Agility Robotics is looking for a VP, Software Infrastructure to own and drive forward the core software systems, platforms, and developer tools used throughout their robotic platforms, IoT accessories, cloud platform, and AI/MLOps platform. The goal is to support and develop the infrastructure technology roadmap for robotic solutions and ensure their execution.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience delivering production robotics systems, ideally with real-world deployment at scale
- 15+ years of experience in robotics software, including at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles
- Deep expertise in multi-language software build systems (e.g. bazel, cmake, ament/colcon) as well as language-specific tools (e.g. npm, uv), for packaging and distribution
- Expertise in AI/ML platform development, including training, debugging, and practical real-world improvement for perception and controls models
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining edge AI/ML models in production
- Expertise in both embedded and enterprise SDLC principles and best practices
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Mentor and develop high-performing AI, Robotics, and Cloud Engineering departments
- Define and lead implementation of company-wide software development strategy
- Lead the implementation of robot and cloud CI/CD for scalable deployments to robot fleets at multiple customer locations
- Manage the robot and cloud platform towards software best practices and compliance with industry standards and regulations
- Lead teams that develop and maintain the OS and software distribution platforms for our cutting-edge robot and cloud ecosystem
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate and update robot core software and dependencies, to improve the reliability and performance of our robotic platform
- Own and drive forward the core software systems, platforms, and developer tools
Other
- Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Work with a hybrid (onsite and remote) team and departments
- Support and exemplify our service culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with executive leadership to define the technical roadmap for the software infrastructure teams to operationalize company objectives
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Excited about building in a greenfield environment
- Excited about working with robotics
- Experience hiring both full time, part time, and contract employees
- Authorization to work in the USA
- Experience in greenfield application development
- Experience working with security technologies including firewalls, SIEMs, and encryption
- Prior leadership in building and maintaining safety-critical or real-time embedded software systems.
- Knowledge of data privacy and security compliance, especially w.r.t. SOC2, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0
