Senior AI Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

The posting, as Agility Robotics wrote it

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.

Agility 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.

Why Join Now

Digit is one of the only humanoid robots deployed in real customer facilities today—at Schaeffler, GXO, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, and Mercado Libre, with 65,000+ hours of real-world operation logged. In June 2026 we announced plans to become the first pure-play humanoid robotics company to trade publicly (ticker AGLT), in a ~$2.5B merger backed by NVIDIA, Amazon, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Foxconn. With $300M+ in orders for Digit and a factory built for 10,000 robots a year, we’re scaling fast—and the policies you build will ship to robots working alongside people in production, not sit in simulation.

About the Role

The AI Controls team builds high-rate learned controllers that let Digit move robustly, efficiently, and safely in dynamic environments. As an AI Controls Engineer, you’ll develop and deploy reinforcement learning policies across humanoid locomotion, whole-body control, and manipulation—integrating perception to enable collision-free, perceptive motion in the real world.

About The Work

• Design, train, and deploy robust RL policies for locomotion, manipulation, whole body control, and dynamic interactions with the environment.
• Integrate perception into RL policies to achieve obstacle-aware, collision-free motion, and perceptive manipulation.
• Develop and maintain core RL infrastructure, including scalable training pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
• Design and implement new simulation environments and tasks to support training and evaluation of control policies.
• Collaborate with on-robot software and deployment teams to ship production-quality policies to Digit.

About You

• 4+ years of experience developing and deploying RL policies for robotics applications.
• Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with a deep learning framework such as PyTorch.
• Experience designing reward functions, tuning hyperparameters, and implementing exploration strategies to solve complex control tasks.

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fit 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 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
• Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 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.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.

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