardware reliability to business analytics and machine learning. We enable engineers across robotics, perception, and product teams to derive insight from the vast quantities of telemetry and log data generated by our robots in the field.
About The RoleWe are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and help shape the foundation of data-driven operations at Agility. In this role, you’ll work closely with robot software and hardware teams(among others) to design, curate, and maintain high-quality datasets that enable analytics, debugging, and fleet-scale insights.
You’ll bridge the gap between raw robot data and actionable information — working both on-robot data generation and in the cloud ingestion and processing pipelines. You’ll design transformations, author pipelines, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable and queryable data products for hardware reliability, system health, workflow metrics, and root cause analysis.
What You’ll Do- Collaborate with robot software and hardware teams to define, collect, and curate data needed for analytics and debugging.
- Develop and maintain ETL pipelines that transform raw robot logs and telemetry into structured datasets using Spark, Airflow (or equivalent orchestration tools), and AWS data services.
- Contribute to on-robot data production workflows to ensure high-fidelity, well-structured data capture.
- Design derived datasets and transformations across Avro, Parquet, and other sensor data formats to power fleet operations, reliability analysis, and business metrics.
- Implement data quality checks, schema evolution, and metadata management practices using our internal Data Registry and cataloging systems.
- Work closely with the ingestion and storage services that move robot data into the cloud (S3-based data lake).
- Collaborate with internal consumers — reliability, analytics, and ML teams — to design efficient data models for their workflows.
- Occasionally contribute to shared libraries or APIs in Python, Java, or C++ to support data capture and consumption.
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role building and maintaining production data pipelines.
- Strong proficiency in Apache Spark or equivalent distributed data processing frameworks.
- Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or other data orchestration systems.
Proficiency with data formats such as Avro, Parquet, and structured/numeric datasets. - Solid understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality best practices.
- Good intuitions of how to model datasets logically and partition them physically for optimal query performance, both for analytical query engines and for playback or root-cause-analysis(e.g. ReRun, Foxglove etc)
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java and/or Scala.
- Experience with AWS data stack (S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, etc.) or similar cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working with vision data pipelines(e.g. Images, video, depth) and building derived datasets from them.
- Comfort working cross-functionally with software, hardware, and analytics teams in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with robotics vision data (RGB, depth, point clouds, or perception outputs) and how to process, store, and query them efficiently.
- Familiarity with C++ and willingness to contribute to lightweight logging or data serialization libraries.
- Exposure to large-scale robotics data, including high-frequency and high-fidelity sensor, telemetry and vision streams.
- Experience with data catalog systems and metadata management.
- Familiarity with data versioning or immutable dataset design (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake)
- Join a small, high-impact team building the data foundation for humanoid robotics.
- Work at the intersection of physical systems and large-scale data infrastructure.
- Collaborate with talented roboticists, software engineers, and data scientists shaping the future of automation
This is a fully remote role with the option to work hybrid if a commutable distance from our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Bay Area offices.
Full-time Employees are eligible for Benefits:
- 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
- Equity: Company stock options.
- Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
- Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Time Off:
- Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
- Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.
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