Agility Robotics is seeking a Principal Robotic Hardware Architect to drive the technical vision and hardware architecture of their humanoid robotics platforms.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of robotic system design, particularly humanoid or legged systems, actuator and transmission design, including tradeoffs in mass, structures, fatigue, thermals, actuation, sensing, power, compute, and safety.
- Proven experience in architecting and delivering complex electromechanical robotic systems into field or commercial deployment.
- Strong foundation in robot kinematics, dynamics, controls, and system modeling.
- Experience with simulation tools such as MuJoCo, Gazebo, or equivalent, and integrating simulation into system design and validation workflows.
- Familiarity with functional safety concepts, FMEA/FMECA, and hazard analysis in robotic systems.
- Prior experience architecting full-stack robotics systems in a humanoid, legged mobility, mobile manipulation, or high-DOF automation platform.
- Hands-on experience with perception pipelines, real-time control systems, and safety-rated architectures.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end robotics system hardware architecture, ensuring scalable, and reliable integration of perception, compute, actuation, kinematics, control, and safety systems.
- Provide technical direction and system level architectural leadership to other architects as well as across hardware teams, guiding the design of high-performance robotic subsystems.
- Lead trade studies and architecture reviews across disciplines, balancing performance, functional safety, complexity, manufacturability, cost, and reliability.
- Partner with cross functional teams including software controls and simulation teams to ensure architectural decisions are grounded in system-level modeling, simulation, and performance analysis.
- Collaborate closely with systems engineering, test, and integration teams to ensure architecture translates into testable, traceable requirements.
- Influence long-term roadmap and product direction by translating user needs, field performance, and R&D findings into architectural evolution.
- Represent hardware in cross-functional discussions on control architecture, safety strategy, system diagnostics, and autonomy stack integration.
Other
- 15+ years of experience in robotics hardware development, including at least 5 years leading system architecture or as a chief/principal engineer.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing decisions across multidisciplinary teams.
- PhD or Master's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience mentoring and growing teams of senior engineers and staff-level talent.
- 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.
- Time Off: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches twice a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
