Software Engineer, Teleoperation

Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we’re pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI team, you will architect and build production-quality teleoperation systems that enable Digit to execute complex whole-body manipulation tasks in real-world environments. You will work closely with AI, controls, hardware, and operations teams to create a scalable platform for high-quality human demonstration data collection. Your work will directly enable our ability to scale up the world’s first production humanoid robot fleet and revolutionize the labor market.

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the teleoperation system, from operator input through real-time robot execution, ensuring low latency, predictable behavior, and clear system boundaries
• Integrate and optimize real-time control, streaming, and communication paths to meet measurable latency and bandwidth targets
• Design and implement scalable teleoperation interfaces, including VR, motion capture, and other modalities, to enable high-quality manipulation and locomotion demonstrations
• Develop comprehensive validation strategies in simulation and on hardware, including performance benchmarks, fault handling, and regression testing
• Analyze teleoperation and demonstration data to improve operator efficiency, system responsiveness, and task success rates
• Anticipate future robot hardware and sensor changes, and design systems that can adapt to new interfaces and capabilities with minimal architectural disruption

• 8+ years of experience in robotics or real-time systems, with a demonstrated track record of delivering reliable, production-quality software
• Deep understanding of real-time control systems, motion retargeting, and rigid body dynamics
• Experience designing low-latency communication and streaming systems for real-time applications
• Strong systems intuition with the ability to trace performance issues across software, networking, and hardware boundaries
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with a data-driven approach to performance validation and system reliability
• Hands-on experience integrating human input systems such as VR, motion capture, wearable devices, or other operator interfaces
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across AI, controls, hardware, and operations teams

• Experience building applications with real-time rendering or XR frameworks such as Unity, Unreal, Godot, SteamVR, or OpenXR
• Experience with advanced 3D visualization techniques such as neural radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, or other scene reconstruction methods
• Familiarity with large-scale data collection pipelines for learning from demonstration

This is a hybrid position based out of one of our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont offices.

$222,000—$346,000 USD

In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:

• 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…