Agility Robotics is seeking a Staff Robotics Hardware Architect to help define and develop high-performance, system-integrated hardware architectures for humanoid robots, addressing complex challenges across logistics, manufacturing, and beyond.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in robotics hardware design, architecture, or simulation, with deep exposure to integrated electromechanical systems.
- Strong background in multibody kinematics, dynamics, and mechanism-level physics.
- Proficiency in Python, including numpy/scipy, symbolic modeling (e.g. SymPy), and numerical methods for system simulation and trade studies.
- Demonstrated experience developing or contributing to hardware architecture in robotics systems, particularly high-DOF or legged platforms.
- Familiarity with physics simulation tools such as MuJoCo, Gazebo, PyBullet, or similar, and how to interface them with hardware/system design workflows.
- Working knowledge of electromechanical actuation, sensors, embedded compute, and hardware/software interfaces.
- Experience with humanoid or bipedal robotic systems.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and evolution of system-level hardware architecture for Agility’s humanoid platforms, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Model robotic system behavior using Python-based tools to inform design tradeoffs, spanning kinematics, multibody dynamics, actuation physics, thermal loading, and structural behavior.
- Lead or support trade studies on key architectural decisions (e.g. actuator schemes, joint topology, sensor placement, compute integration), balancing competing constraints such as mass, complexity, manufacturability, and safety.
- Build and maintain analytical and parametric models to simulate full-body behavior, validate architecture choices, and identify failure modes or performance bottlenecks early in development.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including controls and software, to ensure modeling aligns with real-world system performance and that hardware/software integration supports intended use cases.
- Support requirements decomposition and traceability in partnership with systems engineering and V&V teams.
- Participate in FMEA/FMECA, safety reviews, and hazard analysis activities related to hardware systems.
Other
- This position is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with regular travel to our headquarters in Salem, OR, typically one trip per month on average.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally across disciplines.
- Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
