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.
About the Role
We are looking for a graduate-level Robotics Software Engineering Intern to join our Skills team at Agility Robotics. This role is focused on developing robot behaviors that are robust, reusable, and easier to generalize across tasks and robot platforms. You will work on hands-on robotics problems at the intersection of behavior planning, software integration, and robot execution, with opportunities to validate your work in both simulation and on hardware.
Key Responsibilities
- Help develop and maintain robot behaviors used in real-world workflows
- Prototype and evaluate new behavior planning strategies or execution logic
- Apply ideas from your academic research or prior projects to explore improvements in behavior design, robustness, or performance
- Collaborate closely with full-time engineers to translate experimental ideas into production-quality robotics software
- Contribute to software interfaces and abstractions that make robotics behaviors more modular and reusable
- Analyze logs and failures to diagnose behavior and system issues
- Run experiments in simulation and on hardware to evaluate behavior performance
About You
- Currently pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with a focus on robotics
- Comfortable programming in Python (experience with C++ is a plus)
- Excited about building real robot behaviors, not just running simulations
- Interested in behavior planning, robotics software architecture, and systems integration
- Familiar with robotics concepts such as manipulation, motion planning, computer vision, navigation, kinematics, and control
- Curious, hands-on, and motivated to understand why robots fail in the real world
Bonus Qualifications
- Exposure to robotics middleware such as ROS
- Exposure to motion planning frameworks such as MoveIt
- Experience with simulation tools used in robotics development (Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet)
- Experience designing and building ROS drivers or interfaces for robot hardware
- Experience testing or debugging autonomous systems on real robots
- Familiarity with behavior trees, state machines, task planning, or related execution frameworks
- Prior internship, research, or project experience involving physical robotic systems
This is an onsite internship at our office in Pittsburgh, PA - minimum 4 days/week onsite.
Duration: Internship (3-6+ months, flexible)
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 Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
- Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.
All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.
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Agility Robotic's legged locomotion expertise is built on a history of academic research and scientific breakthrough. We're here to build robots for good. Robots that help businesses and people thrive.
