AI Research Engineer
Agility Robotics
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Oregon • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PythonPyTorch
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing and deploying learning-from-demonstration
- Strong programming skills in Python, with proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Experience with modern learning-from-demonstration tools like DiffusionPolicy
- Experience with robot data collection, training, and testing on hardware to perform manipulation tasks.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment to deliver safe, high-quality software.
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field (Bonus Qualification).
- Publications in top ML or robotics conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, CoRL, RSS, ICRA) (Bonus Qualification).
- Familiarity with robot simulation environments (e.g. Mujoco, Isaac Sim) and sim-to-real transfer techniques (Bonus Qualification).
- Experience with modern reinforcement learning techniques for locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control (Bonus Qualification).
- Experience with writing performant, high quality software in C++ (Bonus Qualification).
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Pythondeep learningPyTorchimitation learningreinforcement learningC++robot data collectionmanipulation taskssimulation environmentssim-to-real transfer
Soft skills
collaborationfast-paced environmenthigh-quality software
Certifications
MS in RoboticsPhD in RoboticsMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science