Agility Robotics

Staff Release Manager

Agility Robotics

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: California, Oregon, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

PythonSDLC

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end release process for the humanoid robot platform, ensuring seamless coordination across software, firmware, hardware, and AI subsystems.
  • Establish release management as a strategic capability, enabling Agility to ship confidently and frequently while maintaining operational excellence in deployed customer environments.
  • Define release scope, objectives, and timelines in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Field Operations teams.
  • Develop comprehensive release plans that account for multi-subsystem dependencies, customer deployment schedules, and risk mitigation.
  • Coordinate release activities across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, AI, and safety teams to ensure synchronized execution.
  • Manage release cadence to balance rapid innovation with stability requirements for production deployments.
  • Establish and enforce standardized release processes including configuration management, change control, and version management.
  • Implement quality gates and release criteria that ensure functional safety, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness.
  • Define and maintain release policies, documentation standards, and traceability requirements.
  • Drive issue triage and resolution tracking across teams, ensuring critical defects and field-reported issues are prioritized, resolved, and verified before release.
  • Establish clear release acceptance criteria based on issue severity and customer impact, maintaining accountability for issue closure and verification.
  • Partner with Systems Engineering and Test teams to develop comprehensive validation strategies for each release.
  • Ensure thorough integration testing across hardware-software-AI subsystems to validate functionality, performance, safety, and reliability.
  • Coordinate field readiness assessments including deployment scenario validation and customer acceptance criteria.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration to resolve defects, integration issues, and regression failures.
  • Coordinate release deployment to customer sites, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal operational disruption.
  • Establish rollback procedures and contingency plans for production environments.
  • Analyze field performance data and customer feedback to inform release quality improvements.
  • Support incident response and post-deployment issue resolution.
  • Drive continuous improvement of release management processes, tools, and automation.
  • Establish and track key release metrics (cycle time, defect escape rate, deployment success rate, rollback frequency).
  • Implement best practices for release automation, CI/CD integration, and deployment orchestration.
  • Foster a culture of quality, transparency, and continuous learning across release activities.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of release management experience for complex integrated systems involving hardware, firmware, and software.
  • Proven track record managing releases in robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, or similar safety-critical domains.
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional teams through complex product development and deployment cycles.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements.
  • Deep understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), configuration management, and version control best practices.
  • Strong familiarity with systems engineering tools and processes (requirements management, MBSE, traceability).
  • Experience with release automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment orchestration tools.
  • Working knowledge of configuration management tools (DOORS, Jama, Cameo, or similar).
  • Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash/Shell) for automation and data analysis.
  • Experience with version control (Git), issue tracking (Jira, GitHub), and build systems.
  • Understanding of verification and validation principles for safety-critical systems.
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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
release managementsoftware development lifecycle (SDLC)configuration managementversion controlrelease automationCI/CD pipelinesscripting languages (Python, Bash/Shell)verification and validation principlesissue trackingbuild systems
Soft skills
cross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingaccountabilitycontinuous improvementcommunicationadaptabilityleadershipstrategic planningrisk managementcustomer focus