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.
We are looking for a seasoned and technically-knowledgable leader to join our executive team as a VP, Software Infrastructure reporting directly to the CTO. This role is to own and drive forward the core software systems, platforms, and developer tools used throughout our products, encompassing our robotic platforms and their IoT accessories, the cloud platform that manages them, and the AI/MLOps platform that powers both. In this role, you will work closely with peers in the Product and Engineering teams to identify, support, and develop the infrastructure technology roadmap for the robotic solutions that we deploy to our customers, and own its execution. We are looking for a proven leader with a background that spans both physical and cloud software systems.
About The Work- Mentor and develop high-performing AI, Robotics, and Cloud Engineering departments
- Work with a hybrid (onsite and remote) team and departments
- Support and exemplify our service culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with executive leadership to define the technical roadmap for the software infrastructure teams to operationalize company objectives
- Define and lead implementation of company-wide software development strategy
- Lead the implementation of robot and cloud CI/CD for scalable deployments to robot fleets at multiple customer locations
- Manage the robot and cloud platform towards software best practices and compliance with industry standards and regulations
- Lead teams that develop and maintain the OS and software distribution platforms for our cutting-edge robot and cloud ecosystem.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate and update robot core software and dependencies, to improve the reliability and performance of our robotic platform.
- Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience delivering production robotics systems, ideally with real-world deployment at scale.
- 15+ years of experience in robotics software, including at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles.
- Deep expertise in multi-language software build systems (e.g. bazel, cmake, ament/colcon) as well as language-specific tools (e.g. npm, uv), for packaging and distribution
- Expertise in AI/ML platform development, including training, debugging, and practical real-world improvement for perception and controls models
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining edge AI/ML models in production
- Expertise in both embedded and enterprise SDLC principles and best practices
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
- Familiarity with industry-standard tools for software build/release in enterprise environments
- Deep expertise with Robotics, IIoT, or similar distributed device environments in production settings
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Excited about building in a greenfield environment
- Excited about working with robotics
- Experience hiring both full time, part time, and contract employees
- Authorization to work in the USA
- Experience in greenfield application development
- Experience working with security technologies including firewalls, SIEMs, and encryption
- Prior leadership in building and maintaining safety-critical or real-time embedded software systems.
- Knowledge of data privacy and security compliance, especially w.r.t. SOC2, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0
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.
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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