Staff AI Research Engineer

Agility Robotics is pioneering a new era of automation with their commercially deployed humanoids that enhance human potential. They are seeking a Staff AI Research Engineer to drive research direction, mentor junior engineers, and develop advanced methods for robot learning and deployment. The role involves establishing research standards and collaborating with teams to ensure effective implementation of learning policies.

Responsibilities:

• Establish team-level standards for research execution, including experiment tracking, evaluation protocols, and model benchmarking
• Mentor and guide junior AI research engineers through project design, experiment execution, and technical problem solving
• Drive alignment across AI Research and Robotics teams on methods, evaluation, and deployment readiness for learned policies
• Review experimental design, code, and results to ensure rigor, reproducibility, and alignment with research goals
• Help onboard new researchers and accelerate their effectiveness in robot learning and experimental workflows
• Design, train, and deploy robust policies for locomotion, manipulation, and dynamic interactions with the environment
• Develop core reinforcement learning infrastructure, including scalable training pipelines and evaluation frameworks
• Design and implement new simulation environments and tasks to support training and deployment of control policies
• Develop, design, and test imitation learning methods
• Collaborate with Robotics Software and AI engineering teams to develop policies which can be transferred to production